2017issue C0630-32
Closing a Friday news fade into one entry and exit procedure
Friday currency sessions are described as typically quiet unless scheduled economic figures are released. After selected Friday data, the archive fade waits a short interval, enters opposite the first post-release move, and either exits by fixed rules or stands aside when the print does not move the market.
- Limit this fade to Friday sessions that carry scheduled data. The same setup on other weekdays is treated as out of scope.
- After a market-moving Friday print, wait ten minutes and enter opposite the first post-release impulse, using hourly or 30-minute bars with no indicators.
- Hold inside a fixed envelope: 1% of capital, a 50-pip stop, a 100-pip objective, a planned 1:2 ratio, no trailing or breakeven stop, and a nine-hour maximum hold.
- Skip the fade when the release has little or no market effect, prefer USD and CAD pairs when those currencies are affected, and paper-trade the full wait, filter, and exit loop as one procedure.
A quiet Friday unless data prints
Friday currency sessions are described as typically quiet unless scheduled economic figures are released. The setup is a mean-reversion fade: after selected Friday data, wait a short interval and enter opposite the first post-release move.
That post-release fade assumes the first spike after the selected data can reverse before the session ends. Intended charts are hourly or 30-minute bars with no indicators.
Friday timing is part of the entry
The fade is limited to Friday sessions, when scheduled data often arrives after the day's high or low has already printed. Weekday timing is therefore part of the entry decision rather than a loose preference.
The same fade on weekdays other than Friday is treated as out of scope.
Enter only after a market-moving print
Enter only after a market-moving Friday print, in the opposite direction of the first post-release impulse, once a fixed wait has elapsed and the pair filter is met.
After bearish news, the long is taken 10 minutes later opposite the immediate post-news move. After bullish news, the short is the inverse.
Hold inside a fixed exit envelope
Stated risk controls are 1% of capital per trade, a 50-pip stop, a 100-pip objective, and a planned 1:2 ratio. There is no trailing stop and no breakeven stop. The maximum hold is nine hours.
Those controls form a fixed exit envelope: hold with a predetermined stop, objective, risk fraction, and maximum duration.
Pairs and a Friday ticket cap
USD and CAD pairs are preferred when Friday data is expected to move those currencies. Friday activity is capped at two to four trades, depending on whether one or both currencies are affected.
A dated Friday case and an unusual session
On 10 June 2016 at 13:30 GMT, Canadian employment-change and unemployment figures were used as a case. CADJPY rose then fell. USDCAD fell then recovered toward the 100-pip objective. EURCAD showed a later reversal, even though only two tickets were taken that day.
3 June 2016 USD unemployment data is cited as an unusual Friday that kept trending into the close. That session stays inside the Friday record. It is not a reason to run the same fade on other weekdays.
Paper-trade the whole loop
The write-up tells readers to watch Friday sessions that carry scheduled data and to paper-trade the full wait, entry, filter, and exit rules as one procedure.
Replay the Friday-only fade on historical releases with the same wait, pair filter, risk stops, hold limit, and skip rule before treating the procedure as live.
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