Date: Wednesday 21st March 2018 Time: 18:00 UTC Today we see the Fed Interest Rate Decision. All 40 economists surveyed by CNBC are forecasting a hike at today’s meeting, while the CME FedWatch Tool is currently forecasting the probability of a hike at 97%: CME FedWatch. A hike of 25bps will likely see choppy action....

Date: Wednesday 14th March 2018 Time: 12:30 UTC This month we’re paying more attention to USD Retail Sales MoM because it’s the most important figure released at this time (often it’s released with USD CPI). This should make it a lot more straight forward to trade. Last month the market reacted to USD Retail Sales...

Date: Tuesday 13th March 2018 Time: 12:30 UTC Today we see USD CPI MoM. Last month there was a conflict with USD Retail Sales and the market reacted to the USD Retail Sales figure. This month they are not released together so any move should be more straight forward. We will add the YoY and...

Date: Friday 9th March 2018 Time: 13:30 UTC Later today we see USD Nonfarm Payrolls. This figure has become more difficult to trade in recent times as more relevance is being placed on other components of the report. We like to see immediate follow through in this trade and a spike of around 30-50 pips....

Date: Thursday 1st March 2018 Time: 15:00 UTC Early US session we see USD ISM Manufacturing PMI. If a trade is triggered, expect a spike of around 20 pips....

Date: Wednesday 28th February 2018 Time: 13:30 UTC Pre US session, we see the release of USD GDP QoQ. This is the second reading of the figure, if a trade is triggered we should expect around 20 pips....

Date: Friday 12th January 2018 Time: 13:30 UTC Today we see USD CPI MoM, last month we saw a conflict between CPI and Core CPI and the market reacted off the Core figure. This month we will add the core figures to Conflict Manager. USD Retail Sales is released at the same time today, so...

Date: Monday 5th February 2018 Time: 15:00 UTC Today we see USD ISM Non-Manufacturing PMI. We don’t usually see massive moves on this figure, if a trade gets triggered we usually see a move of roughly 20 pips. Keep this in mind when looking to exit as it’s not usually one to hold on to....

Date: Friday 2nd February 2018 Time: 13:30 UTC Later today we see USD Nonfarm Payrolls. This figure has become more difficult to trade in recent times as more relevance is being placed on other components of the report. This month we’re going to bring the parameters in to +/-40. We mentioned last month (USD Nonfarm […]

Date: Thursday 1st February 2018 Time: 15:00 UTC USD ISM Manufacturing PMI is released early US session today. We set the parameters reasonably wide for this trade and usually get triggered about half of the time. Because the triggers are wider, we see follow through on a high percentage of the trades that are triggered....