What to trade around Euro Area Consumer Confidence Flash news event

Based on the last 12 Consumer Confidence Flash events in Euro Area, we expect AUDUSD to trend downwards later today. Based on these past events there is a 80% chance of this. We expect AUDUSD to trend downwards 4 hours following the event release at 24 Mar 02:00 if the released value is > -14.2. A price movement of 16 pips is expected.

Historical events that allowed us to draw this conclusion

21 Feb 02:00
22 Nov 02:00
21 Sep 00:00
24 Jul 00:00

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