Trump says will impose 25% tariff on Canada, Mexico

He's back to 25% ey

Volatile end to month.

lol not this guy again

I was wondering why my USD/CAD alerts were going crazy. A good week to close out at least. I'll take it.

It's like we're living in a movie. I do hope there is more tact going on behind the scenes than at the surface.

Quite volatile, glad I was all cash

shit going crazy hahahha

unbeliveble trump is king

WHY NOW

ECB's blown my account already

UsdCad washeading North. Look like some people positioned for it even b4 this announcement

My lovely man,350 pps dow in a minute

F U c K Liquidate In a middle of the night :/

I closed my long USD/CAD earlier today at a small profit, and then this guy showed up. Luckily I kept my short CAD/JPY position.

Bitcoin is next. He will pump it North.

Step away for 15 min and 100 pips in profit gone... at least I was set to break even

Nice… Could be a great opportunity to go short…

It's just crazy how he can manipulate the market.

dump yeaa down on 0

I lost on my winning trade because of his tweet

Where can i get early news coz Trump makes me look dumb

Why can't he do this after the market closes! I was in a hugely profitable trades and that all went away. Catching the move back up but I was leveraged in to multiple contracts on the bull trade so not exactly making the money back.

Wiped out all silent stuffs just at the end of the day.
Just because he wanted to…

Just realised my account zero out

$$$$

Damn, in one minute he wiped out all my profit. Never traded under Trump presidency. As a swing trader, gotta make some adjustments to strategy.

wallah if this guy says something while im sleeping...

Sounds like tonight there will be another announcement so expect volatility. Stick together brothers

and thanks tump for f my sl on 10 lot gbpcad
I still love you

Trump not cool, you chilling in P's next thing he tweets and you suddenly in losses

Definitely switching to a scalp-centric trading model. See profit, take profit.

DXY broke out of bearish channel that started the Jan 13th with this news. Looks to be sustaining above the trendline at the moment.. Eur/Usd to parity if this news is confirmed..?

Trump's doing that thing Elon used to do with crypto.

WE'RE SCREWED!!

As a scalper/swing trader I'll offer this: just realize that scalping doesn't help in situations like these...might even hurt more. Imagine having put on a trade 5 seconds before this (or any future) tweet which rips against you. You're completely screwed. That said, the markets have [mostly] shown that they will recover 30-60% of their down moves very soon after the rapid moves finalize, so there's something to be said about a strategy fading any "tweet-initiated down moves" (so either wait for them, or have capital at the ready).....BUT, the safer strategy, in light on having ZERO idea when he'll make statements, is to have longer-term trades and the capital to float your current positions through significant swings.

Floating things like the /rty dropping 1.3% in 2 minutes is extremely painful (regardless of the bounce off the drop). Particularly because it was FINALLY looking to close above the 50MA and break above. Oh well.

There's no easy way to say this, so I am just going to say it (helpful for new traders hopefully): You have to keep size small....or be capitalized to accommodate big hits. I've read comments above about accounts going to 'zero' on this news. Don't get me wrong, I took a hefty hit too being fully long US equities...and it hurts. BUT, a 1-2% drawdown in equities (even if it happens in 60 seconds), shouldn't wipe out an account. If it does, you are too highly levered and need to adjust your risk profile.

It's going to be a wild few years....so for those of you who aren't familiar, keep your risk in line, get long those US equities, and you'll survive to year 5

My humble opinion. During non-big calendar events hours. Trump will show up around 2 hours before NY session closes or 2 hours after. When he shows up, USD will be strong. So, USD-opposite pairs will go south. Wait 90 minutes and take profit. Now you have an idea of how to trade. Happy trading.

I certainly don't anymore. I was thinking Trump would soften his stance on tariffs considering the Colombia incident, the "rather not" for tariffs on China, wanting the Fed to lower interest rates, etc. Then we get back to his original convictions with an exclamation. Too many mixed signals. Watching the charts, I definitely see some tempting scalps, but that's not how I trade. Just got to wait and see how Feb 1 plays out and trade accordingly knowing a tweet at any moment can take you to paradise or send you to doom.

AAPL earnings call should boost the /nq a bit after hours. Not sure how PCE will affect things tomorrow AM, but I suspect not too much (because it can be extrapolated based on PPI/CPI fairly well...so lower chance of a surprise).

I would very much like to see a +400 pt /nq day to get out of a few contracts, but I'll be hanging onto the majority of my position over the weekend (and for the foreseeable future). It's going to be a nerve wrecking few days though as Trump has promised tariffs 2/1 and will likely do at LEAST 5 additional crazy things between now and the Sunday open.

Best of luck to you VC....and everyone out there!

Forex Factory has a high-impact Event story every 2 hours: Trump's tweet !

Guys with all due respect, the eur/usd only move about 250 pips since Trump took office, and we are right back 50% of the total move, eur/usd only move about 100 pips in a good day and it's been lots of up and down, if you get stop out in 100 pips you are destined to loose money, I'll say more stops are for amateurs, you could have won every position you took in any direction in the last couple of weeks assuming you don't know how to identify the direction of the next move. I don't claim to be an expert, but I made 50% of the total in most of my accounts since the 20th 100% winners, take advantage of the volatility! Like I said you could have won just about any position in any direction assuming you don't know any better, but stop lost is asking for the algorithm and the big institutional players to kill you. You need a mental hard stop, what ever you can afford to lose a mile away and let it run wild, nowing how to identify where the big fish wants to swim helps, big time frames for S/R and cot report. Good luck and happy 2025 I know I'll spark some haters, but if this could help a new trader it's all worth it.

This POTUS is too impulsive and wants to be the loudest voice in the room, so you'll have to change your strategy to suit.

Gold and silver don't react as much to the baby's tweets. Gold is great for scalping as well do to liquidity, low spreads and you can trade it every session.

Waiting to see real implementation from US at Saturday and possible answer to avoid any tarrif, or retaliation from Mexico & Canada.

Amazing how stupid he is:

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/01/30/w...nyl-trump.html