This week we will 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 20 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 weekly counter-trend movements by currency pairs made during the previous week.
Carry Trade: Buying currencies with high interest rates and selling currencies with low interest rates.
Let us 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 October 2021
For the month of October, we forecast that the EUR/USD currency pair will fall in value. Our September forecast was not triggered as the EUR/USD did not breach the resistance level specified.
Weekly Forecast 3rd October 2021
Last week, we made no weekly forecast, as there were no unusually strong counter-trend movement last week. We again make no weekly forecast this week.
The Forex market saw a steadying level of volatility last week, with 22% of all the important currency pairs or crosses moving by more than 1% in value. Volatility is likely to remain at a similar level or to decrease over the coming week.
Last week was dominated by relative strength in the Australian and U.S. dollars, and relative weakness in the euro and New Zealand dollars.
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 can be watched on the more popular currency pairs this week.
Currency Pair | Key Support / Resistance Levels |
AUD/USD | Support: 0.7264, 0.7247, 0.7232, 0.7187 Resistance: 0.7291, 0.7375, 0.7393, 0.7410 |
EUR/USD | Support: 1.1517, 1.1467, 1.1394, 1.1371 Resistance: 1.1610, 1.1668, 1.1688, 1.1711 |
GBP/USD | Support: 1.3527, 1.3502, 1.3411, 1.3319 Resistance: 1.3577, 1.3687, 1.3746, 1.3765 |
USD/JPY | Support: 110.82, 110.37, 110.20, 110.00 Resistance: 111.06, 115.45, 116.29, 116.79 |
AUD/JPY | Support: 79.83, 79.69, 79.20, 78.83 Resistance: 81.41, 81.62, 81.95, 82.17 |
EUR/JPY | Support: 128.53, 128.28, 128.00, 127.44 Resistance: 129.06, 129.38, 129.68, 130.03 |
USD/CAD | Support: 1.2581, 1.2487, 1.2466, 1.2424 Resistance: 1.2688, 1.2747, 1.2808, 1.2847 |
USD/CHF | Support: 0.9270, 0.9204, 0.9150, 0.9118 Resistance: 0.9331, 0.9370, 0.9387, 0.9438 |
Let us see how trading reversals from one of last week’s key levels would have worked out:
EUR/JPY
We had expected the level at 130.42 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 how the price rejected this level with a bearish outside candlestick just at the start of last Wednesday’s Tokyo session (typically a great time to be trading currency pairs involving the Japanese Yen like this one) marked by the down arrow in the price chart below. This trade has been very profitable so far, achieving a maximum positive reward to risk ratio of more than 7 to 1 based upon the size of the entry candlestick.
That is all for this week. 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.