Live Trade Call for October 14, 2008

TRADE CALL RECAP Our last live trades were last Friday when we were watching three news releases.  First was the Canadian Labor Change report, and we were looking to short the EURCAD or USDCAD if the number came out at least 15k better than expected.  The actual number came out with a 96.9k deviation, so…

Trade Call for October 7, 2008

TRADE CALL RECAP Last Friday we were watching the US Non-Farm Payrolls release, and we were going to short the USD/JPY if the number came out at least 50k worse than expected.  The actual deviation was 54k, so met our triggers and we entered a trade.  I warned to use lower leverage and to close…

Trade Call for August 22, 2008

TRADE CALL RECAPS For our last live trade call, we were watching the UK Retail Sales and Canadian CPI reports that were released this morning.  For the UK Retail Sales, we were going to buy the GBPUSD if the actual number was at least 0.4% better than expected.  The actual number came out with a…

Trade Calls for August 21, 2008

TRADE CALL RECAP For our last live trade call, we were looking at the Canadian Retail Sales this morning, and we were looking to enter a short on the EUR/CAD or USD/CAD if the figure came out at least 0.4% better than expected.  The actual number came out with a 0.8% deviation, so it met…

Trade Call for August 5, 2008

TRADE CALLS RECAP Last Friday we were watching two releases for potential trades.  The first was the US Non-Farm Payrolls, and we were looking to long the USD/JPY if the number came out at least 50k better than expected.   The actual deviation was only 24k jobs, so it did not meet our safe trigger and…