What to trade around United Kingdom Balance of Trade news event

Based on the last 12 Balance of Trade events in United Kingdom, we expect USDJPY to trend downwards later today. Based on these past events there is a 75% chance of this. We expect USDJPY to trend downwards 2 hours following the event release at 14 Jul 16:00 if the released value is > £-0.8B. A price movement of 39 pips is expected.

Historical events that allowed us to draw this conclusion

12 Jun 16:00
11 Mar 20:30
11 Feb 20:30
10 Oct 19:30
09 Aug 18:30
10 Jul 18:30

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