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At 8:30 AM ET on election day in the U.S., Statistics Canada will release its monthly Building Permits news, which measures the total value of new permits and provides a potential indication for future construction projects. Market reaction trends to this news have consitantly leaned towards...

Trading binary options on Nadex is different from trading with other brokers. Nadex is an exchange, not a broker, and is regulated by the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) as a Designated Contract Market and Derivatives Clearing Organization. The CFTC is a US government agency...

Friday morning 8:30 a.m. ET, four reports will be released regarding sales and pricing data for the U.S. Retail Sales and Core Retail Sales are expected to be up 0.6 percent and 0.4 percent respectively, although September saw both down slightly at -0.3 percent and -0.1 percent respectively. The...

The timing of the massive Cable Flash Crash, which affected the GBP/USD forex market, happened during the most illiquid time of the 24-hour FX day. It was post-New York and pre-Tokyo, pre-Hong Kong and pre-Singapore. In a time when the GBP/USD market is usually quiet. Instead, the bottom fell out...

Mixing butterflies and natural gas may not sound like a good combination. However, when analyzing the natural gas chart shows it has been trading in a channel or has been range bound for a number of days, using a binary butterfly strategy may prove advantageous.  Every Thursday, at 10:30 a...

Sometimes evening trading can be slow. When trying to trade in the evening, checking out what news is being released can be helpful in finding trade opportunities. Market reaction to the news event can be tracked. When there is consistency in the market movement, this is when the trader has the...

Gross Domestic Product (GDP) will be released Friday, September 30, at 8:30 AM ET by Statistics Canada. GDP is the broadest look of the economy’s health and activity. This news can make for a trade opportunity when there is implied volatility in the market. A majority of the time, the...

Binaries seem to be all the rage for traders these days. Trading binaries on a U.S. based CFTC regulated exchange such as Nadex is definitely the route to go when trading them. Another kind of instrument offered by Nadex is spreads. Spreads, unlike binaries, are not all or nothing at settlement....

Certain kinds of news can be traded. If the news is scheduled, the market for trading has consistency in its kind of moves and number of pips moved in reaction to said news, then that is the ideal kind of news for trading. Since it is unknown what the details of the scheduled news will include,...

The annualized, but released quarterly, U.S. Gross Domestic Product (GDP) and unemployment news will be released Thursday at 8:30 a.m. ET. Based on the average market reaction from past news releases, the GDP news can make for a trade opportunity. Moves tend to be a pullback after a move, right...

News scheduled for evening release can be good for evening traders because forex markets move when news is released. If the movements are tracked and consistent moves are found, a strategy can be used to place a high probability trade. Wednesday evening is such an occasion. The Bank of England...

On September 9, the VIX had a one-day spike of 40 percent. This is a rare event. As reported in an article in Real Money, statistics showed that there were 33 times with a VIX rally greater than 20.7 percent. When this happens, it is usually followed by a bounce the next week and then a pullback...

Various reports are due out for Canada on pricing and retail sales Friday at 8:30 a.m. ET. News indicating what the economy is doing tends to impact the market, and when it's a scheduled event we can predict when that movement is going to happen. The only thing left is making sure there is...

The Census Bureau will be releasing numbers Tuesday on U.S. Building Permits and Housing Starts. The last set of numbers was a mixed bag, with the number of building permits decreasing from June to July and housing starts hitting the highest level since February. Expectations are that housing...

The Institute for Supply Management will release the U.S. Purchasing Managers Index Thursday at 10:00 a.m. ET. The numbers are based on a survey of 400 purchasing managers in the manufacturing industry asked to rate the level of business conditions. Businesses must react quickly to changes in...