This week we’ll begin with our monthly and weekly forecasts of the currency pairs worth watching. The first part of our forecast is based upon our research of the past 16 years of Forex prices, which show that the following methodologies have all produced profitable results:
· Trading the two currencies that are trending the most strongly over the past 3 months.
· Assuming that trends are usually ready to reverse after 12 months.
· Trading against very strong counter-trend movements by currency pairs made during the previous week.
· Buying currencies with high interest rates and selling currencies with low interest rates.
Let’s take a look at the relevant data of currency price changes and interest rates to date, which we compiled using a trade-weighted index of the major global currencies:
Monthly Forecast February 2018
For the month of January, we forecasted that the best trades would be long EUR/USD and long GBP/USD. The final performance was as follows:
For the month of February, we maintain long EUR/USD and GBP/USD. The performance to date is as follows:
Weekly Forecast 4th February 2018
Last week, we made no forecast.
This week, we again make no forecast, as there were no strong counter-trend movements last week.
This week has been dominated by relative strength in the Euro, and relative weakness in the Australian Dollar.
Volatility was the same as it was last week, with more than 40% of the major or minor currency pairs changing in value by more than 1%. Volatility is likely to be at a similar level over this coming week. You can trade our forecasts in a real or demo Forex brokerage account.
Key Support/Resistance Levels for Popular Pairs
We teach that trades should be entered and exited at or very close to key support and resistance levels. There are certain key support and resistance levels that should be watched on the more popular currency pairs this week, which might result in either reversals or breakouts:
Let’s see how trading one of these key pairs last week off key support and resistance levels could have worked out:
AUD/JPY
We had expected the level at 88.43 might act as resistance, as it had acted previously as both support and resistance. Note how these “flipping” levels can work well. The H1 chart below shows the how the price hit this level during the New York session last Wednesday. A possible entry was signaled by the large bearish engulfing candle which formed immediately after the price was hit, marked by the down arrow within the chart below. This long trade has so far given a good maximum reward to risk ratio of almost 3 to 1, if the stop had been placed just above the swing high at the entry candlestick.
You can trade our forecasts in a real or demo Forex brokerage account to test the strategies and strengthen your self-confidence before investing real funds.