The RBA announce their interest rate decision during the Asian session. 29 out of 30 analysts surveyed by Bloomberg expect the RBA to cute rates by 25bps, the first move by the Central Bank in three years. The possibility of…

AUD Retail Sales MoM is released during the Asian session. We only trade this event with a large deviation. If a trade is triggered, we look for a spike of 20-30 pips.

CAD GDP MoM is released pre US session. Historically we have seen a good spike with any deviation from the forecast and follow through usually occurs quickly. If a trade is triggered, expect a spike in excess of 50 pips.

The second reading of USD GDP QoQ is released prior to the US session. There is usually little deviation on the second reading, it’s rare that we see this event trigger a trade. When it does, we look for 15-20…

Early European session we see GBP Retail Sales, we focus on the Core Retail Sales MoM component. If a trade is triggered, expect a spike around 30 pips. We usually see immediate follow through with this event.

CAD Retail Sales is released prior to the open of the US session. We only look to trade this event with a large deviation from the forecast. We setup for CAD Core Retail Sales MoM and add CAD Retail Sales…

Early European session we see GBP CPI YoY. We usually see a strong move when this event deviates more than +/-0.1. We also add the MoM event to Conflict Manager. We expect a spike of 40 pips if a trade…

AUD Employment Change is released during the Asia session. We will setup Conflict Manager for AUD Unemployment Rate. If a trade is triggered, expect a spike of 20-30 pips.

CAD CPI is released prior to the start of the US session. Our triggers for this event are usually wide enough to overcome any conflict and therefore we don’t use Conflict Manager with this event. We will trade this event…

USD Retail Sales is released prior to the open of the US session. We’re looking for a divergence of +/-0.5. If this is hit then we will be looking for a 20+ pip spike. This divergence is usually enough for…