I’ve been saying for a while now that I was shorting Global Indices based upon my analysis of the charts and using various vehicles (CFDs, Spread-Betting, DMA & Binaries) to access the market and build positions in line with my view.  I wrote about how at the start of the month I was stopped out […]

Just a quick post on a Binary position that I took recently on the S&P.  I had forgotten about it because I didn’t expect it to move so quickly to target!  I took the position back on the 4th May (position 1 on the chart) after price broke down strongly and broke a weekly trend […]

I’ll take grey hair over algorithms any day

Courtesy of Tradingfloor.com a nice piece on risk management, algos, macro traders and how banks operate.

I had another 2 Binary positions close yesterday.  Both on the NASDAQ.  As always lets cut straight to the chart. NASDAQ – WEEKLY The NASDAQ has been on a bullish tear north for the first 13 weeks of 2012.  It was simply unstoppable and trying to short it would have been futile (not that I […]

Readers who know me well will know that other than Trading & Financial Markets one of my many other interests is Military Aviation in particular Air-To-Air Combat with a special emphasis on the Battle of Britain. As 3rd generation Royal Air Force that shouldn’t come as much of a surprise. On the 24th March of […]

Over the last couple of days I’ve had a few european centric Binary positions closing on me.  Whilst not necessarily taken with the French elections in mind they certainly played a part in their outcome.  One win and one loss.  Lets cover the losing position first: EURUSD After a wild start to 2012 where the […]

Here’s an elegant piece from Brian Lunds blog on StockTwits.  He describes some simple rule for trading a reversal hammer.  Many of the rules fit my own style of trading this price action pattern. http://bclund.com/2012/05/07/5-rules-for-trading-a-reversal-hammer/ Brian’s blog is a good read so you may want to sign-up to his posts. Enjoy Paul

Here’s an update on a Binary Option position that closed on Friday afternoon on the back of a week of good news for AUD short-sellers.  You can read the first part about the initial H&S set-up here.  The second part with an update on the first part of the trade being closed out is here. […]

This week has seen the failure of a Binary No Touch Trade on the Dow Jones and the re-attack of it based on todays poor NFP numbers.  The chart will explain it all.  As always there’s useful debrief points to learn from. 1. The Dow Jones has been in a nice up-trend since early December […]

I’ve mentioned that I had a few longer-term Binary Positions that are running and I thought I’d update you on a position that closed out last night. After many years in decline the USDJPY trend broke with a strong move north from the end of January.  People far smarter than I can explain why it […]