Date: Friday 9th February 2018 Time: 13:30 UTC CAD Employment Change was a good figure for us last month, you can see the report here: CAD Employment Change – 2018/01/05. As there are no significant USD figures released at the same time today, this can be traded in EUR/CAD or USD/CAD, however we’re going to...

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: 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: 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: Wednesday 17th January 2018 Time: 15:00 UTC Today we see the Interest Rate Decision from the Bank of Canada. Out of the 27 economists polled, 26 are forecasting a hike to 1.25%....

Date: Friday 5th January 2018 Time: 13:30 UTC CAD Employment Change is released at the same time as USD Nonfarm Payrolls. There’s potential for a larger move from USD Nonfarm Payrolls, but it can also be more erratic. Beginner traders maybe better off trading CAD Employment Change, it’s often more predictable.

Date: Friday 22nd December 2017 Time: 13:30 UTC CAD GDP MoM is due out at 13:30 UTC, and rounds off the figures for this week. There’s USD figures released at the same time. We don’t trade the USD figures, but it means that we’ll be trading CAD GDP MoM in EUR/CAD....

Date: Wednesday 6th December 2017 Time: 15:00 UTC There are 26 estimates for the Bank of Canada Rate Decision. 23 analysts are going for unchanged with 3 looking for a hike of 25 basis points....

Date: Friday 1st December 2017 Time: 13:30 UTC We rarely trade CAD Employment Change. More often than not, it’s released the same time as USD Non-Farm Payrolls and our preference is to trade NFP. NFP also influences the CAD with all of the USD trades crossed with it. This month is the exception, however CAD […]

Date: Friday 1st December 2017 Time: 13:30 UTC CAD GDP MoM is usually a really good figure to trade. Unfortunately this month it’s realised the same time as CAD Employment Change which will definitely add an element of unpredictability to the figure. There’s no data for when these figures have been realised at the same...