trading after the news

Hi All
Which are the news items that provide the most action after the announcement.
The last couple of days of news items have produced very little action. Is this typical of core cpi, building permits, unemployment claims, etc.
Which news items usually provide a sure fire reaction?
thanks
emtee

I don't know, but it's an interesting subject. I've only read and demoed on forex news (GBPUSD only) regularly the past few weeks, and avoid interpreting the news solely to trade on, instead working with technicals.

Yesterday's 11:30 GBP news did 30, and Wednesday had a tandem 11:30 news and 11:45 meeting for a 33 and 65, respectively.

FF's calendar has lots of good material in the red-flag news' "details" buttons which may help you.

For the news, I only trade with NFP,

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yeah, you can trade NFP, retail sales and those are red label on impact as well... but make sure you demo first before trading live, coz i've burn some pips coz of news trading.. Unless you got a good system that can trade news...

The news that are marked with a red and orange color icon on FF calendar tend to affect the market the most. Most of the times the level of impact depends on how wrong the economists were on their prediction ie. difference between the actual and the expectation.

i can advice a news-map... here is the theory :
i did traded news a lot in past.. and still concidering and predicting them as i am watching my open positions.. maybe it is a hint :
i gues FF daily calendar helps , sure red-flags etc. but further , it is very usefull to concider FF daily calendar fully , and concider all the red-flags etc in relations... i mean , making a news map in your head , for each sessions , London , New york , asia etc.
some examples :
1) in newyork session , there is a red-flag new but also after an hour , Bernanke will testify. so i assume Bernanke testify will have impact.. so , the red-flag new prior the testify , will have not much impact , i suppose.
2) some red-flags on same time , mostly in usd news... some 2 or 3 news. so it may be hard to predict the impacts or it will cause some opposite movements in just a minute , etc.
you can consider and use that news map-theory invidually , but i must say , news trading is no easy and high risk always.
best wishes for all.

I've started news trading recently, placing trades a minute or 2 after the news, so after the initial spike. I've gone back over a fair bit of data to research the impact of different news items. I definitely wouldn't just start trying to trade all the red news items of the calendar willy nilly.

- Most of the red news on the calendar will not move the market much and are not tradable in my opinion.
- The current focus of the market can change news items from being tradable to non-tradable and vice versa.
-You need to work out how big the variance needs to be from the forecast to make a tradable move. Again this will change depending on the current market focus and how traders are positioned given their expectations pre news versus how the positioning may change after the news. That's why sometimes price will move in the opposite direction than it 'should'
- The forecasts on the forexfactory calendar (and other sites calendars)are not always accurate and you will need to do a bit more research on a news item to find the markets true expectation (are there rumours of the figure effecting expectation etc)

I suppose in summary it's a very inexact science and takes a fair bit of work and patience, but can definitely be lucrative to those prepared to put in the work.

at all... you are almost right
re: "I've gone back over a fair bit of data " how back you had gone?
news do not work in crisis....
recently they work....

today's gbp Man PMI was more than excellent...