Date: Wednesday 31st January 2018 Time: 19:00 UTC 93 out of 93 economists are forecasting no change for the USD Fed Interest Rate Decision today. This means that there will be a good move if the Fed do move on rates, but it’s also highly unlikely. The CME FedWatch Tool is currently forecasting the probability...

Date: Wednesday 31st January 2018 Time: 15:30 UTC Today we see the Crude Oil Inventories for the week. Previously this has been a figure for the futures traders, however some Forex brokers are now offering oil contracts, so check with your broker. If you haven’t traded this figure before, please test it on the simulator,...

Date: Wednesday 31st January 2018 Time: 13:30 UTC CAD GDP MoM is due out later today. This was a really good figure for us last month, you can read the full report here: CAD GDP MoM 2017/12/22....

Date: Wednesday 31st January 2018 Time: 00:30 UTC AUD CPI is the first of This Week’s Top Figures to be released. This is a difficult figure to trade due to Australian figures being staggered in their release and not always in the same order. We will setup our triggers on AUD Trimmed Mean CPI QoQ,...

Date: Friday 26th January 2018 Time: 13:30 UTC CAD CPI MoM has been within a deviation of +/-0.1 for the last six months. We are setting the triggers outside of this range. We also don’t want to see a conflict with CAD CPI YoY. It’s also important to note that it is released at the...

Date: Friday 26th January 2018 Time: 13:30 UTC Pre US session, we see the release of USD GDP QoQ. This is the first reading of the figure and is usually the most volatile.

Date: Friday 26th January 2018 Time: 09:30 UTC We see the preliminary reading of GBP GDP QoQ. This figure rarely deviates more than +/0.1 from expectations and there is usually only a small reaction. We will be setting up to trade it with any deviation, but this is definitely not one of the better figures....

Date: Thursday 25th January 2018 Time: 13:30 UTC CAD Core Retails Sales MoM is released at 13:30 UTC. In our experience, this figure moves the market, but the outcome is very much dependent on the fill from your broker. This figure is realised the same time as the start of the ECB press conference and...

Date: Thursday 25th January 2018 Time: 12:45 UTC The likelihood of a move by the ECB today is very close to zero, we expect this to be a none event. We are only including this report because of it’s importance....

Date: Wednesday 24th January 2018 Time: 21:45 UTC Shortly NZD CPI will be released. NZD CPI QoQ is the headline figure and we will set Conflict Manager for NZD CPI YoY. If you have not yet used Conflict Manager, please check out this post: Introducing Conflict Manager...