Trade Call for August 8, 2008

TRADE CALL RECAP Our last live trade call was this past Tuesday when we were watching the UK Industrial Production report.  We were looking to short the GBPUSD if the number came out at least 0.5% worse than expected.  The number came out with a -0.3% deviation, so it did not meet our safe trigger. …

Trade Opportunity Tonight

TRADE OPPORTUNITY TONIGHT There is an opportunity to trade tonight when the AUD Labor Force Employment report is released at 9:30 pm EDT.  The expectation for this release is 5k jobs.  We have lowered the safe trigger to 15k jobs for this release, as we have historically seen moves of around 25 to 40 pips…

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…

7/24/2008 Bank Flow Update

I am looking for a continuation of the uptrend on the USDCHF. At the moment 1.0390 to 1.0400 seems to be providing some resistance. A break above this level should see a push towards the next targeted sell level at 1.0486. As the market approaches the sell area, monitor the price action for a failure…

Live Trade Call for July 24, 2008

TRADE CALL RECAP For our last live trade call, we were looking at the Canadian CPI this morning, and we were looking to enter a long on the USD/CAD if the figure came out at least 0.2% worse than expected.  The actual number came out with -0.1% deviation, so it did not meet our safe…

Live Trade Call for July 22, 2008

TRADE CALL RECAP For our last live trade call, we were looking at the US CPI report last Wednesday.  For the US CPI report, we were looking to enter a short on the GBP/USD if the deviation met our safe trigger of 0.1%.  The actual number came out with 0.1% deviation, so it met our…

Trade Call for July 16, 2008

TRADE CALL RECAPS Our last live trade calls were for the UK CPI and the US Retail Sales reports that were released this morning.  For the UK CPI, we were looking to long the GBPUSD if the release came out at least 0.2% better than expected on the Harmonized YoY figure. That figure came out…