There were 11 false breaks on an intra-day session to session basis in Yen futures from the start of the Asian session Thursday night through the close of the US session. Due to the election in Japan one might consider not being overly aggressive in the coming Asian session unless it is a clear directional condition.
From Nikkei Asia
8:11 p.m. 50 seats have been confirmed as going to the ruling bloc, with 27 for the opposition. 233 are need for a majority.
8 p.m. Voting closes. The ruling bloc is at risk of losing their lower house majority, Nikkei projected immediately after polls closed based on exit surveys of voters and other factors.
The main opposition Constitutional Democratic Party (CDP) is expected to gain seats in the chamber, as is the Democratic Party for the People, amid public anger at the LDP over a political funds scandal involving dozens of its lawmakers.
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From a GV member after reading my blog article
I like your blog article. Exactly like I work but never thought of it as such
Interesting how you came up with it.
Why You Should Treat Forex Trading as Being in Episodes Not Trends
NAS100 4 HOUR CHART – HEADING FOR THE RECORD HIGH?

Came within 200 pips of its record high, which is exposed aslong as it trades above 20000.
Next week is a key one with megacap tech stocks reporting.
So far no signs of pre-election jitters but always a risk so use 20000 as the level that provide a clue.
A CTA in San Diego California (Southern California Naval Base and beautiful city) reminded me long ago that “markets overshoot.” I am of the opinion that may apply to today’s price activity in some currencies but the dominant trend of say a week time frame has not been broken for them. UsdChf included, where the dominant trend is still the sell side even with the overshoot.
In my view EurUsd remains a buy and has not even overshot the trend yet. I really hope Geo events do not change that because it would also mean stocks get pummeled along with a lot of people’s net stock worth. Fridays tend to have that dynamic quite a bit.
“classic example”
I do not understand the exactitude of what is “classic” example
but in my mind, having seen the up and down price travels today
I was imagining the testing (and failing)m of some specific price points to that of pulling on a tiny hair of sleeping mustiff see if it swiftly comes up to bite or contibue to snore n sleep, just maybe flicking its ear
GVI 3:37 / Friday’s have the particular feature of being end-of day AND end-of-week in FX world
Which means position squaring is the preferred if not dominant dish on the trading menu.
I think the most practical and valuable point in our discussion was the gaging abilty of odds of balance of sellers and buyers both at specific pricepoints as well as time points in the NY trading session which overlaps with London’s end-of-day.
Profit opportunity based on fear ?
Fearing China’s hypersonic weapons, US Navy seeks to arm ships with Patriot missiles
(Reuters) – Fearing China will deploy hypersonic weapons to sink ships in the Pacific, the U.S. Navy is moving forward with a plan to arm some of its vessels with Patriot interceptor missiles, two senior defense officials said.
How many PAC-3 interceptors the Navy will need is uncertain, but overall demand is “through the roof,” said Tom Karako, a missile defense expert at the Center for Strategic and International Studies in Washington.
Lockheed Martin: $563.37, down a bit on account of some issues with f-35
JP and I were chatting offline about our short EURUSD positions
It started out with an AT Directional Indicator pattern indicating up episode was likely over and risk was shifting to the downside.
I said with no stops above EURUSD 1.0838 (only sellers), it seemed to be a matter of patience before moving lower using the logic that
Trend is down
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Once positions are trimmed/adjusted ahead of the weekend Who is going to go long EURUSD ahead of the weekend?
Just so this is not taken a a post in hindsight, I posted yesterday and again earlier to treat a move up as a retracement unless 1.0838 is firmly taken out.

One thing to keep an eye on today is Vix futures. When it gets above 18.60 that is an early warning level and if it trades above 18.70 and holds that is likely when stocks begin to pull back and stick. Side note, in my opinion Vix futures are not an optimal intraday tool in terms of timing but it can certainly be of high accuracy at times especially if other metrics concur.
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