Last Thursday

THE BAD NEWS FIRST Last Thursday I sent out an email stating that if the US GDP came out lower than expected by .5% to go short and if it came out .5% higher than expected go long. This information was incorrect. Bottom line, I mad a mistake and typed the wrong thing. We traded…

Trading the UK CPI

Yesterday I said that I would be trading the UK CPI and a higher number would signal a long and a lower than expected number would signal a short. The CPI came out at -.1% instead of the expected 0%. This did not meet my criteria for a safe trade however it did signal a…

US Trade Balance came out

Lets review. THE LAST TRADE CALL… Yesterday I wrote that if the US Trade Balance came out lower than expected by 1.5 billion to go long on the GBP/USD. The actual release came out 3.2b lower than expected and had no revisions which signaled a long however the pressure was down therefore it only moved…

Today we had US CPI

I am very excited about tonights release becuase it has been a good moverbut before we get into that lets review. OUR LAST TRADE CALL Today we had US CPI which was released as expected so no trade there. After the release was done we watched the market for a while and I suggested a…

NON FARM RECAP

I hope you have had a great weekend. I am definitely enjoying my time in the Smoky Mountains. I drove up on Friday with a group from my church after the Non Farm trade. NON FARM RECAP Just prior to the release the GBPUSD started to climb and within 20 minutes had moved over 70…

The first is the US GDP

Sorry for my sending this out so late but I have been swamped. Today was a great day in the trade room. The first release we watched did not hit our triggers so we passed however the seconds release we were watching did hit our triggers and in fact it surpassed our triggers coming out…

UK GDP being released

Tomorrow we have a couple of good trade opportunities. The first is the UK GDP being released at 4:30am eastern. It is expected at .8% and very rarely comes out deviating enough to trade however when it does deviate it tends to move really good. I will be looking for .2% deviation and a higher…