Australia

Australia hiked its interest rate last night. AUDUSD and AUDNZD both moved up smartly. I bought AUDNZD based on the chart I posted yesterday. I am now out. Why not stay in since I often do that when I’m in profit and can move my stop to such a point that I keep some of those profits?

One reason is I’m thinking of shorting. There is the downtrend as you can see from the chart yesterday. Always go with the trend, you hear. Well hip, hip hooray for the trend followers. What are you supposed to do in a sideways market? I’m not afraid to go against the trend if I see clear signals. Being with the trend usually leads to bigger profits and it’s often “safer.” But in this case, because of conflicting signals across different time frames and because of the current price behavior I lean short. So I had to close my long position.

With both pairs, I’m surprised there’s not more oomph from the rate hike. Ozzie should be on track for .9000 and wouldn’t that be grand? But let’s watch it. Let’s see how it unfolds. Many people are already counting their profits from that level and the market has a way of not going along with the best laid plans of mice and men.

None of the above are trade recommendations. Remember that trading involves substantial risk.

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