Hi All,
We’ve stumbled upon a very interesting trading strategy, thats focused on the concept of “Scaling” or “Averaging”. For those that don’t know Scaling occurs when a position reverses on you, and you buy again in the direction of the original trade.
For example, You buy EUR/USD at 1.4200. The price goes down to 1.4180, so you buy again. And if the price goes to 1.4200 again, the first position breaks even, but the second position gains 20 pips.
So here is the strategy:
1.) Trade during the Asia/Australia session to avoid major market movements.
2.) Currencies: EUR/USD & GBP/USD.
3.) Indicators: 4 Fibollinger Bands, Volume, MACD, Support and Resistance
4.) Time Frame: 1 minute & 15 minute.
Since the market for the currencies during the Asian session is relatively stable, they follow nice Support and Resistance levels on the 1 minute chart.
You basically keep your eye on the other indicators, to see if they are following you in the right direction, and then you pull the trigger when the price gets to the Support & Resistance points.
For the indicators on the 1 minute chart, we use Support and Resistance with lookbacks of 50 and 200 candles.
Today (Evening of 2nd September 2009 EST) on the GBP/USD, the price crashed from 1.6300 to 1.6253. Every 10 pips, we would buy along the way down. We ended up making around 80 pips in total on the trade.
This has worked for the past several months, and is recommended for traders who have large margins in their account.
Good luck, and Happy Trading.
Jahanam!!!