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Bullish & Bearish Engulfing Bars (Part III)

This is the third article in the series on trading the Bullish and Bearish Engulfing candle stick patterns. Following on from Part I and Part II, we will look at trading the short signals for AUDUSD, EURUSD, GBPUSD, USDJPY, and USDCAD. Let’s recap the results for the long side: We used hourly rolling bars to […]

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Bullish & Bearish Engulfing Bars (Part II)

This is the second article in the series of trading the Bullish and Bearish Engulfing candle stick patterns. Following on from Part I, we will actually perform some backtests using the results we found in Part I. In Part I, we split up the analysis for long and short trades separately. Here we will keep […]

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Bullish & Bearish Engulfing Bars (Part I)

Many people ask if there are any particular technical setups that I like to look at and what the best way to trade them is. My all-time favorite heavily involves Support and Resistance levels, and using these as breakout levels. The art lies in finding them and then managing trades appropriately. In this article we’ll […]

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In this article I’ll follow up from Part I, on using the UK Services PMI to trade the GBP. The questions we’ll answer are:
  1. What economic indicators for GBP are out there and which can we use?
  2. How do you set up a macro system?
  3. What does it mean to trade a basket of currencies against GBP, or is there a preferred pair to trade?
Let’s cover the main themes that affect the Foreign Exchange Rate:
  1. Inflation: influences Central Bank behaviour, but also tells us about price increas…
4 Economic Indicators to help your Fundamental Trading of GBP– Part II
I’ve been asked lots of questions as to how to determine the next moves in GBPUSD. There have been many arguments for a bottoming out at the current levels, as well as for a continuation given the strength of the downward move experienced post Brexit. In this article I’ll try to get a handle on possible outcomes, by looking at some fundamental indicators and see where they point to for sterling over the next couple of months. The longer term perspective will be more difficult to gau…
GBP, Brexit, and Fundamentals
This is the second article in the series of trading the Bullish and Bearish Engulfing candle stick patterns. Following on from Part I, we will actually perform some backtests using the results we found in Part I. In Part I, we split up the analysis for long and short trades separately. Here we will keep to this approach. The justification is that there need be no symmetry between the long & short approach. This is especially true for equity systems, where bear markets have distinct dynamics f…
Bullish & Bearish Engulfing Bars (Part II)
In this week’s article I cover the right approach to benchmarking your performance using the standard risk measures out there.  In particular we’ll start out by outlining how the Sharpe Ratio relates to the usual performance measures such as Win/Loss ration or Return/Maximum Draw-Down ratios.  This will allow you to see if you are on track or not, and adjust your trading accordingly. The purpose is to put risk measurement into context and relate your trading statistics to optimal wealth accum…
Risk, Return, and Kill Ratios
EURUSD tick data for the period 28th February 2016 to 4th March 2016. Zip file contains CSV files for each day. The format of the CSV files are: Local Time, Server Time, Server Time Milliseconds, Bid, Ask. The time resolution is in seconds. This means that there can be multiple quotes per second.
Tick Data EURUSD , 20160228 – 20160304, Broker1
It’s only been the fourth trading day of 2016, but there is no shortage of surprises, volatility, and all round mayhem. Today the AUDUSD had two announcements which can be considered relevant. The first was at 00:30GMT, the Building Approvals number, and shortly after 01:15GMT the PBOC rate fixing for the CNY. The first announcement was followed by a slow 10 pip grind to the downside, followed by a retracement to 0.7084. The PBOC announcement was issued at 01:16GMT, on the back of which …
More on Market Dynamics: AUDUSD and the PBOC
BEOB_MT4
As discussed in the articles on Bullish and Bearish Engulfing Bars, this indicator highlights the bars, and allows you to implement those trading strategies. The only input is an offset as to where to put the arrows indicating the bars in pips. This is best placed on an hourly chart.  The indicator will loot at the previous 8 bars, and check to see if the first group of four hourly bars engulfs the previous four hourly bars.  This is then rolled over with every new hourly bar.
Bullish and Bearish Engulfing Bars
Mean Reversion Currency Trading
Mean Reversion trading works for equities; and currencies. We saw in the last article how combining two simple ideas for equities produced a stable system over the last 30 years. Can we repeat a similar analysis for currencies? Yes!  However, be warned.  Currency trading is a different magnitude of difficulty to equity trading.   Currency traders have had a real tough time since 2008 (take a look at the BTOP Barclay Hedge Currency Trader Index). As always it depends which pond yo…
Trading Mean Reversion in Currencies