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: 

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 February, we forecast that the best trades would be long EUR/USD and GBP/USD. The performance to date is as follows:

Weekly Forecast 11th February 2018

Last week, we made no forecast.

This week, we forecast that the CHF/JPY currency cross is likely to rise in value.

This week has been dominated by relative strength in the Japanese Yen, and relative weakness in the Australian Dollar.

Volatility was higher than it was last week, with more than 55% 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, fed by high volatility in stock markets. 

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: