What to trade around United Kingdom Inflation Rate YoY news event

Based on the last 12 Inflation Rate YoY events in United Kingdom, we expect GBPUSD to trend upwards later today. Based on these past events there is a 87.5% chance of this. We expect GBPUSD to trend upwards 2 hours following the event release at 19 Jan 18:00 if the released value is > 5.2%. A price movement of 31 pips is expected.

Historical events that allowed us to draw this conclusion

15 Dec 18:00
17 Nov 18:00
15 Sep 16:00
14 Jul 16:00
16 Jun 16:00
17 Feb 18:00
20 Jan 18:00

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