Wednesday, February 9, 2011

China hikes rate and Aussie plummets!


We had a quiet session again yesterday, as there wasn’t much data out.

Aussie took a beating on the back of the rate hike by China, as we see it slide down 60 pips. Right now we saw the Aussie push down further to below to 1.0109 as stops were triggered.

German trade balance came out a little lower at 11.9bn vs the consensus of 12bn. Not much of reaction on the Euro as it still looks range-bound in asian session.

What a bummer! Missed out on the Aussie move! It definitely looked like a good sell in the morning, but I was waiting for my entry trigger which happened while I was stuck in a meeting!

Oh well! There’s always a next time.


Data today
German Trade Balance – 7am GMT
UK Trade Balance - 9.30am GMT
US Fed Bernanke testifies – 3pm GMT



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