Trade Ideas  ·  Trade idea · Oct 28, 2026

Trade Syndication · Volatility spikes · Wednesday, Oct 28

Wednesday’s spikes list: 1 market past normal

From EUR/USD (4.9× a normal hour) down.

For every market we cover we find its busiest hour of the day and set it against its normal hour: the median one-hour range of its last 20 sessions. A spike is an hour of three times normal or more. These are the biggest on Wednesday, Oct 28, with any scheduled news around them and what the market did in the two hours after. Times are New York time.

  • ⚡ EUR/USD 0.42% in an hour (4.9× normal)

1. EUR/USD: a one-hour burst 4.9× its normal hour, around Federal Funds Rate

EUR/USD: a one-hour burst 4.9× its normal hour, around Federal Funds Rate
EUR/USD on Wednesday, Oct 28, 15-minute candles with the burst hour shaded; below, every hour’s range through the day against its normal hour.
One hour0.42% (14:00 to 15:00 ET)
A normal hour0.09% (median of 20 sessions)
This hour4.9× (a normal hour)

Between 14:00 and 15:00 ET on Wednesday, EUR/USD traded a 0.42% range, 4.9× a normal hour for it (about 0.09%).

It came with Federal Funds Rate at 14:00 ET.

It moved +0.16% in that hour, then held there over the next two hours.

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