Creating a trading strategy for economic events

In this section, we will explore a new class of trading strategies that is different from what we've seen before. Instead of using technical indicators, we can research economic releases and use various economic releases to estimate/predict the impact on the trading instruments and trade them accordingly. Let's first take a look at what economic releases are and how instrument pricing is influenced by releases.

Economic releases

Economic indicators are a measure of economic activity for a certain country or region or asset classes. These indicators are measured, researched, and released by different entities. Some of these entities are government agencies and some are private...