USD Nonfarm Payrolls is released prior to the open of the US session. We add USD Unemployment Rate as a Conflict and we look for a spike of 20 pips if a trade is triggered.

The RBNZ announce their interest rate decision during the Asian session. All analysts surveyed expect the RBNZ to hike the Official Cash Rate by 25bps to 0.50%. This is therefore likely already priced into the market. Should the RBNZ fail…

We haven’t traded USD ISM Manufacturing PMI for over a year as the market reaction became too small to trade. The last few months have seen good reactions and therefore we are adding the event back to the line-up for…

The final reading of USD GDP QoQ is released prior to the US session. We don’t usually see a large enough deviation on this event to trigger a trade. However, if a trade does trigger, we will look for 15…

USD Retail Sales is released prior to the open of the US session. We are looking for a divergence of +/-1. If this is hit then we will be looking for a 10 pip spike. Volatility has increased recently over…

AUD Employment Change is released during the Asia session. We trade the headline event and add AUD Unemployment Rate as a conflict. If a trade is triggered, expect a spike of 20-30 pips.

NZD GDP QoQ is released during the Asia session. We like to see a substantial deviation for this event, otherwise the market move is usually too small to trade. If a trade is triggered, expect a spike of around 30…

CAD CPI is released prior to the US session. We’re looking for a deviation of +/-0.3. If a trade is triggered, we expect a spike in excess of 20 pips.

USD CPI MoM is released prior to the US session. If our triggers are hit, we expect a spike of 20 pips. Our triggers are usually wide enough to overcome any conflicts.

CAD Employment Change is released prior to the US session. We trade the headline component and we add CAD Unemployment Rate as a conflict. We expect a spike of 30 pips if a trade is triggered.