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IvanLabrie
Jan 10, 2015 4:04 PM

Short yen pairs: Currency basket setup Short

Canadian Dollar/Japanese YenFXCM

Description

This is the Yen currency basket for this week.
As usual, trail stops at 40 pip profit, and set a BE+5/10 stop for lower risk.
Position size should be small initially, for a whole account 3-5% risk based on all pairs hitting the stop.
You can scale in on the winning trades, and drawdown will be minimal if some turn into losers.

Trade closed: target reached

Comments
iefan
Hi Ivan

Thank you very much for these charts, I'm following them with great interest. Results have been very good. Have a great day. Kind regards Iefan
IvanLabrie
Thanks for the comments iefan, good luck and have a great week!
IvanLabrie
IvanLabrie
Covered 70%, stop at BE+10.
IvanLabrie
Second try, wide stop, 10x leverage total.
IvanLabrie
I'll refrain from trading on Monday and Tuesday from now on.
So the methodology is as follows:

-Perform analysis after the daily bar close, before the Wednesday bar opens.
-Ascertain the relative strength figures, and pick a basket depending on wether there is a valid technical setup in the daily or 4h chart or not.
-Open trades at Asia open, and close them before the NY open the next day (normally you get a 40-50 pip move on each, which would let me move the stop to break even + 10 pips, and close 70% of the position at 40-50 pips profit).

Rinse and repeat!
IvanLabrie
JPY pairs are not playing along nicely, good thing these baskets use small lot sizes. You can find a re-entry to average down the price but depends on the trend. I'd wait a bit, maybe Wednesday will bring good entries.
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