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Looking at Trends in Payrolls…Trade Smart, Trade Small

By: Dan Norcini

 -- Published: Sunday, 5 April 2015 | Print  | Disqus 

I forgot exactly where and when I read it, but I recall seeing that one of the things that the Fed looks at when considering the employment situation, is a rolling 12 month average of the number of jobs created or lost. This gives them more of a smoothed indicator and tends to filter out the effects from what can often be notoriously volatile month to month readings. We traders tend to do this oftentimes with our various technical indicators in an attempt to filter out “noise”.

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I put together this chart for you using data supplied from the BLS website. Essentially what I did was to take each month’s payrolls number, subtract it from the previous month’s to get the number of jobs lost or created that month compared to the previous month. I then took a 12 month average of those monthly job increases or losses. Next I took a 12 month look back period to create a sort of rolling 12 month loss or creation average.

The following chart is what it produced.

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It is pretty helpful in determining some trends. Notice how the average monthly losses really escalated during the late 2008- 2009 time frame. It wasn’t until September 2010, that we finally saw the 12 month rolling average actually finally move into positive territory.

jobs

Since that time, the general or overall trend has been higher but we have had our fits and starts. I am noticing that in late 2012/early 2013 and again in late 2013/early 2014 we did see a dip lower in the overall trend higher. The rolling 12 month average then began to turn higher once again as we moved further into the spring and summer months. Perhaps there is something to be said for the winter effect on overall job creation?

If that is the case, and I am not making any predictions here but rather just noting a pattern, subsequent payrolls reports should soon show some improvement IF the economy remains on track to slowly improve as this year progresses.

That means we now have two monthly payrolls reports before the Fed meeting in June at which some were thinking that they might hike. The April and May numbers will therefore give us some fresh perspective. As it now stand, the Fed funds futures markets has moved the first rate hike back to December of this year.

AS I said in a previous post, each piece of economic data is going to be scrutinized as we get it which each one having the ability to push interest rates and the currency markets one way or the other. The Fed has said that they are going to be data dependent when looking at when to move on the interest rate front. That is also true of we traders who are going to be increasingly at the mercy of the vagaries of each piece of economic data if we are trading certain markets which are so heavily dependent on that data.

Just be careful… this is not a time to be reckless. Trade smart- trade small until you see a trend in one direction or the other.

http://traderdan.com/

 


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