Canada Employment Change July 9 2021

JamesThatcher

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What does the data mean to the market?

Employment Change is the total number of people employed/changed in the previous month. More employment is positive for the Canadian dollar and would create a buy of CAD pairs. Also, at the same time comes the Unemployment Rate, which has the reverse impact; a higher Unemployment Rate is negative for the Canadian Dollar. More people in employment is good for the value of the currency as it indicates a stronger economy.




Historic deviations and their outcome

April 9 2021 Massive deviations across the 3 important lines of Employment Change, Full Time, and Unemployment Rate gave us a nice move, and the opportunity to bank a little profit!

Check out the price action here:

March 12 2021 Big deviation which saw a solid move, Strong Employment Change numbers and Unemployment Rate gave a 1.0% deviation from the forecast! In previous times we might have got more pips from these numbers but this still worked great.

Check out the price action here:




I will use forecasts of:

Empl Chg - Full Time 0
Employment Change 175
Unemployment Rate 7.8



Today's trade plan

It's not often we get to trade this Canadian report without having to worry about US Non-Farm Payrolls at the same time. Today is one of the rare occasions that we can trade it unincumbered.

If we see a deviation of 150k in either direction from the forecast on the headline Employment change, and no conflict with the Unemployment Rate, we should get a nice reaction on CAD pairs.

I will also watch the breakdown of Full and Part-Time employment numbers ensuring that the Full-Time figure doesn't conflict with the direction of the trade.


Tradable pairs

EURCAD
USDCAD


Hope this helps but please do your own analysis!!

Good luck!!

James Thatcher

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