Hello Fellow Traders,Here are Diamonds Trading Signal after-spike trade plan parameters for this release:
Australia Employment Change > Wednesday, February 6th, 7:30pm NY time
| Traded currency pair | : | AUDUSD |
| Initial spike duration limit | : | 20 seconds |
| Initial spike price action threshold | : | 20 pips |
| Triggering retracement percentage | : | 30 % |
| Retracement duration limit | : | 60 seconds |
| Maximum trade hold time after release | : | 15 minutes |
| Stop loss | : | 10 pips |
| Take profit | : | 10 pips |
| Max spread | : | 2 pips |
Trade plan for Diamonds Trading Signal:
- Set up single click execution on your broker platform, and if possible, pre-determine default stop/loss and default take/profit to 10 pips, so that when you click to execute your order, your platform will automatically set your stop/loss and take/profit at 10 pips from your entry price. Do not try this with brokers that don’t offer single click execution.
If your platform does not allow to pre-determine default stop/loss and take/profit, then after entering the trade, simply set the stop/loss and take/profit points manually.
- Pull up either tick, 1-second, 3-second, or 5-second chart, and at 07:29:45pm, so 15 seconds before the announcement, start paying very close attention to the price action of AUDUSD on your chart.
- If between 07:30:00pm and 07:30:20pm, so during the first 20 seconds after the report, you see AUDUSD move up or down by 20 pips or more, then enter in the direction of the initial spike at the very first 30% retracement, but only if your spread at the time of your entry is at 2 pips or less. Set stop/loss at 10 pips, and set take/profit at 10 pips.
The retracement will happen within seconds. Don’t draw anything on your chart, and don’t try to get a perfect entry. As soon as you see approximately 30% retracement on your chart, compared to the initial spike, click to enter without any hesitation.
If the move either up or down was less than 20 pips during the first 20 seconds, then the actual number of the report did not generate sufficient interest in the market, and you simply skip the trade. If your spread at the time of desired entry is more than 2 pips, then skip the trade.
- If by 07:45:00pm, so 15 minutes after the report release, neither your stop/loss nor your take/profit points were hit, then close the trade automatically at market price of the time.
Previous Example: on November 5th, 2012, at 10:30:00pm, Australia Interest Rate number was released, so in the first 8 seconds, the price of AUDUSD spiked up by 38 pips from 1.0369 to 1.0407. Then price started retracing, and within about 45 seconds retraced to 35% level of 1.0393. So you would BUY at 1.0393, set a stop/loss at 1.0378, and set a take/profit at 1.0408. 7 minutes after the report the take/profit was hit yielding 12 pips of profit, given that your spread at the time of the entry was at exactly 3 pips.
Be patient, and do at least 20 “second wave” trades, before getting frustrated and quitting.
Once you become good at it, you will be able to win on average 7 to 8 out of 10 trades.
Keep win to loss ratio at 1:1. Tweak it only after you are consistently profitable with 1:1.
Remember, it does not matter whether you make or lose 10 pips or 100 pips on a trade. What matters is how much money you make or lose on a trade. When risking 10 pips, simply put up 10 times more lots than you would when you risk 100 pips, and at the end you will make or lose the same amount of money. Yes, spread to pips targeted ratio matters, but these news “second wave” moves have such high probability of success that they somehow make up for the very high spread to pips targeted ratio (2 to 10), which is a small miracle in itself.
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Sincerely,
Peter
