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The most important news events

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To the very experienced currency traders here what are the most important news events that MUST be taken notice of?

 

Please feel free to elaborate and opine as much as you like.

Dr.

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Interest rate announcements are of course the most important news events, but any other news report that can directly impact interest rate views (economic growth reports, inflation reports, etc) are also very important to watch (first-tier releases). I would recommend reading the following link, which enumerates the most market moving news events of 2006. It will probably answer most of your questions concerning this.

 

http://freeforexebooks.com/Fundamentals/MostMarketMoving.pdf

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This week seems to be everyone wants to report everything that can be and should be measured and was measured. In short, for non-news traders, this week was a small vacation since no trend (swing and higher) was sight. Prices were all over the place and stops were gunned every which they were sitting at.

 

Take a look at the economic calendar and you'll see it's packed with dates and times.

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Here are some news releases with a lot of market moving potential at the moment. I say at the moment as a lot depends on the times. For example at the start of the panic in 2008, housing data was really important, as it was real estate that caused a lot of the mess.

 

Anyway these are the ones I concentrate on...

 

In no particular order:

 

1) NFP and employment reports (for any country - although the US non farm payrolls is the elep[hant in the room)

 

2) Monetary policy statements and Interest rate announcements.

 

Especially if they are a surprise. For example Canada recently surprised the market with a hike in September - this moved the USD/CAD pair a good 250 pips over the next few days.

 

3) CPI figures.

 

4) Retail Sales - can be a market mover for certain countries - especially consumer driven ones like GBP, AUS, USD, EUR.

 

5) Existing Home sales

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Wow. This is an old thread. You could start a "where are they now?" :)

 

A good way of keeping track of which news events might matter is the Forex Factory front page. If you open an account you can filter by the currencies that you are interested in - and it also shows holidays (like your one tomorrow that I'd forgotten about).

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Interest rate announcements are of course the most important news events, but any other news report that can directly impact interest rate views (economic growth reports, inflation reports, etc) are also very important to watch (first-tier releases). I would recommend reading the following link, which enumerates the most market moving news events of 2006. It will probably answer most of your questions concerning this.

 

freeforexebooks.com - freeforexebooks Resources and Information.

 

Hello,

 

Does anyone have an updated link for the MostMarketMoving.pdf file? Alternatively if anyone would care to upload it somewhere and share the link it would be most appreciated.

 

Thanks,

Laurus

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