Housing data: does it move your pairs?

Housing is a rate-sensitive sector, so its data reads as a report card on monetary policy — builder confidence, starts, prices. The market's reaction is often bigger than the data seems to deserve.

Housing data: does it move your pairs? — risk-reward diagram
A risk-reward ratio of 1 to 2

Do you follow it?

  • the housing releases you watch
  • how they feed your rate expectations
  • the pair reactions you've observed
Housing data: does it move your pairs? — candlestick anatomy diagram
The parts of a candlestick: wick, body, open and close

Background: the NAHB index for the latest read.

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