Saturday, July 22, 2006

Trade setup for this week (week of July 23 )

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Sunday

  • 9:30 PM AUS PPI
i will not trade this release.
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Monday july 24th

  • 8:30am CAN Retail Sales m/m

Forecast: 0.3%

I'll be looking for a 0.2%-0.3% deviation from forecast

Long USDCAN if Sales are 0.1 or lower%
Short USDCAN if Sales are up 0.5% or higher

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results:
+17 pips -Long USDCAD after worse than expected retail sales (-0.6%)
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Tuesday july 25th


  • 4:00am E-12 Current Account

Dont look for any big movement on this, if it happens it happens. This one is an experiment
for me. In other words, no high expectations

Forecast: 1.1B

Long EURUSD if Current Account is 1.5B or higher.
Short EURUSD if -0.3B or less

I will be observing the JPN Trade Balance at 7:50Pm to see how it correlates with the charts
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Wednesday july 26th





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Thursday july 26th
  • 8:30am USA Durable Goods Orders

Concensus:1.9%

I'll be looking for a 1.2% deviation

Long EURUSD/GBPUSD if 0.7% or less
Short EURUSD/GBPUSD if 3.2% or more

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  • 10:00am USA New Home Sales
Previous: 1.23M
Forecast: ~1.16M

Long EURUSD/GBPUSD if 1.0M or less
Short EURUSD/GBPUSD if 1.23M or more

I dont expect nothing much from this trade so i will
be trading half as much as i usually do
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Friday july 27th

  • 8:30 AM US:Gross Domestic Product
Previous: 3.1%
Forecast:
3.5%

Long EURUSD/GBPUSD if Gross Domestic Product 2.8% or Less
Short if
3.7% or more



Results for the Week

GDP on friday came out worse than expected, about 2.5% growth.

i made +23 pips off that report on eur, and 44 off GDP

+ 17 pips from CAD retail sales, couln't catch all the movement got in a second or two late, missed out on about 20 pips.

Consumer confidence was not mentioned above, but i made pips off it. +31 pips

total of pips for week: 115 pips
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