13 October 2010

XAU/EUR : Serious Rally Possible

  • Was just toying around with this when I initiated a fresh long at 975 yesterday.
  • Price action and charts today indicate that I might be on to something serious here.  See periscope candles on daily and weekly charts.
  • Added to long at 979.
  • Next action point : Add on break of 995.

4 comments:

ryan said...

Hi TS,

Can I find out, how do you execute this trade? Is it through etf or something?

Tks for your help.

Taichiseal said...

Hi Ryan

Unfortunately there is no ETF (that I know of) to do this.

The way I do it is via 2 outright futures contracts which is certainly not brokerage- or margin- efficient.

Based on Dollar Value,

Buy 1 GCZ0 = USD 137700
Sell 1 UROZ0 = EUR 125000 = 176000
So ratio is 1.28 URO : 1 GC

Normally if it doesn't round up nicely due to limited trading sizes, I would take an outright view on the stub.

Hope this helps.

ryan said...

Hi TS,

Thanks for the explanation. It helps.

Regards

Ryan

Taichiseal said...

Trade not working though ...