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TRADE CALL RECAP For our last Live on the News event, we were watching the Canadian GDP report last Friday. We were looking to long the USD/CAD or EUR/CAD if the report came out at least 0.2% worse than expected. The number came out with no deviation, so it did not meet our safe trigger…
US GDP PROVIDES UP TO 30 PIPS OF PROFIT For our last live trade call, we were watching the US GDP report that was released this morning. We were going to sell the GBPUSD if the deviation was 0.4% or higher. The actual number came out with a 0.6% deviation, so it met our trigger…
TRADE CALL RECAP For our last live trade call, we were watching the US Durable Goods report this morning. We were going to buy the USDJPY if the deviation was 2.5% or higher. The actual number came out with a 1.4% deviation, so it did not meet our trigger and we did not get in…
UK RETAIL SALES PROVIDES UP TO 35 PIPS FOR TRADERS Last Thursday we were watching two news releases for potential trades. The first was the UK Retail Sales figures, and we were looking to long the GBPUSD if the number came out at least 0.4% better than expected. The actual number came out with a…
TRADE CALL RECAPS For our last live trade call, we were watching the UK Retail Sales and Canadian CPI reports that were released this morning. For the UK Retail Sales, we were going to buy the GBPUSD if the actual number was at least 0.4% better than expected. The actual number came out with a…
TRADE CALL RECAP For our last live trade call, we were looking at the Canadian Retail Sales this morning, and we were looking to enter a short on the EUR/CAD or USD/CAD if the figure came out at least 0.4% better than expected. The actual number came out with a 0.8% deviation, so it met…
TRADE CALL RECAP For our last live trade call, we were looking at the US CPI report last Thursday. For the US CPI report, we were looking to enter a short on the GBP/USD if the deviation met our safe trigger of 0.1%. The actual number came out with 0.1% deviation, so it met our…
O&F FOREX News & ViewsBy: Head Trader, Derek Frey August 18, 2008 Quick Links Register Now Related Topics About the Author General Market Comments: We continue to see higher than “normal” levels of volatility. The Dollar continues to find and hold support levels and maintain its rally. The underlying fundamentals, however, do not support this strength.…
TRADE OPPORTUNITY TONIGHT There is an opportunity to trade tonight when the NZD Retail Sales report is released at 6:45pm EDT. The focus should be on the Retail Sales All Industries figure, and the expectation for this release is 0.0%. We have placed a safe trigger of 0.3% for this release. We have historically seen…
TRADE CALL RECAP Our last live trade call was on the US Retail Sales report that was released this morning. For the US Retail Sales Less Autos report, we were looking to short the USD/JPY if the number came out at least 0.5% worse than expected. The actual number came out with a deviation of…
TRADE CALL RECAPS Our last live trades were this morning when we were watching three news releases. First was the UK CPI report, and we were looking to long the GBPUSD if the number came out at least 0.2%better than expected. The actual number came out with a 0.2% deviation, so our safe trigger was…
CAD LABOR CHANGE PROVIDES UP TO 80 PIPS Our last live trade call was this past Friday when we were watching the Canadian Labor Change report. We were looking to long the EURCAD and USDCAD if the number came out at least 15k worse than expected. The number came out with a -60k deviation, so…