🧩 Topics Covered:

• What are Average Hourly Earnings and why traders track them
  
  

• How AHE influences inflation expectations and rate hikes
  
  

• Interpreting JOLTS: What job openings say about the economy
  
  

• Relationship between labor market demand and monetary tightening
  
  

• Volatility behavior before and after wage and JOLTS releases
  
  

• Backtesting past JOLTS & AHE reactions using Excel and price data

🎯 What You Will Learn:

✔ How to interpret wage growth as an early inflation signal

✔ The role of AHE and JOLTS in shaping Fed policy and market sentiment

✔ How to anticipate market volatility and breakout behavior

✔ How to use historical JOLTS and AHE data for strategy testing in Excel

✔ Risk-adjusted trade planning around labor market-related volatility

✔ Assignment Briefing: Use wage and job opening data to analyze past market reactions and prepare a volatility-based trading strategy

🎯 Why it Matters:

✥ Wage growth and job openings are often overlooked by retail traders—but they’re among the first data points the Fed watches to gauge inflation pressure and economic resilience. Sharp movements in equity, currency, and bond markets often follow these releases.

✥ This session empowers you to capitalize on these macroeconomic triggers with clarity, precision, and tested methods

Day 9 | Wage Data & Labor Demand Trading Strategies