United States Retail Sales MoM News Event – a $490 opportunity on GBPUSD

Based on the last 12 Retail Sales MoM events in United States, we expect GBPUSD to trend downwards later today. Based on these past events there is a 83.33% chance of this. We expect GBPUSD to trend downwards 4 hours following the event release at 2022-08-17 22:30 if the released value is < 0.1%. A price movement of 49 pips is expected. Historical events that allowed us to draw this conclusion

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