Hello! I am analyzing economic events through the skills I learned in the Bloomberg Market Certificate. It is very basic but I thought it might be good to revive the news and current events section of the forum.

2 major events on my watchlist are Retail sales on Wednesday and New Housing Starts on Thursday. I am more interested in Thursday because it has more impact on GDP. GDP impacts indexes like the S&P. I trade SPY options so this has significant impact on my trade decisions.

Re-cap of October: Lowest unemployment numbers and Poor manufacturing numbers are creating a divergence in the market. This is one of the factors creating a range formation on the S&P daily chart. I don't follow Trump tweets btw.

How do you trade the news? You wait for the release and compare the "surprise" with analyst expectations.

Here is a link to what I am seeing https://finviz.com/calendar.ashx

What is everybody's thoughts?

Another good earnings today was overshadowed by poor retail sales. Negative surprise!