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Old 08-03-2008, 03:05 PM
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Originally Posted by condor View Post

My biggest challenge seems to be living in the Pacific time zone. I can't seem to find any way around having to stay up all night to catch the European session. If anyone knows an alternative, I'd really like to hear it!
"Ay, there's the rub"

A difficulty for me as well since I live in the -5 GMT zone.

Pairs can move anytime but generally;
The /jpy pairs seem to move throughout the day because of the US / Asian sessions. Also, take a look back on your hourly charts; alot of the time you'll see a swing roughly the same time of day.

The European session seems to start moving on average from about 1am to about 12pm my time, (10pm - 9am the next morning for you). My answer is to get up at 5am and catch it till it settles down and then keep watching the /jpy pairs the rest of the day.(I'm lucky, I have free time at work).

However you are three hours behind me so you could stay up a little late to catch the beginning and then get up early to catch the end. One way or another, there will be sleep lost (gotta make a sacrifice of some sort to succeed). You just need to figure out when would be good for you.

Hope this helps