What does the data mean to the market?
The Consumer Price Index (CPI) measures the price of goods and services from the consumer's perspective. It is a key way to measure changes in purchasing trends and inflation.
A higher than expected reading is positive/bullish for the CAD, while a lower than expected reading is negative/bearish.
Historic deviations and their outcome
April 21 2021 Small but conflicting deviations didn't create any significant move, so no trade for me.
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March 17 2021 Small deviations managed to create small moves, nothing exciting, though, and the retraces were swift and dangerous.
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February 17 2021 Small deviations again created a feeble move.
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I will use forecasts of:
CPI (M/M) 0.4
CPI (Y/Y) 3.5
CPI Core - Common (Y/Y) 1.8
CPI Core - Median (Y/Y) 2.4
CPI Core - Trim (Y/Y) 2.4
Today's trade plan
Canadian CPI data is slowly moving more into focus as we approach the July tapering of assets purchases. I hope that now is the right time to see some nice moves when a reasonable deviation should occur.
Therefore today, I will need an unlikely 0.4 deviation from the forecast in either direction from the headline CPI M/M (month on month), including supporting deviations of 0.1 in the same direction as the headline from the other four lines of data that come out at the same time.
Without the comprehensive deviations on all lines, we may not find any continuation to bring us safety and profit.
Tradable pairs
EURCAD
GBPCAD
USDCAD
Hope this helps but please do your own analysis!!
Good luck!!
James Thatcher
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