Trade Ideas  ·  Trade idea · Oct 19, 2026

Trade Syndication · Volatility spikes · Monday, Oct 19

When markets woke up on Monday

1 market traded far past a normal hour. USD/CAD led at 4.7×.

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 Monday, Oct 19, with any scheduled news around them and what the market did in the two hours after. Times are New York time.

  • ⚡ USD/CAD 0.30% in an hour (4.7× normal)

1. USD/CAD: a one-hour burst 4.7× its normal hour, around Canada CPI m/m

USD/CAD: a one-hour burst 4.7× its normal hour, around Canada CPI m/m
USD/CAD on Monday, Oct 19, 15-minute candles with the burst hour shaded; below, every hour’s range through the day against its normal hour.
One hour0.30% (07:45 to 08:45 ET)
A normal hour0.06% (median of 20 sessions)
This hour4.7× (a normal hour)

Between 07:45 and 08:45 ET on Monday, USD/CAD traded a 0.30% range, 4.7× a normal hour for it (about 0.06%).

It came with Canada CPI m/m at 08:30 ET.

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

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