Date: Friday 5th January 2018 Time: 13:30 UTC CAD Employment Change is released at the same time as USD Nonfarm Payrolls. There’s potential for a larger move from USD Nonfarm Payrolls, but it can also be more erratic. Beginner traders maybe better off trading CAD Employment Change, it’s often more predictable.

Date: Friday 5th January 2018 Time: 13:30 UTC Later today we see USD Nonfarm Payrolls. This figure has become more difficult to trade in recent times as more relevance is being placed on other components of the report. For this reason we have developed Conflict Manager. To take full advantage of this, please download News […]

Date: Friday 5th January 2018 Time: 10:00 UTC This morning we see the prelim release of European CPI. This figure is very hit and miss, sometimes we get a decent move, sometimes we don’t get anything. If you’re not comfortable with managing trades like this, then please avoid this one. There are some good employment...

Date: Thursday 4th January 2018 Time: 16:00 UTC Today we see the Crude Oil Inventories for the week. This isn’t a Forex figure, this is a figure for the Futures traders. As always, if you haven’t traded this figure before, please test it on the simulator, Crude Oil can be very volatile. When we trade...

Date: Thursday 4th January 2018 Time: 13:15 UTC We haven’t seen a good, tradeable, ADP report for over six months now, so please don’t use big size. This is only a one star figure and we need to see some consistency with the reaction before this changes. With that said, we believe the parameters are...

Today we’re releasing News Trader Pro v2 with Conflict Manager. No more hitting the spike just to see it reverse due to a conflicting report. How does it work? Our requirement was to avoid conflicting reports while still keeping News Trader Pro incredibly simple to use. We’re confident we’ve achieved this! Before you select the […]

Date: Wednesday 3rd January 2018 Time: 15:00 UTC Ideally we don’t want to see a conflict with any of components released at the same time, however the parameters should be wide enough to mitigate this....

Date: Thursday 28th December 2017 Time: 16:00 UTC Today we see the Crude Oil Inventories for the week. This isn’t a Forex figure, this is a figure for the Futures traders. As always, if you haven’t traded this figure before, please test it on the simulator, Crude Oil can be very volatile. When we trade...

Date: Friday 22nd December 2017 Time: 13:30 UTC CAD GDP MoM is due out at 13:30 UTC, and rounds off the figures for this week. There’s USD figures released at the same time. We don’t trade the USD figures, but it means that we’ll be trading CAD GDP MoM in EUR/CAD....

Date: Friday 22nd December 2017 Time: 09:30 UTC We see the final reading of GBP GDP QoQ. This figure rarely deviates more than +/0.1 from expectations and there is usually only a small reaction. We will be setting up to trade it with any deviation, but this is definitely not one of the better figures....