- Today we had the press conference for Donald Trump that the market took a reversal stance on and sold off US dollar. There weren’t really updates for the press conference, so most likely the selling came from the existing uncertainty around the new president as he’s about to take office soon. Meanwhile, the equity markets were still largely green with oil market surged regardless of the large built on crude inventories. The risk sentiment is certainly on and that has helped NZD tremendously. As mentioned, NZD is a more neutral currency as there is no new agenda from RBNZ in terms of easing and it’s also political stable in comparison with other countries. Today we had a breakout candlestick for NZD/CHF that cleared the 0.7150 area and looking to edge higher. The existing trend is also an uptrend, if the risk on sentiment continues then we can really expect AUD, NZD & CAD commodities currencies to keep going higher.
- The catalyst was the risk sentiment, the recent weakness of USD and the technical signals.
- We’re right in the middle from the last short-term downtrend.
- The risk is the sentiment shifts which will be the biggest one to benefit CHF and hurt NZD.
- I’ll manage it by following up the global news to see if there is any risky event to turn off the sentiment, otherwise i’ll trail with regular 3 bar exit for this trade and expect to hold it over the weekend.
- Yes but only if i get filled the next day or so.
LONG NZD/CHF
@ 0.7170
SL @ 0.7030
*******REVISED*****
because we had 3 singles in NZD/CHF, GBP/NZD & EUR/NZD and all GBP, EUR & CHF had all equal fundamental reasons to be shorted, so i decided to separate the risk % and place trades in all 3 trades instead to risk 1% in buying NZD.
GBP has fundamental uncertainty and sentimental weakness from Brexit, EUR also has sentimental weakness and suffered as risk on sentiment to pressure the safe heaven currency because EUR is one of them.
LONG NZD/CHF
@ 0.7170
SL @ 0.7030
SHORT EUR/NZD
@ 1.4963
SL @ 1.5253
SHORT GBP/NZD
@ 1.7248
SL @ 1.7648
EUR/NZD
- The market reacted as expected by selling EUR and buying NZD. NZD is still benefited from weak USD but so did EUR. Both currencies do not have major news release and are really acted alone side with USD. If USD turns around to regain strength, that will our risk but we expect EUR to be sold off largely than NZD as EUR/USD is the number one go-to currency pair when buying/selling USD.
- We expect the downward movement to continue unless we have new negative datas from NZD as positive datas from EUR did not help much from this week and last week.
- I’m still in this trade because my view is still the same.
- I will get into this trade but i’ll probably prefer shorting GBP/NZD instead as i think GBP is the weakness currency sentimentally as we had a new update from PM May’s next week speech to further push GBP downward.
The PM May speech tomorrow will be a large risk event and the market has been in a negative for this event. We might see a reversal prior to the event or after event, or we might see continuation of selling into GBP.
The safe heaven currencies will of course be benefited if the risk sentiment continues to be off, but will be hurt if the sentiment changes to on.
Nevertheless, we’re tightening our SL to further reduce our exposure.
EUR/NZD
MOVE SL 1.5031
Updates Jan 17th
The PM May’s speech turned out to be a strong boost for GBP and market has viewed it as positive outcome, at least for now.
This of course pushed GBP further versus all pairs which stopped us out in our GBP/NZD trade at Breakeven.
On the other hand, because of the GBP strength, the USD & EUR have both been sold further.
The winner beside GBP is JPY & CHF both safe heaven currencies, but also AUD & NZD.
I’m tighten up my SL for both NZD trade and am more confident toward EUR/NZD trade as the GBP strength now really hurt EUR.
NZD/CHF on the other hand does have pressure of save haven currency effect and if the equity markets continue to be down, we should see further buying into CHF which will jeopardize our trade.
NZD/CHF
MOVE SL @ 0.7141
EUR/NZD
MOVE SL @ 1.5015
updates Jan 18th
The market has regained strength with both Asian and European equities closed up, USD also regains strength today.
Tomorrow we have the ECB event which will either be an event to pressure EURO or help EURO.
This reason alone let us decide to move SL to BE now.
Furthermore, the awaking of USD will further pressure NZD & AUD.
On the other hand, the risk on sentiment will also help AUD & NZD.
Either way, tomorrow’s event will be another fresh catalyst for us to trade.
Move SL to BE for EUR/NZD
As for NZD/CHF, because of the narrow range, we don’t want to move SL to BE just yet, also CHF and NZD do not have headline risk event for tomorrow.
We will mainly focus on the ECB meeting and how the market reacts to that in the risk sentiment to see.
If market reacts negatively for EUR, this will help USD but also help European equity markets as weak EUR will help trading further although strong countries like Germany will not be happy.
Nevertheless, if the equity markets turn around, this will help our NZD/CHF trade.
Alternative scenario for this, is that the strong USD might pressure AUD & NZD as they both surged so much from the absence of USD previously, and this might really pressure NZD to further hurt our trade.
However, if markets reacts positively for EUR, this will pressure USD and also pressure equity markets as cheap money might be finished sooner than expected. If markets turn down then this will help CHF and further pressure our NZD/CHF trade.
updates Jan 19th
- NZD continued to be the strongest currency to give us another solid green day against CHF. Even though we had a risk off sentiment day, but the sentiment is really into buying AUD & NZD due to high yield, stable political outlook and generally non events.
- If in the normal circumstances, i will relax and keep holding this trade further, and perhaps even enter too add on since we do have a solid Green big shadow, however, because of tomorrow’s inauguration which is going to be very volatile for the market and over the weekend, not only i’m not looking to do anything except moving SL to BE, I’m also very likely to exit all trades prior to the weekend. Unless NZD/CHF edges higher after the inauguration event or if we have a clear direction.
- I’m still in this trade because NZD is still very strong and CHF is still very weak. I’m setting SL to BE to prevent any upset for tomorrow’s big event.
- I will not get into this trade if I was flat now b/c it’s not ideal to get into any trades prior to major risk event when it’s so close.
Move SL @ 0.7170
as for EUR/NZD, we had a similar picture that i’m still hold my trade with SL to break-even.
updated on Sunday Jan 30th
- As this trade is already set to BE, we will let it unfold the path. As for now our current view is still fundamentally and sentimentally bullish in NZD and bearish in EUR. This week’s risk event will not change the fundamental dimension of these 2 currencies, but it might change the sentiment which we will act accordingly.
updated on Tuesday Jan 31st
- today’s market sentiment has completely shifted toward EUR strength by its fundamental datas and sentimental bias from the weak dollar, meanwhile, NZD did not provide us with good employment data and therefore had been largely sold off ever since the release.