Welcome to my FX News Trading Journal. I trade the news, and most of the time with EUR/USD. Today we only have one piece of action: Unemployment Claims http://www.forexfactory.com/calendar.php But I will also watch Crude Oil Inventories. Let's see what happens...
Very mixed data. Jobless Claims fell with 94.000 but the total jobless rolls jumped to a 26-year high: http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601087&sid=aSPZtRJBBP6M&refer=home And very strange action: EUR/USD jumped 40 pips, while GBP/USD fell 40 pips. Because of the mixed data I did not trade the news.
I'm looking at GBPUSD.... would you trade this as a retest of the prior triple bottom...taking a short above 1.4600?
Second thoughts about Jobless Claims: I should have traded the news with EUR/JPY - it went right up 120 pips after the news. Very nice action.
Tomorrow Friday we have two major news events: UK Halifax HPI and US ISM data: http://www.forexfactory.com/calendar.php Stay tuned.
The UK data involved no big surprises - so no trade. It's also difficult to make news trades in Cable because of the 10-15-20 pips spreads just after the news.
Nice move in EUR/USD after the ISM data. PS. I can't understand the rally in stock indexes after such bad news, but who cares?
We will have a lot of important tradeable news this week - starting tomorrow: http://www.forexfactory.com/calendar.php