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 August 2018
For the month of August, we forecasted that the best trades will be short EUR/USD and short GBP/USD. The performance so far is as follows:
Currency Pair | Forecast Direction | Interest Rate Differential | Performance to Date |
EUR/USD | Short ↓ | 2.00% (2.00% - 0.00%) | +1.34% |
GBP/USD | Short ↓ | 0.75% (0.75% - 0.00%) | +1.78% |
Weekly Forecast 12th August 2018
Last week, we made no forecasts, as there were no strong counter-trend movements.
This week, we again make no forecast, as there were again no strong counter-trend movements.
This week has been dominated by relative strength in the Japanese Yen, Swiss Franc, and U.S. Dollar, and relative weakness in the New Zealand Dollar and other commodity currency. Sentiment is clearly “risk on” with a flow to safe-haven assets.
You can trade our forecasts in a real or demo Forex brokerage account.
Previous Monthly Forecasts
You can view the results of our previous monthly forecasts here.
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:
Currency Pair | Key Support / Resistance Levels |
AUD/USD | Support: 0.7260, 0.7230, 0.7207, 0.7163 Resistance: 0.7322, 0.7348, 0.7382, 0.7479 |
EUR/USD | Support: 1.1372, 1.1328, 1.1308, 1.1296 Resistance: 1.1447, 1.1496, 1.1580, 1.1630 |
GBP/USD | Support: 1.2616, 1.2552, 1.2429, 1.2388 Resistance: 1.2818, 1.2842, 1.2920, 1.2975 |
USD/JPY | Support: 110.55, 110.00, 109.07, 108.05 Resistance: 111.19, 111.86, 112.15, 112.57 |
AUD/JPY | Support: 80.42, 80.00, 79.35, 78.89 Resistance: 82.54, 82.81, 83.45, 84.54 |
EUR/JPY | Support: 125.60, 124.71, 123.75, 120.74 Resistance: 126.82, 128.49, 128.98, 130.05 |
USD/CAD | Support: 1.3120, 1.3053, 1.2996, 1.2826 Resistance: 1.3281, 1.3327, 1.3383, 1.3464 |
USD/CHF | Support: 0.9922, 0.9904, 0.9885, 0.9827 Resistance: 0.9978, 1.0010, 1.0111, 1.0150 |
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.