What to trade around Australia Westpac Consumer Confidence Index news event

Based on the last 12 Westpac Consumer Confidence Index events in Australia, we expect USDCAD to trend downwards later today. Based on these past events there is a 71.43% chance of this. We expect USDCAD to trend downwards 4 hours following the event release at 14 Apr 10:30 if the released value is > 113. A price movement of 18 pips is expected.

Historical events that allowed us to draw this conclusion

09 Dec 12:30
14 Oct 10:30
09 Sep 10:30
10 Jun 10:30
13 May 10:30

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