During today’s pre-London session and then into the first hour of the London open, we were dealing with some short term British Pound weakness and Japanese Yen strength, a quality setup for a GBP/JPY short, that was very easy to plan for trade entries and targets prior to pre-London beginning. In this video I show why I looked for these setups to begin with, and how both I went about initial entries prior to the London session I coach, along with some reloads we took together in the London session with the class. The last of which ended up being stopped out break even, but over all a nice Monday starting over 100 pips, nothing wrong with that.

I have not made a video in a couple weeks, I apologize for that, just been trading extended hours lately, this video shows that as I rambled on a bit. Will tighten things up in the video’s to come, see you all tomorrow.

FXBootcamp London Currency Coach-
Christian Stephens

The EUR/USD had been showing Lower High’s for quite a while now on the 4 hour charts, forming a very distinct falling trend line. Just before London got started today we break this trend line. Typically, once something like this occurs, it’s very commonplace that a retest of this area is a high probability entry point back in the direction of the break, even if just for the short term. So let’s see, here we are at London market opening, after breaking this trend line and now sitting on the retested zone. Long off of this zone was certainly the plan, it was just a matter of the actual trigger and stop placement after that. In this video I show you how we built this trade plan to begin with, waited for our setup to be met, and took action. This trade ended up extending well for roughly a 1-3 risk vs. reward ratio for about a 70 pip winning trade. Nice way to end the month/quarter!

FXBootcamp London Currency Coach-
Christian Stephens

After an amazing week of shorting everything GBP last week, Asia seemed to have found a temporary bottom, evident by a series of higher lows taking place everywhere. This continued in early pre-London, and ultimately into the London open. While the directional trend may not be over, there were certainly enough pips between support entry points and initial resistance to build conservative trade plans on the counter trend today, at least until this very identifiable resistance, in which new shorts could be in order. So in this video, I show very clearly first what got me into a couple shorter term GBP/USD longs in pre-London, and beyond that the complete trade plan for the long we took in today’s London FXBootcamp session together, where we took profit, why, and how we shorted this resistance attempting to continue the recent short tone once reaching this level.

Hope everyone had a great weekend, and fantastic Monday trading London.

FXBootcamp London Currency Coach-
Christian Stephens

As we opened London today we had many clues on the EUR/GBP 1 hour, 4 hour, and daily charts that we were due for, at least on the short term, a modest pullback to the downside from it’s recent strength indicating potential short term British Pound strength. Couple this with the USD starting to dive down another notch, as witnessed on the USD Index last night, we had ourselves the perfect marriage for a Forex trade, a strong currency (GBP) vs. weak currency (USD. With this information in hand we began to build trade plans longing the GBP/USD off of support, at least until we hit the weekly central pivot point. In this video I break down how we went about planning and ultimately executing this trade off of a Fibonacci pullback support area just as the London market opened for a 45 pip or so end result. Not the biggest trade in the world, but the London session was speckled with 30-50 pip trades tonight, ad let’s face it, those add up well!

FXBootcamp London Currency Coach-
Christian Stephens

While we continued to short the (insert your favorite yen pair here) during the Pre-London and into early London sessions, we found ourselves reaching an important area of support on the USD/JPY not too long after the London open. Even though everything on the Yens looked to continue to the downside, this support was very close to the big psychological level of 90.00, along with a multitude of overlapping support (Long term 78.6 fib, trendline, S2 pivot, etc.) all being struck just after a major market open. While we did not expect any kind of instant reversal, there certainly were reasons to look for clues of profit taking around this support and possibly translate that into some short term longs on GBP/JPY. At least until we could find dynamic resistance to re short the thing. So in this video, I highlight how we took profit on our original short pre-London, longed off support using a higher low for entry, took profit around 50 pips and re shorted for 50 pips, only to long a 15m Higher Low again, and shoot for more pips to the upside. It was a difficult session to hold onto anything but if you were nimble the pips were there for the taking.

FXBootcamp London Currency Coach-
Christian Stephens

As the pre-London session ended today, and we ere taking profit on our GBP/USD and GBP/JPY shorts at support, our attention quickly turned to the London Open. Here we are yet again, at support on these two pairs Right as the London market opens. I prefer to not counter trend, but when you find yourself at support across the board at a major market open, it’s hard not to look for clues of buying off this support, I mean who wants to short at support right? In this video I zoom into the GBP/USD and cover as clear as I can the how’s and why’s of this counter trend Long trade plan. It became a simple matter of awaiting a higher high, then locking in break even, done deal, no risk trade then. After that we moved on about our business on other trade idea’s while the pair slowly inched it’s way to our target over the next few hours. Eventually we nailed our target for a 60′ish pip counter trend trade, and even found reasons to short at the beginning of London lunch. No real major news releases tonight led to a very predictable onslaught of ‘Technical’ trading, the money truly was made in the waiting tonight, on this trade shown as well as several others.

FXBootcamp London Currency Coach-
Christian Stephens

Today we found ourselves continuing our British Pound weakness and Japanese Yen strength from Pre-London, into our London open. This led us to marry Strong (JPY) with Weak (GBP) and focus our attention on the GBP/JPY pairing. All we could do for the first hour of the London open was build our trade plan for a continuation short off of a pullback to resistance. This area was not difficult to find however, as we had a 38.2% Fibonacci pullback level, 15minute 21ema, hourly 5ema, and the 4 hour 5ema all in the same 155.50-60 zone. The real work here was sitting on your hands and awaiting the entry zone, with plan to short firmly in hand. What added to this difficulty is within minutes of reaching our entry zone the British MPC meeting minutes were just about to be released. So you had to have your plan firmly pre-determined, along with stop loss etc in case our entry zone was hit. Sure enough the news popped us up the additional dozen pips to our overlapping massive resistance, and did not stay there very long. In fact just long enough to execute our plans, no hesitation allowed. Within 1 minute you were 70 or so pips in profit, and quickly protecting some of that. This trade plan was setup exactly how we do every day, the only thing different was right when the area was being achieved, we had the added volatility of a news release to deal with. I am sure this scared several traders away from this setup, but everything about this trade plan was technical, you must have trust in your plan win or lose.

Overall high quality setup, that required ACTION at the pre-determined zone, and those who did so were rewarded with 120-130 pips or so, gotta love it.

FXBootcamp London Currency Coach-
Christian Stephens

As has been the theme for a while now, we opened London continuing a long GBP/USD, and long GBP/JPY that began in early pre-London trading. As London opened, we found ourselves retracing perfectly to our Fibonacci retracement zone along with the 15m 21ema. This pullback was happening without actually reaching resistance at 6610-6615 first, so we felt very confident in building a trade plan for longing off support, targeting at least this resistance. To make things even more interest, as depicted in the video, we observed very obvious MACD divergence with price action on bot the EUR/GBP and GBP/CHF 2 hour charts, which both were indicating British Pound strength was likely on the way for a bit. Our first pullback entry netted us maybe 30 pips tops before making an overall lower high and stopping us out +15 pips. In this video I highlight in great detail how we built the next long trade plan for both an aggressive style entry, and a more conservative entry, once we respected support the next time. Sure enough we broke the trap, and ultimately reached our target for a nice 70′ish pip trade for most, and even made it past resistance for those that did not take profit.

The money is made in the waiting folks!

FXBootcamp London Currency Coach-
Christian Stephens

Just as we opened the London session today, we immediately found ourselves in a beautiful price trap on the GBP/JPY on a 15m/hourly basis. This trap had a very precise bottom at 157.29, which just so happened to be overlapping our new hourly 21ema, and happening exactly at the London open. Also we were bouncing off a 61.8 Fib zone and 2hr 21ema on the USD/JPY to the upside, and the EUR/GBP was starting to fall off yet another lower high itself, all at the same time. So let’s see, we have correlation telling us likely Japanese Yen weakness, British Pound strength, at a precise trap bottom, solid looking support on the 1 hour chart (21ema) all exactly at the London open. Hmm.. Long GBP/JPY anyone? What was so nice about this entry was it’s risk. The horizontal trap bottom/21ema overlap was so precise at 157.29 that one only needed to wait for any green on a short term chart around that area, we used a 1minute there, and place a buy order on GBP/JPY with a stop as close as 10-15 pips below, targeting a trap projection about 120 pips away. The cool thing with this sort of entry, is the risk vs reward was very much in our favor. Probability favored that even if we were wrong on the trade idea, that we would bounce from our entry certainly far enough to lock in break even, therefore having a zero risk trade! Sure enough, within 5 minutes we were +35 pips locked in break even, the rest is history. I detail this trade entirely in this video, and had you held on until London lunch we did eventually make our target of 120 pips or so before falling 50 pips just after, I suppose we were not the only traders seeing this scenario.

Have a great weekend folks, see you at the Forex and Options Expo in Las Vegas at Caesars Palace Monday morning! Visit our blog at http://blogs.fxstreet.com/fxbootcamp/ for more information.

FXBootcamp London Currency Coach-
Christian Stephens

Today’s London session was kind of tacky other than the quite obvious British Pound weakness throughout the night. While the GBP/USD short paid nice dividends from the pre-London entry, in this video I focus more on a completely different trade on the EUR/JPY. However, we did use the GBP weakness in the form of EUR/GBP breaking resistance to give us our confirmation on the EUR/JPY long. This trade plan shows how price action will often respect previous area’s of resistance as support, in the form of role reversal. This entry was pretty much entirely predicated by this. Ultimately the trade only reached around a 40 pip profit, but it was a relatively painless wait for +15 or so, enough to protect break even, and enjoy a risk free trade.

FXBootcamp London Currency Coach-
Christian Stephens