Trade with an edge around todays Japan Consumer Confidence news event

We expect GBPUSD to trend downwards for the next 48 hours. Based on these past Japan Consumer Confidence news events there is a 75% chance of this. We expect this to happen because the released value is > 31. A price movement of 136 pips is expected.

Historical events that allowed us to draw this conclusion

31 May 15:00
02 May 15:00
29 Oct 16:00

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