Flying Dutchman

A 'new' era of volatility reversals has begun maybe, who knows lol

Is Trump running the FX movements ?
or is it still the same old crew doing what they do best
running entrapments hard and then reversing at the extremes catching new entries off guard again

AND

does it matter
just trade safe & trade well imo

here's a look at yesterday's big'un
GBPUSD
"city of london and wall street enterprise Pty Ltd" ,

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Love him or Hate him, he will always be the Greatest Showman, Step aside P T Barnum

Media is all over him like a rash, listening to his every word.

Hahaa, yes. The media are very thankful maybe lol as the previous replacement couldn’t put a coherent word together for them for what, three years.

Now the media have a new game to play where they can reproduce & regurgitate their own mindless rhetoric for the masses.

And the MM/LPs are also imho thankful for a foil now to blame on the volatility spikes as no one will question market move motives anymore


Business as usual imo, all around a more volatile base maybe

Trade safe, trade well all

Hi TT; I've a few questions....!

1. I've seen 1m, 15 m and 1H charts.
   does the Daily play any role in your "calculation"? (except for all the H&L's etc. that you annotated)
2. In your Bermuda Triangles, price always comes back to the starting point.
   Do you know in advance it will?

Thanks!

Hi onra,

Mate I do have an Mt4 Profile screen where I have nine "tiled" ONE DAY charts, inc my faves GJ & GU, and where I use a zig zag semafor just to show major tops & bottoms that I glance at each morning (to see which pairs are maybe close to turning over) but I don't trade from them at all. Sometimes the tops & bottoms are weeks apart and the zig zag indi also repositions itself as those who use it know well, so there can be a 'new' hi or lo after the last hi or lo if you know what I mean.

I vary it, but I split screen two charts on one monitor for the ONE pair I am currently trading with one as a 5min and the other a 1hr (tightened up one notch with the - minus key) also tightened up a little on the right hand axis to show & include the furthest reasonable (ie within ADR) top & bottom trader attractors.

The concept of the Bermuda Triangle (and cheers to turnip for bringing us that word-narrative hahaa) is yes, it's a return to base starting point happening, but I never know in advance that it will. NO. And also often it completes, if & when it does, outside of my trading window for sleep lol so I may get to see a London one complete but the New York ones I am well into the land of nod so always miss them.

There are concept pdf's I have previously read that discuss them in more detail and try to explain why but in the end I started using (years ago) trade simulators to run through past completed days quickly and I just watch for the where & when (price+ time) these might occur. It is also not just the 2 x opens I mentioned where this can happen and its on all timeframes I also notice. Still, this is not how (or just how) I trade.

There is no one way imo to trade our markets OR one way which is BEST but I have chosen to hang my hat on the TARGET (cheers george ) attractor lines/zones for potential areas of interest as I will assume so have other styles of traders therefore liquidity may change around those points but with no guarantees (ie 100% always) of the direction.

As I have hung my hat so to speak on those attractors therefore I also live or die by that sword of my own choosing hahaa.

Each to their own of course.

All the best onra

Don't forget to mention the zeppelins.....

I love turnips Zeppelin word-narrative

Where did it all begin lol. I mentioned them as Inflection Points, ie breakout imminent, which is the graphic pic on my home page

Not everyone agreed hahaaa as you can see from three posts after this one. Omg what a fun time that was nearly 3 yrs ago explaining it to 'certain' posters
https://www.forexfactory.com/thread/...8#post13936698

This chart pic or its reverse upside down view is pretty much all the market can do, outside of the pretend (?) random periods of aggregation
https://www.forexfactory.com/thread/...2#post13970362

And Kev (Bluesteele's) offerings on the round number/quarters idea
https://www.forexfactory.com/thread/...8#post14161148


And here we are in 2025, still trading the same proxy markets as retailers imo, while interbank conduct the real movements of large amounts of cash by currency (NOT pairs), which is why I sometimes think the blast candles, the volatility candles, are just our retail lower level LPs letting us see the catch up TO where THEIR market really is. Who knows, all just a bit of fun pondering it all.

Trade safe, trade well folks

The first instance I could find of turnip referencing the inflection point shape as a Zeppelin

https://www.forexfactory.com/thread/...8#post14180168

cheers pal

That Zeppelin is a great pattern. That turnip is one smart dude!

Interesting stuff; thanks guys!

A lot of horse trading is going on at those zeppelins, what wyckoff termed Accumulation / Distribution zones.
Eventually a breakout will happen once all orders at those levels are consumed and price will move up or down to the next one.

Same old, same old (yesterday, imho)

Some 'new' day possible attractors

Trade safe, trade well all


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Big RED - Yen Rates announcement today
As usual tentative timing (not all bets are on yet , just j/k Mr U )


This site will often give a "timing" clue in GMT as the moment gets nearer
https://www.forexlive.com/news/japan...r-29-20250123/

trade safe folks , give 'em heaps

Why I love watching the markets.

Someone somewhere looks at PRICE right at Day open.
Then goes swimming for the WHOLE day so far.

Comes back and looks at PRICE again.
And thinks price never moved one inch (well one penny hahaa )

Yet in between, the MM & LPs and many traders have had some fun 'aplenty (or not lol)

The market mechanics, you gotta love em

Trade it safe


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Well the cup of tea just exploded from my nose when I open the charts this morning


What a game is our FX, very impressive City of London Boys & Wall Street Banks (imo, who knows )


I call this chart, Yen Rate Rise Gets Slaughtered

Interesting times


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And so the new day of a new week begins.
And where our month also ends this Friday.
(No more charts till Feb, hopefully )

Trade safe, trade well all.


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Morning is done now for me. They can move price quickly or slowly, move it up or down or all around. Won't matter for me now really, at all.
Back for pre-Franky.

All the best all


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Station to station, areas and zones, double Bermudas, rns to rns, yesterday was just more of the same again (imho)

ie business as usual and hopefully for the ending of the week & new month ahead

trade safe, trade well all



Ending with just a little bit of fun. A quick clip showing that maybe quants & mere life (chart) observers can both achieve success in their own endeavours.

Hi TimeTells, others,

I love the chart examples. Lots of "hits" to session opens especially, some D/W/MN HL, and of course some other targets/attractors.

Is it too much to ask for the indicators you're using, and a chart template? I see plenty that have been posted previously in the thread but it would be rather tedious to figure out which versions you're using (along with settings), and put them together like your charts.

TT, when you post a chart, how much manual notation are you doing? Or are the labels all in the indies?

Source code is appreciated, and as Shabs can attest to, I've been known to make improvements to code that I'm interested in using. (It's even possible you might even be using something I already worked on but lost track of).

Thanks for sharing,
Kent (pips4life)

Yes TT, more trades showing, please!