Trading the Greek Stuff

You already knew Greece was in trouble, and by now you are probably just as tired as I am of hearing about the drama. Here’s the summary: If you have been living underneath a drachma, it's that Greek’s new leftist government is under pressure to stop paying on its IMF (and other) loans.

This is a problem because Greece owes about 100 bazillion euros to various lenders. Ok, the actual number is 323 billion euros. This is 175% of its GDP. This means that even if Greece were to give the entire value of all its goods and services for a full year to pay off its loans, it would still owe about 130 billion euros to various lenders, and all of its people would be dead. This is not a workable solution.

(By the way, Japan is the only nation with a higher Debt to GDP ratio - something in the neighborhood of 250% - but for some reason, no one cares about that)

How do we trade this potential crisis?

First, let’s make the assumption that Greece is weighing down the Eurozone. Second, let’s make the assumption that as bad as the US Economy may seem to “television economists” (as brilliant as they are, ahem), it’s still doing better than the Eurozone. With the exception of Mississippi. Mississippi is doing pretty badly. (https://www.bls.gov/eag/eag.ms.htm)

Third, let’s set some levels at which we’ve seen previous support or resistance on a major currency pair, like the EUR/USD.

1.0600 and 1.1200 appear to be levels at which the EUR/USD pivoted, or turned around, in the past. These are simple support and resistance levels. They are great areas for taking a trade. I’ve actually placed sell trades at these levels, in case delusional traders bid up the pair on good news out of Europe.

If the EUR/USD never rises to these levels, then I won’t have a trade, but then again, I don’t want to just trade at random prices. So I’ll wait and watch. On a $400k account, these are 5 mini lot trades each with very large profit targets.

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