AUD Employment Change is released during the Asia session. We trade the headline event and add AUD Unemployment Rate as a conflict. If a trade is triggered, expect a spike of 20-30 pips.

NZD GDP QoQ is released during the Asia session. We like to see a substantial deviation for this event, otherwise the market move is usually too small to trade. If a trade is triggered, expect a spike of around 30…

CAD CPI is released prior to the US open. We’re looking for a deviation of +/-0.3. If a trade is triggered, we expect a spike in excess of 20 pips.

USD Retail Sales is released prior to the open of the US session. We are looking for a divergence of +/-1. If this is hit then we will be looking for a 10 pip spike.

USD CPI MoM is released prior to the US session. If our triggers are hit, we expect a spike of 20 pips. Our triggers are usually wide enough to overcome any conflicts.

In the US session we see USD ISM Manufacturing PMI. We set reasonably wide triggers for this event as reactions are usually quite small. We only want to trade if there is a large divergence and even then we will…

USD Nonfarm Payrolls is released prior to the open of the US session. We add USD Unemployment Rate as a Conflict and we look for a spike of 20 pips if a trade is triggered.

CAD Employment Change is released prior to the US session. We trade the headline component and we add CAD Unemployment Rate as a conflict. We expect a spike of 30 pips if a trade is triggered.

Early US session we see USD ISM Manufacturing PMI. We set reasonably wide triggers for this event as reactions are usually quite small. We only want to trade if there is a large divergence and even then we will look…

AUD GDP QoQ is released during the Asian session. This is a two star event and we look to trade it with only a minor deviation from the forecast. If a trade is triggered, expect a spike of 10-20 pips.