Monthly Archives: October 2017

Forex News Trading: Trade for Wednesday, November 1, 2017

Posted on October 31, 2017 by Barry Battista

2:00 PM EDT US Federal Funds Rate USD/JPY The expectation for a rate hike is still set for December, so the market does not anticipate one now. The statement will likely provide some volatility as well. It is expected that … Continue reading →

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Forex News Trading: Trades for Tuesday, October 31, 2017

Posted on October 30, 2017 by Barry Battista

8:30 AM EDT CAD GDP USD/CAD In July we saw .4 with a 13 pip spike. I traded the EUR/CAD on this. The spike took in my sell and then it pushed pretty hard to about 25 before retracing and … Continue reading →

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Forex News Trading: Trades for week of October 30 – November 3, 2017

Posted on October 27, 2017 by Barry Battista

Before getting into this, lets have a look at a couple notable trades from this past week. First a general observation. In the past if you got into an interest rate trade and they did not change the rates, really … Continue reading →

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Forex News Trading: Trade for Friday, October 27, 2017

Posted on October 26, 2017 by Barry Battista

It’s been a strange albeit profitable week. I will provide details of my experiences in the weekly post for next week when I post it tomorrow. 8:30 AM EDT US Advance GDP q/q EUR/USD or USD/JPY In January we saw … Continue reading →

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Forex News Trading: Trade for Thursday, October 26, 2017

Posted on October 25, 2017 by Barry Battista

7:45 AM EDT EUR Minimum Bid Rate EUR/USD With this, the odds of an interest rate change are infinitesimally small. The ECB has been printing Euros to the tune of about 60 billion per month for some time now to … Continue reading →

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Forex News Trading: Trades for Wednesday, October 25, 2017

Posted on October 24, 2017 by Barry Battista

4:30 AM EDT UK Prelim GDP q/q GBP/USD In January we saw .1 with no spike. It looks like there was very little initial movement but over the next hour it pushed down about 50 pips despite coming out as … Continue reading →

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Forex News Trading: Trade for Tuesday, October 24, 2017

Posted on October 23, 2017 by Barry Battista

8:30 PM EDT (not 9:30 like usual) AUD CPI q/q AUD/JPY or AUD/USD In January it came out at -.2 and -.1 with a 43 pip spike according to one of the other traders. I was not available for this … Continue reading →

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Forex News Trading: Trades for week of October 22 – 27, 2017

Posted on October 20, 2017 by Barry Battista

Well, last week was a dud for me even though we had the biggest spike I have seen in awhile on one of the trades. I didn’t get up for either of the UK trades and missed the AUD Employment … Continue reading →

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Forex News Trading: Trade for Friday, October 20, 2017

Posted on October 19, 2017 by Barry Battista

8:30 AM EDT CAD CPI USD/CAD In July we saw 0 and -.1 with a 17 pip spike. It spiked down 17 then retraced about 8 within a few seconds. Relatively big move for such a small deviation. I traded … Continue reading →

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Forex News Trading: Trade for Thursday, October 19, 2017

Posted on October 18, 2017 by Barry Battista

4:30 AM EDT UK Retail Sales GBP/USD I haven’t looked at this one in quite a long time but took a look last month and was very pleasantly surprised at the movement. In September we saw .8 with a 67 … Continue reading →

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