Author: Forex Kong

I trade, and I trade well.

I have my bias sure ( as I am generally short humanity and long interplanetary travel ) but that’s beside the point. In order to trade well, one needs to put these things aside. I do my best to remain indifferent to market direction but.. even for us pro’s – this is often easier said than done.

If you look back at the bulk of my writing over the past years..you’ll see that I’ve matured. I’m not as angry as I once was “back in the day” when I first came to fully understand the degree to which markets are manipulated / designed. Now I don’t mean “markets are rigged” as….the stock market is only a simple reflection of human activity/sentiment on any given day ( you can’t rig that! ) but more so “the mechanism” through which we participate. The pre and after market activity for example, the stop runs…the central bank interventions, the media spin etc. All generally geared to rip your face off…and grind your bank account to dust.

I’m cynical to say the least. Can you really blame me?

That being said….I love every single minute of it. It’s my passion and I will never stop.

So here we are at an interesting junction where….I myself am presented with a conundrum of sorts, short of the many years experience and the “current knowledge / abilities” to see myself through.

I don’t want to buy dollars. But I’m going to.

The “old Kong” would have found any and every argument under the sun to justify / support the argument for the “continued demise of the American Dollar as the world’s reserve currency” and while this may hold true on much longer time frames – today’s not the day.

Grow people. Learn from your mistakes. Keep an open mind. Trade like a demon.

Kong getting long USD here tomorrow!

             Forex Kong Gets Long

The ViX trade ( long UVXY at 11.80 ) has spiked 14% this morning alone.

Holding short USD trades against a number of other currencies – still seeing trades climb higher as USD continues to “waterfall” ( remember the “suggested waterfall some days ago? ) as 17 days of longs holding positions – wiped out in a single session.

You’ve  “hoped” and you’ve “held” long positions for a full 17 days now…..almost a full month you will never get back.Poof! Wiped in a single session.

I’m back in “celebration mode” here this morning as things have worked out rather well for ol Kong.

So……

How do I time this stuff?

First of all……I check my emotions  at the door, and don’t take an “emotional stand” on whether markets are moving higher or lower. I don’t give a rats ass…and you shouldn’t either. If you are learning to “trade” then you’ve got to stop thinking about “investing”. You continue to deny that anything can go wrong, and you continue to view “the short side” as some kind of demonic evil. Ridiculous.

You don’t think the big banks and Wall St. big shots get short? Please…..pull your head outta the sand. As much as the media coverage may show you “Carnage on Wall St. as Stocks Slide” – these guys where selling you stock all the way up and “gladly” shift the algorithm’s to “short as f&%k” to see you get cleaned out. You can guarantee it.

I can go on and on about my technical indicators ( only one – The Kongdicator ) as well my general view of the world ( as cynical as it is ) but neither of these will really give you much insight.

There is a “creativity” in all of this, and it’s something that is learned over years and years of study and practice. It’s the currency markets that provide the most “actionable information” coupled with as large a “macro view” as you can muster – in order to see past the news. A little confidence doesn’t hurt either but that my friends – comes later.

Cycles also play a role as human beings generally move as a heard. If you can start to distinguish the patterns / repetition – eventually you’ll win. This also takes time but…is certainly not beyond the learning / capabilities of your average Joe.

For fun why don’t you pull up a chart and try to count the number of days between significant “lows or highs” in any given asset and see if you can find any pattern. If you look hard enough you will see these same patterns / repetitions on any time frame…only that they become less and less reliable the more granular you go.

Anything under a 1H chart is noise…and even the 1H needs close attention.

Give it a go and get back to me. I’m not much for “teaching this stuff” as much as I am with “sharing my activity” but…hey – let’s see if you come up with anything.

       Forex_Kong_Human_Form

Did we not see this coming? Indeed.

The US dollar has put in “yet another” devastating over night session in Asia. Down -65 as EUR hits near term / 6 month highs. AUD/JPY has stalled out below 84.40 ( not bad Kong! ) and the world is a wonderful place. Trades are in the green some 3 weeks after moving sideways across the top….the first “significant move” – USD lowers expected. Kong Krystal ball intact.

Now things get a little trickier as……this may very well be the final daily cycle where The U.S Dollar continues to register “lower lows” and “lower highs” before generating what we would refer to as an “intermediate bottom”. You can push it to the degree that I have ( having been essentially “short USD” for what – weeks / months now? ) but there comes a time where you need to lighten up/ back out / prepare for a change in direction.

I am looking ahead and preparing for just that.

You think I give a shit which direction things go? Not in the slightest ( as I am devoid of these petty emotions ) as long as I’m on the right side of it. It’s called trading last time I looked.

I’m riding USD lower but am already of the mindset that this might be the last short entry for some time.  Get this right people…I’m short USD….and already plotting areas of support / resistance with full consideration that my “next USD trade” may very well be a long position.

Can you wrap your head around this? No waffling. No see-saw. No wishy-washy bullshit, just proper planning and execution.

If you’re not looking ahead. Maybe you’re watching too much T.V.

What are you looking at? Seriously……let me know what you’re looking at ( market indicators / geo news etc..) I want to know.

                             Forex_Kong

The Dollar has now “indeed” swung high and is now making its way towards it’s “next” daily low.

Dollar Swung High

Friday made for a great entries but today will work for you as well.

With USD rolling over this early in the daily cycle we’ve got days to go here so get on you Short shorts! USD headed lower throughout this week.

Everything is moving along as suggested…just slower. Grinding away traders patience, mother market continues to keep you on your toes. A full 10 days now straight across the top as DOW and SPY continue to hang. The Nikkei has pushed “further” than expected, and Gold has not yet given a reason to re enter.

So……I don’t have a trade yet. No biggy but……I do like to stay active. How’d the last 10 days go holding longs? ( No money made ).

I plan to wait a touch longer ’til I see turns in both USD/JPY as well Gold….both in rather “stretched cycles”. As it stands Gold should have formally bottomed days ago so…..everything prolonged. Everything stretched.

So it goes at times….we can only make plans for the future “as we imagine it”.

With the French election out-of-the-way, and now seeing the market reaction as “completely unamused”, I continue to hold tight in cash ’til I see something “convincing” turn my head.

Tech stocks still performing well this a.m as well so no real reason to jump out on the playing field here today!

You get the message. This is setting up to be one of the largest scale moves ( downward ) we will have seen in quite some time. As suggested many, many moons ago…I see the Japanese Nikkei as putting in a “lower high” on very large time frames. This is the market that leads. USD/JPY bounce is gonna flop hard.

I see SP 500 / Dow / Risk Appetite topping out with “near to all time highs” or even “all time highs” with a large-scale / major correction to follow. Can you understand that the investment world at large is “scared sh%tless” with respect to the current geopolitical situation? Let alone the U.S Gov gone broke and now nearing “shutdown” over the weekend.

Remember that pesky “debt ceiling” I was ranting about some months ago? Of course you don’t well…..if these boneheads in Washington don’t get their heads together over the next few days….Government shutdown.

Oh the irony. Trump needs billions for the wall? ( never gonna happen ) and promising tax cuts / infrastructure spending? ( never gonna happen ). The dems and repubs can’t get together on anything “of value” but they suuuuuuure can when it comes time to increase the debt ceiling right? Unreal.

I could just as well jump on this now as this is so telegraphed / so glaring. Short risk. Short USD. Short humanity.

We’re headed lower FAST, and with my profits in gold/ short USD via Forex –  I will purchase enough graphene to build my elevator to space.

                           Future_Kong