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Best Strategy 6E - Net 10p per day

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 traderjcf 
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I'm not greedy...is the best time Asian, London, US session?

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I'm not greedy...is the best time Asian, London, US session?

Not sure if you're also asking for a strategy or just the "best" trading time. I can/have traded them all, and it really depends how you define best, especially given there are no guarantees on consistent performance.

But overall, 6E moves the smallest range during the Asia session, often retracing what NY did, or, moving about 30 pips in one direction and then returning to where it started. London range can be all over the place but you're most often looking at 80-120 pips of late; sometimes the moves are completed prior to any 9:30am London news but just as often they are not. You have your fakeouts, you have constant buyer/seller and level defending going on. Pre New York can see a shakeout, or not. London declines had for a time been reversed thus bought-up by NY at some point (after a shakeout). The NY session tends to be closely correlated to the ES and equities, and will often add that much more to the average daily range.

I realize that doesn't help much. I suppose it depends on how well one can apply a strategy - 10 pip per day can be had in either and much more. Strategies abound - perhaps a strategy using POCs or today's opening and closing levels plus previous day's closing and opening levels can be a place to start.

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I generally trade the Euro either at the Europe open or the US open, maybe for 1-2 hours each. Depends if I am up or not of course for the Europe open.

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That's tough on eastern time zone = 3am? but worth it if its less choppy...this 8pm -10pm zone seems to be wild time

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there's no 'best time' traderjcf

personally I think one's trading hours should be based on one's lifestyle and family
commitments rather than thinking there's a particular session or hours in a session
or particular hours in a particular session that's going to guarantee a large price move

if you don't have one, download a MetaTrader 4 demo program and install the zipped
indicators in: C:\Program Files\Broker\experts\indicators

i-P Time - displays vertical lines: green line is the start of the available time I have to
trade and the red line bedtime - I'm on the West Coast
NB: you have to use the MT4 Moscow time when setting the lines, also re-configure
chart below to ESTime
MT4: 00 01 02 03 04 05 06 07 08 09 pm | am 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23
PST: 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 pm | am 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 1 2 - - - - needs re-spacing

i-SessionLn - displays rectangles of the Asian, Euro, US sessions, either background
filled or just a dotted outline - white on the chart for the Euro session
the gap between the Pink US and Goldenrod Asian sessions is one hour the closure
of the Globex markets

Grid_v2 - horizontal lines display any pip amount between them - 20 on the attached 60min chart

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i found this stuff on tradeeurofx.com they are dedicated to Euro trading as the name shows it and therefore they know what they are talking about


There is a thread for this site on nexusfi.com (formerly BMT) already

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Personally I love the London open for EUR/USD or 6E. Only for the first hour and a bit though.

NYC open is nice too, but I find I perform better during London's open (historically speaking, I can't argue with the numbers.) Plus I'm so focused on equities during the NYC session, especially during equities open and the first two hours of equities trading, so I can't give spot fx the attention it deserves during that time.

Sadly though, since I'm in the EST timezone, I hardly get a chance to trade the London open as I can't operate on just a few hours of sleep during the week (need to be fresh and rested on weekdays.) A friend of mine does it, sleeps early, wakes up for london, trades for two hours, then sleeps some more before work in the morning, but such a schedule would make me a zombie. lol

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In my experience, EUR/USD moves very technically between the Frankfurt open (2 AM EST) and the New York open (8 AM EST). After that, it becomes a bit wild because of many news reports during the early hours of the New York session that can drastically affect the outlook on the US Dollar. Keep in mind that the spot forex market is used primarily as a means for large firms to hedge risk, execute foreign transactions, etc., so it's not surprising that small news can mean big moves.

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My "best time of day" for this, for me, is from 1.00pm (UK time) for 2-3 hours, i.e. after the NY open. The equivalent time-period after the London open is my close-behind second-best time. I've found the Asian session, when I've looked at it, far less reliable and interesting.

(I actually trade spot EUR/USD rather than 6E, but they're very closely correlated.)

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