Trading FX on International News

[WanderingWOW]

Hey all, just looking for some help from all you who still trade fundementals. I have been tracking US economic fundemental news and its impact on the market and have found the following moves the market, some more, some less but enough to pay attention (looking mostly short term):

US Chicago NAPM
US Consumer Price Index
US Consumer Confidence
US Durable Goods
US GDP
US Retail sales (sometimes)
US Industrial Production
US Trade Balance
US Non-farm Payroll (NFP)

The two obvious movers I have noticed for forex is the US Non-farm Payroll, and US Trade Balance.

What I am looking for is the monthly, obvious forex moving International Economic News Releases.

Anyone help me on this one? Thx ahead of time for you help on this one folks.

[MickMason]

I don't trade fundamentals as such so this is just a guess.....interest rates? The latest wave of Fed hikes seems to have attracted more dollar denominated asset aquisitions.

My , I guess I'll need change

Mick

[l0l0fx]

I hope this article helps:

http://dailyfx.com/index.php?option=...=975&Itemid=39

[hoene003]

You can check this out.


http://www.dailyfx.com/index.php?opt...=819&Itemid=46

[WanderingWOW]

Thx guys, this was exactly what I was looking for!!! PERFECT!!!

[q827]

yeah tx for those

[Gamma_Jammer]

The trick when trading fundamentals is not in obtaining a 'top ten' list of market moving data releases, it's in determining which of these, at any given point in time, is the one that the market is REALLY keying on. Sometimes it's employment data, sometimes consumer confidence, sometimes rate differentials, sometimes oil inventories or whatever.

Then you also need to have some understanding of what the true market expectations are. What was the previous month's figure? Has there been a revision? Is there any seasonal or other, ad hoc distortional effect? Is it a volatile or sedate data series? Has some previous (correlated or related) data release given us a clue as to roughly what to expect? Does THIS release give us a clue about some future release?

Complicated I know, but this stuff is part of the fun. And it's also why you can't just master the market in 6 months.

GJ

[q827]

Originally Posted by Gamma_Jammer

The trick when trading fundamentals is not in obtaining a 'top ten' list of market moving data releases, it's in determining which of these, at any given point in time, is the one that the market is REALLY keying on. Sometimes it's employment data, sometimes consumer confidence, sometimes rate differentials, sometimes oil inventories or whatever.

Then you also need to have some understanding of what the true market expectations are. What was the previous month's figure? Has there been a revision? Is there any seasonal or other, ad hoc distortional effect? Is it a volatile or sedate data series? Has some previous (correlated or related) data release given us a clue as to roughly what to expect? Does THIS release give us a clue about some future release?

Complicated I know, but this stuff is part of the fun. And it's also why you can't just master the market in 6 months.

GJ

agreed. though, i'd rather have expert analysts interpret it for me