When trading Canadian Retail Sales, I recommend that you open and close your trades within the first 45 minutes of the report, because after 45 minutes, there will be other non-related market forces that will be affecting the currency pair.
With this Retail Sales report, it's quite simple. If you can get in within the first 15 pips of
pre-release price, most likely you can get away with a 15 pips
stop/loss and a potential profit of 20-30 pips or more. If you cannot get in within the first 15 pips, I definitely wouldn't chase it. Wait for it to
retrace within the first 5 minutes, and if it doesn't, then skip the trade.
Of course, the move will depend a lot on the difference between actual number and expected number. If the difference on the core Retail Sales is over 0.5, then you could even try to get in within first 20 pips.
I recommend trading USD/CAD on this report.
Please look at this Canadian Retail Sales USD/CAD chart:
Forex news trading currency exchange charts
As you can see, total move was more than 50 pips, and you would be able to get in within the first 20 pips if you wanted to.
Please look at the history of Canadian Retail Sales and the charts of how it affected USD/CAD and other currencies. Here is the link:
Forex News Trading | Details and History for CAD Core Retail Sales m/m
If you want me to email you 1 day before the Canadian Retail Sales report is released, and explain to you in details how to trade it, then please sign up for my free trading signals by going to this link:
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In the signal, I tell you exactly how many pips the currency will most likely move, depending on the difference between expected and actual numbers.
Canadian Retail Sales (after-spike retracement strategy) -
11-23-2009, 03:42 AM
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