Monthly Archives: April 2019

Forex News Trading: Trade for Wednesday, May 1, 2019

Posted on April 30, 2019 by Barry Battista

2:00 PM EDT US Federal Funds Rate EUR/USD The US economy is strong and inflation seems to be under control so there is no motivation to change the rates. Economists are expecting them to hold the rate steady at 2.50% … Continue reading →

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Forex News Trading: Trades for Tuesday, April 30, 2019

Posted on April 29, 2019 by Barry Battista

8:30 AM EDT CAD GDP USD/CAD In January we saw a deviation of 0 with a 17 pip spike. It appears to have spiked down 12 or so a few seconds before the data came out and another 17 after … Continue reading →

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Forex News Trading: Trades for week of April 28 – May 3, 2019

Posted on April 26, 2019 by Barry Battista

This past week we saw why news trading can be very lucrative from time to time. As you are probably aware, the only news events that tend to really move and make us some money these days are the interest … Continue reading →

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Forex News Trading: Trade for Friday, April 26, 2019

Posted on April 25, 2019 by Barry Battista

8:30 AM EDT US Advance GDP q/q EUR/USD In July we saw -.1 with a 6 pip spike. Very small initial move. The forecast was a huge 4.2% and it came out at 4.1%. The markets wrestled around with this … Continue reading →

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Forex News Trading: Trade for Wednesday, April 24, 2019

Posted on April 23, 2019 by Barry Battista

10:00 AM EDT CAD Overnight Rate USD/CAD It is expected the BoC will leave the rate unchanged at 1.75%. Most economists (90%) think the rate will be held at the current level. Interestingly 40% of them believe the rate will … Continue reading →

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Forex News Trading: Trade for Tuesday, April 23, 2019

Posted on April 22, 2019 by Barry Battista

9:30 PM EDT AUD CPI q/q AUD/USD In July we saw a deviation of -.1 and 0 with a 12 pip spike. The deviation was very small and the spike was small, retracing way past where it started within 30 … Continue reading →

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Forex News Trading: Trades for week of April 21 – 26, 2019

Posted on April 19, 2019 by Barry Battista

It was a strange week on both the news trading and swing trading fronts. First lets look the news trades. The biggest surprise was the one I chose not to post and that is the NZD CPI q/q. The Kiwi … Continue reading →

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Forex News Trading: Trades for Wednesday, April 17, 2019

Posted on April 16, 2019 by Barry Battista

4:30 AM EDT UK CPI y/y GBP/USD In January the deviation was 0 but I don;t have any movement data for it. In February we saw -.1 with a 7 pip move. Barely any movement on the small deviation. In … Continue reading →

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Forex News Trading: Trades for week of April 14 – 19, 2019

Posted on April 12, 2019 by Barry Battista

Last week was another slow one with no swing trades and a couple news releases with small deviations. For the upcoming week the trades I will post are: Wed 4:30 AM – UK CPI y/y Wed 8:30 AM – CAD … Continue reading →

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Forex News Trading: Trades for Wednesday, April 10, 2019

Posted on April 9, 2019 by Barry Battista

4:30 AM EDT UK GDP m/m GBP/USD In January the deviation was .1 but I don’t have any other data. In February we saw -.4 and -.1 with a 19 pip spike. Small move for a big deviation. It retraced … Continue reading →

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