Trade Calls for August 21, 2008

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 for August 20, 2008

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…

Trade Opportunity Tonight

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 for August 14, 2008

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 for August 13, 2008

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…

Trade Call for August 8, 2008

TRADE CALL RECAP Our last live trade call was this past Tuesday when we were watching the UK Industrial Production report.  We were looking to short the GBPUSD if the number came out at least 0.5% worse than expected.  The number came out with a -0.3% deviation, so it did not meet our safe trigger. …

Trade Opportunity Tonight

TRADE OPPORTUNITY TONIGHT There is an opportunity to trade tonight when the AUD Labor Force Employment report is released at 9:30 pm EDT.  The expectation for this release is 5k jobs.  We have lowered the safe trigger to 15k jobs for this release, as we have historically seen moves of around 25 to 40 pips…

Trade Call for August 5, 2008

TRADE CALLS RECAP Last Friday we were watching two releases for potential trades.  The first was the US Non-Farm Payrolls, and we were looking to long the USD/JPY if the number came out at least 50k better than expected.   The actual deviation was only 24k jobs, so it did not meet our safe trigger and…