Trade with an edge around todays Canada BoC Interest Rate Decision news event

Based on past Canada BoC Interest Rate Decision news events there is a 72.73% chance of USDJPY trending downwards. We expect this to happen if the released value is = 0.25%. A price movement of 16 pips is expected.

Historical events that allowed us to draw this conclusion

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07 Mar 02:00

All references to movement sizes are expressed assuming a lot size of 100,000 units (“standard account”).