Written by Barry Battista
Thursday, October 28th, 2010
We have 2 trades tomorrow that both come out at 8:30. This can be complicated if you trade them both. If you are going to only trade 1, I would go with the US release.
8:30 AM EST
CAD GDP m/m – Change in the inflation adjusted value of all goods and services.
EUR/CAD
The spread on the EUR/CAD is 8 or 9 pips with most brokers, so we start off needing a good spike just to break even. I think I would avoid a medium trigger with this and use .3 for a safe. If it hits .3 we should get a decent spike out of it. The last 2 months it came out at 0. In July it came out at -.1 and spiked a few pips the wrong way before retracing. In August there was a second row of data with this release that only comes out quarterly. In August, the second row came out at .5 and caused a 33 pip spike, but it is not due out again till next month. The Straddle is particularly risky with this because of the big spread in the EUR/CAD and the large deviation required for a decent spike. And if you try the USD/CAD you risk the US GDP conflicting in direction with the CAD GDP. No telling what would happen in this case other than you would likely lose money. So, I would not recommend the Straddle on this.
8:30 AM EST
US GDP q/q Advanced – Change in the inflation adjusted value of all goods and services. Like the British GDP, this is the first of 3 quarterly releases and therefore tends to have the most impact.
EUR/JPY or USD/JPY
In July (the last time an Advanced number was released) it came out with a -.2 deviation. It spiked down 22 pips, retraced all the way, went down 30 pips, and retraced again. A revision of .1 came out in the opposite direction but seemed to have little effect. I will use .4 medium and .6 safe for the Oracle Trader, and will trade the EUR/JPY. I will trade 1/2 my normal lots on the medium and full lots on the safe. I will also set up the Straddle on the EUR/JPY with a maxspread of 7. Like usual, be quick to Remove the Straddle EA as soon as the data comes out. If you are in, then manage the live trade like you would any other live trade.
Good luck and be really careful if you are trading both releases.