In 2011, David O. Lucca and Emanuel Moench published their study showing that returns on U.S. equities tend to be higher in anticipation of scheduled meetings of the Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC). The research was called the Pre-FOMC Announcement Drift. Let's see if there is a spike in gold and silver prices in the 24 hours before the FOMC meeting.
Sentiment analysis as a method of quantitative estimation of opinions and emotions in texts is widely used not only in various marketing studies, but also in trading.
Today we will consider news trading as a field for short-term speculation and examine whether fixing quick profits after the release of the news really causes a reverse movement.
We will apply the “macroeconomic background” filter to "Bollinger Bands Reversals" signal and see if the rate of return increases with its application.
In this article, we will talk about the economic calendar and determine what is better to rely on when making a decision to open deals: forecasts or previous values of indicators.
Today we will study the reaction of the foreign exchange market to the publication of revised values of economic indicators. And let's see if it's worth relying on them when making a decision to enter the market.