Day 1: We have booked $9.67 in interest. (Can provide the breakdown later) The portfolio equity is currently down around $700-800 due to short-term fluctuations, but this should straighten out in the long-run. The focus here would be to earn the ...

Carry Trade [live progress]

I'm dreaming of 1.2xxx in EURUSD

EURUSD

This portfolio is created at US Open on March 2, 2010

Carry Trade [live progress]

Wow, its been 3 years At the time I started this thread, it was the game of JPY crosses. Since than, crisis, and huge drop in interest rates caused JPY carry trading not to be so much profitable. (by the way, i didn't keep track of the initial ...

Carry Trade [live progress]

the intraday move looks strikingly similar to the huge base Gold has made during its lows. A wedge with lower lows and higher highs... A break below 1.3850/60 will see the pair go to 1.3650s in couple of days With higher probability, a break abve ...

EURUSD

It is 1.4932 from SAXOBANK, which is ALWAYS right! What a move! 100 pips in 10 minutes!

EURUSD

demo is NOT equal to real I bet you cannot afford to lose $40K on a single trade in real world. If you do, you will be bankrupt fairly soon...

MY trades with demo account

checked the recent jpy rally that happened late february. the account set here would have provided around -1100$ swing (gbpjpy would cause -1767$). there seems to be two ways to overcome that: a) place a stop on JPY negative pairs b) include a ...

Carry Trade [live progress]

Beware of the 5700$ + account. The REAL value of the account is the BALANCE! That is, the starting amount + the interest earned. Other amount is actually there because of JPY losing value. However, it is most likely to dissappear long term, in ...

Carry Trade [live progress]

And here is the detailed status of each currency pair used in the carry trade account:

Carry Trade [live progress]

First of all, here is an intermediary update (hence day 4.5 ) Day 4.5: Started with 5000 margin used 3300 Balance: 5746,48 Interest Earning: 98,34 Carry Trade Earning: 648,14 I will try to post screen shots to droll spectators... Here is the ...

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will be posting some detailed screen shots, including detailed profits/losses from each pair carried

Carry Trade [live progress]

Day 4: Started with 5000 margin used 3300 Balance: 5559,48 Interest Earning: 98,34 Carry Trade Earning: 461,14 Interest earned in 4 days reached 100$, with only 3300$ margins used. Thats 3% interest in 4 days, which is 3/4*30*12=270% per year.

Carry Trade [live progress]

Day 3: Balance: 5566 Interest Earning: 81,95 Carry Trade Earning: 484,61

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Day 2: Balance: 5099 Interest Earning: 65,56 Carry Trade Earning: 33,44

Carry Trade [live progress]

lots taken are adjusted according to pip values of each pair, to minimize fluctuations that would be caused by fast market movement.

Carry Trade [live progress]

Off we go with a great start: Day 1: Balance: 5406.09 Change: +406.09 Interest Earning: 49.17 Carry Trade Earning: 356.92 Thats a whopping 8.12% from 5K we started with. (margin used to hold the trades is 3300 $. That would make 12.31% increase from ...

Carry Trade [live progress]

Timeframe is impossible to note. Comm craziness much likely would be seen in Gold/Platinum/Copper/Uranium/Coal/Silver etc. Again, it might be in 2007, or '08, or '09...'15, but most likely sooner than later.

Cable Update (GBPUSD)