Second Carry Strategy

Hello everyone,

Welcome again. Today I am going to post screenshots of my second carry strategy in this blog, which I call it "carry strategy 1". You can always locate the posts corresponding to this strategy in the future by clicking on the Label "Carry strategy 1" Located at the ed of this post. This will show you all the posts related to this strategy.


The first screenshot show the account positions summary. It is similar to Carry Strategy 4, with only one modification is that I sometimes close the +positions and open another ones with the same unit size.

The second screen shot is showing the account Exposure summary.

The third screen shot is showing the account summary since it was opened in November 18th and not November the 1st as the "Carry 4 Strategy". You can easily know the difference between the interest profit and the actual position closure profits by subtracting the Relaised Profit/Loss from the balance. That way, you will get the actual interest that was credited to this account since November 18th.

How to easily see the performance of a specific carry strategy

To easily see the performance of a specific carry strategy, or the posts related to it. I will use the label function in Google Blogger. I will label the Carry 4 strategy with the "Carry Strategy 4" and so on....

I am testing nearly 6 strategies, so they will be named correspondingly .

My first carry strategy.

We will call this "Carry 4". I have taken the idea and the ratio of positions from one of the members of the OANDA forums. I have been implementing it since November the 1st. You will see in the account activity I am long GBP/JPY 46,040 Units, I am shorting USD/JPY 23,020 units, and I am shorting GBP/USD 20,000 Units.





So Far I didn't do anything with this strategy after I placed my initial positions, I am just letting the interest profits go. After the recent rate hike in GBP yesterday, I don't know how this will affect the strategy, but we will see in the coming few month. I think I can just cancel the GBP/USD trade now safely, because the interest is equal now.



As you will see in the account activity, I have more than 10% profits as of January 11th 2007.





I am welcoming any comments and suggestions to improve this strategy. I wonder how this strategy will work if the JPY start showing its muscles.

Carry Trade strategies.

Hello everyone,

Since the beginning of November 2006, and I am testing a few carry trade strategies. Although I am not a big fan of carry trades, I noticed some of them are working until now with decent profits. Ia m gonna post the progress of these strategies from now on. Though, I am not recommending any of them because I noticed that most of them are just depending on a falling USD to succeed, but I am still in the process of testing them.