Tuesday 30th January
USD CB Consumer Confidence @ 3.00pm
Forecast: 113.9
Wednesday 20th December
Forecast:104.6
Actual:110.7 (Better than expected)
XAUUSD
Price dropped 75 pips on the news and continued a slow downtrend for the rest of the session
Trend - Overall bullish and pulled back
Scenarios
Actual/Better(higher) - Gold Sells
Worse (lower) - Gold Buys
USD JOLTS Job Openings @ 3.00pm
Forecast: 8.73M
Wednesday 3rd January
Forecast: 8.84M
Actual:8.79M
XAUUSD
Gold pushed up 110 pips then retraced and closed weak bearish
Trend - Bearish and continued
Scenarios
Actual/Better(higher) - Gold Sells
Worse (lower) - Gold Buys
Wednesday 31st January
USD ADP @ 1.15pm
Forecast:143K
Thursday 4th January
Forecast: 120K
Actual: 164K (Better than expected)
XAUUSD
Gold dropped 40 pips on the initial news release and continued bearish for the next M30 candle
Trend - Overall bullish - ranging
Scenarios
Actual/Better(higher) - Gold Sells
Worse (lower) - Gold Buys
USD Federal Funds Rate @ 7.00pm
Forecast: 5.50%
Wednesday 13th December
Forecast: 5.50%
Actual: 5.50%
XAUUSD
Price pushed bullish 250 pips and continued bullish until the end of the session
Trend - Bearish but flipped bullish after news
Scenarios
Actual/Better(higher) - Gold Sells
Worse(lower) - Gold Buys
Thursday 1st February
GBP Official Bank Rate @ 12.00pm
Forecast: 5.25%
Thursday 14th December
Forecast:5.25%
Actual:5.25%
GBPJPY
GBPJPY pushed bullish 110 pips during the news release
Trend - Bearish, bullish pullback after news
Scenarios
Actual/Better -GBPJPY Buys
Worse - GBPJPY Sells
USD ISM Manufacturing PMI @ 3.00pm
Forecast: 47.0
Wednesday 3rd January
Forecast: 47.2
Actual: 49.1 (Better than expected)
XAUUSD
Gold pushed up 110 pips then retraced and closed weak bearish
Trend - Bearish and continued
Scenarios
Actual/Better(higher) - Gold Sells
Worse (lower) - Gold Buys
Friday 2nd February
USD NFP @ 1.30pm
Forecast:177K
Friday 5th January
Forecast: 168K
Actual: 218K (Better than expected)
XAUUSD
Gold dropped 140 pips then retraced and closed weak bullish
Trend - Bullish and continued
Scenarios
Actual/Better(higher) - Gold Sells
Worse(lower) - Gold Buys
USD Revised UoM Consumer Sentiment @ 3.00pm
Forecast: 78.8
Friday 22nd December
Forecast: 69.4
Actual: 69.7
XAUUSD
Gold dropped 42 pips then reversed and pushed bullish 72 pips
Trend - Overall bullish and closed bullish after a pullback, leaving a long daily top wick
Scenarios
Actual/Better(higher) - Gold Sells
Worse(lower) - Gold Buys
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