Monthly Archives: October 2018

Forex News Trading: Trade for Thursday, November 1, 2018

Posted on October 31, 2018 by Barry Battista

8:00 AM EDT UK Official Bank Rate GBP/USD The forecast is for the rate to be left at 0.75% and I’m sure it will. But the forecast for the 9-member committee that votes on future increases is 0-0-9 which means … Continue reading →

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Forex News Trading: Trade for Wednesday, October 31, 2018

Posted on October 30, 2018 by Barry Battista

8:30 AM EDT CAD GDP USD/CAD In July we saw .2 with a 28 pip spike. Not a huge spike but for a change it continued to push another 20 pips over the next 2 minutes before retracing so there … Continue reading →

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Forex News Trading: Trade for Tuesday, October 30, 2018

Posted on October 29, 2018 by Barry Battista

8:30 PM EDT AUD CPI q/q AUD/USD In January we saw -.1, -.1, and -.2 with a 24 pip spike. We were hoping for a buy and it came out as a sell. The spike was ok and within 13 … Continue reading →

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Forex News Trading: Trades for week of October 28 – November 2, 2018

Posted on October 26, 2018 by Barry Battista

This past week the only trade of significance was the CAD interest rate. They raised the rate as expected, causing a 35 pip spike down but it retraced the entire way within 2 seconds, before falling back down 80 pips … Continue reading →

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Forex News Trading: Trade for Friday, October 26, 2018

Posted on October 25, 2018 by Barry Battista

8:30 AM EDT US Advance GDP q/q EUR/USD I don’t have any data for the January release. In April we saw .3, -.2, and .1 with a 10 pip spike. There was a small spike with full retracement in the … Continue reading →

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Forex News Trading: Trade for Wednesday, October 24, 2018

Posted on October 23, 2018 by Barry Battista

10:00 AM EDT CAD Overnight Rate USD/CAD It appears the BoC is going to raise the rate by .25%. The market is pricing in a 90% chance that this will happen, so obviously the best trade would be if they … Continue reading →

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Forex News Trading Trades for week of October 21 – 26, 2018

Posted on October 19, 2018 by Barry Battista

There were a number of trades this past week. Not much in the way of movement though. I got in on the AUD Employment, which turned out to be a poor mover due to the huge discrepancy in the two … Continue reading →

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Forex News Trading: Trade for Friday, October 19, 2018

Posted on October 18, 2018 by Barry Battista

8:30 AM EDT CAD CPI USD/CAD In July we saw 0 and .8 with a 60 pip spike. The slippage on my 4 stations ranged from 37 to 45 pips. The CPI came out at zero and Retail Sales at … Continue reading →

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Forex News Trading: Trade for Thursday, October 18, 2018

Posted on October 17, 2018 by Barry Battista

4:30 AM EDT UK Retail Sales GBP/USD In July we saw -.6 with a 29 pip spike. It moved 29 in the first minute on the decent deviation and pushed down another few pips over the next couple minutes before … Continue reading →

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Forex News Trading: Trades for Wednesday, October 17, 2018

Posted on October 16, 2018 by Barry Battista

4:30 AM EDT UK CPI y/y GBP/USD In July the deviation was -.2 with a 44 pip spike. It pushed down 44 pips in the first minute, retracing most of it in the second minute before falling a total of … Continue reading →

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