Trading Support and Resistance –GBP/USD, EUR/JPY

This week I will begin with my monthly and weekly Forex forecast of the currency pairs worth watching. The first part of my forecast is based upon my research of the past 20 years of Forex prices, which show that the following methodologies have all produced profitable results:

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:

For the month of September, I forecasted that the USD/JPY currency pair would gain in value.

The result so far is as follows:

I make no forecast this week, as there were no unusually strong counter-trend price movements last week.

Directional volatility in the Forex market was again very low last week with only two important currency pairs fluctuating over the week by more than 1%. Volatility is likely to be higher over te coming week, as it is unusual for it to remain so low as the month of September goes on.

Last week was dominated by relative strength in the US Dollar, and relative weakness in the Japanese Yen. This is a long-term trend.

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I 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 monitored on the more popular currency pairs this week.

Let us see how trading two of these key pairs last week off key support and resistance levels could have worked out:

I had expected the level at $1.2643 might act as resistance in the GBP/USD currency pair last week, as it had acted previously as both support and resistance. Note how these “role reversal” levels can work well. The H1 price chart below shows how the price rejected this level during last Monday’s London session (which can be a great time to enter trades in major currency pairs like this one) with an engulfing candlestick, marked by the down arrow in the price chart below signaling the timing of this bearish rejection. This trade was very profitable, giving a maximum reward to risk ratio of more than 8 to 1 based upon the size of the entry candlestick structure.

EUR/JPY

I had expected the level at ¥157.18 might act as support in the EUR/JPY currency cross last week, as it had acted previously as both support and resistance. Note how these “role reversal” levels can work well. The H1 price chart below shows how the price rejected this level right at the start of last Friday’s Tokyo session (which can be a great time to enter trades in currency pairs or crosses involving the Japanese Yen, like this one) with a large engulfing candlestick, marked by the up arrow in the price chart below signaling the timing of this bullish rejection. This trade has been somewhat profitable, giving a maximum reward to risk ratio of almost to 1 based upon the size of the entry candlestick structure.

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