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…

Trade Opportunity Later Today

TRADING OPPORTUNITY LATER TODAY There is an opportunity to trade later today when the New Zealand Retail Sales report is released at 6:45 pm EDT.  Our focus is on the Retail Sales All Industries figure, and the expectation for this report is -0.1%.  We have placed a safe trigger of 0.3% for this release.  When…

Trade Calls for July 11, 2008

TRADE CALL RECAP Our last live trade call was this past Monday 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 -0.7% deviation, so it met our safe trigger.  Our traders…

Live Trade Call for July 7, 2008

TRADE CALL RECAP Last Friday we were watching the US Non-Farm Payrolls, and we were looking to short the USDJPY if the number came out at least 50k worse than expected.   The actual deviation was only 2k jobs, so it did not meet our safe trigger and we did not enter a trade. OUR NEXT…

Trade Opportunity Tonight

TRADE OPPORTUNITY TONIGHT There is an opportunity to trade tonight when the AUD Retail Sales report is released at 9:30pm EDT.  The expectation for this release is 0.1%.  We have placed a safe trigger of 0.4% jobs for this release.  We have historically seen moves of around 25 to 40 pips when this release has…