US trade balance - better or worse?

5:30am USDTrade Balance http://www.forexfactory.com/images/m...mpact_high.gif -58.5B
-63.5B-62.4Bhttp://www.forexfactory.com/images/m...us_revised.gif


Could someone tell me why the latest number -58.5 is shown as green (positive) on the calender when it came in less than expected or is it a mistake. thanks

i think it's probably a mistake.

LOL

-58.5 is greater than -63.5. higher number = better.

of cource we are dealing with minus numbers here.
My only excuse is that I was up all night.
Now if I may be excused I am going to take my red face to bed.

I think for the less math inclined we should say a LESS Negative number is better

postive number greater is better than less and negative number lesser is better than greate

I have another problem with this Trade Balance

It released way better than expected (Dev = 5B) but market moved only 20-25 pip and then reversed but I think with this dev it must moved at least 40 -50 pip ... so what happened or am I wrong ?