As soon as DD turn up relative to SPY on the day highlighted it was the time to put on the trade. Even if you waited until it went over the 10-day average of the ratio, you would have gotten in with very good risk/reward. You would have had 1% drawdown on the first day's open, then as much as a 19% gain from there to today's high, or a 16% return to the last...
Throughout this entire year, USDCAD has been rallying which can confirmed on the larger timeframes such as monthly, weekly and daily. I'm basing this trade based off of that momentum and on a simple trend-contination setup. As you can see, price has been consolidating this past week and along with all the momentum n volume today coming because of greece, Im...
*We booked a profit of 27 Pips. Even though the spread is from from closing we decided to take the profit and move back into cash. Of course if this spread narrows we will be leaving a lot on the table but we are happy with the gain from a low level risk trade. We will be initiating 1/2 our position in a correlation trade of USD/SGD to USD/JPY. The spread is...
StatArb is one of the most profitable trading strategies employed by trading professionals, Hedge Funds and Proprietary Trading firms. Now the same signals are available for everyone. Green circle is "Buy Spread" when you buy the higher pair and sell the lower pair, red circle is the opposite. "+" and "-" are suggested stop loss and take profit levels. The grey...
Look at the remarkable action around the KEY HIDDEN LEVELS in BP over the past 10 months - There have been multiple tests of the key support lines that provided ideal and low risk entries on pull-backs. Subscribe to "Key Hidden Levels" in the "Marketplace Add-Ons" section of "Indicators" . I'm looking to get long against support down here - I will post my...
There is a big divide here between the performance of the overall market and the performance of KO, Coca-Cola. The way to set up this trade is to go long KO and sell short an equivalent $-amount of SPY shares. Over time, I think that KO will start to outperform the market and this trade will make a profit. If they both go up, we need KO to do better than the...
PAIRS TRADE: Dunkin Donuts versus Starbucks DNKN and SBUX trade in a tight range of about 20% per year (note the blue box at the bottom of the chart) and now DNKN is lagging SBUX by 18%. Upside potential is roughly 10%-15% and risk is 5%. DNKN 44.04 last -0.29 on the day SBUX 74.69 last +0.73 on the day Friday, June 13, 2014 5:43PM EST