DCA for beginnersI made a visual explanation investing mid/long-term with DCA and of how effective DCA is and how to do it based on a weekly chart, no matter how much money you got, you can adapt to your capital
Understand that this is an example amongst many other and you are not obligated to follow this strategy, it's just to guide if you're new to DCA. It's not a financial advice.
also, it's important to understand the market cycles, and know when it's a bullrun, a bear market and an accumulation & expansion phase
Midterm
Learning how USD corrolates with non-USD currencies. EURCADMy CURRENT definition of RISK.
RISK ON
USD down, moving XXX/USD currencies up and USD/XXX currencies down.
or
RISK OFF
USD up, moving XXX/USD currencies down and USD/XXX currencies up.
Mid term (3 wks-6mo) I lean bias towards 2018 trading in RISK ON mode. Which means
EURUSD is a buy mid-term.
USDCAD is a sell mid-term.
In the last several months we have been in RISK ON mode with EURUSD in a obvious uptrend. I've noticed EURCAD trends UP when we are risk on.
So mid-term we cannot expect to short EURCAD because we know the underlying currencies are in up trends. Short term I do believe there is room for a pullback to the 1.53 or 1.52 levels coupled with a pullback in EURUSD. But ultimately I will be looking to trade EURCAD higher in months to come.
Full Disclaimer: This is a test I'm running to better understand how correlations among two USD pegged pairs perform when pegged against each other. I will be referencing both EURUSD and USDCAD often. EURUSD is perfectly 1-1 inversely correlated with USD. This is because the EURUSD is the strongest correlated currency to the USD in the world and ultimately controls EURCAD by nature. Trade between the United States and the European Union is over half of USD transactions so EURO's are the most strongly correlated out of all other currencies. That being said when I'm looking at the price of EURUSD, I'm actually reflecting on the price of USD if that makes any sense. EURUSD is up when USD is down BECAUSE USD is down! I track USD with the US Dollar index. Ticker DXY.
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and ultimately controls EURCAD by nature