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Weekly Trades: AUD/USD and EUR/AUD

Brian Twomey Brian's Investment

This week's Currency market story is the same old tired saga as in past weeks. USD Vs Non USD dominates as preferred trades due to wide ranges and cross pair range compression remains.

Same story for JPY cross pairs as AUD/JPY and EUR/JPY lead the way for best ranges and trades and to replace GBP/JPY as the normal market leader to JPY. CAD/JPY as usual isn't worth a click.

AUD/CHF and NZD/CHF are overbought and finally in agreement to AUD/USD and NZD/USD. Both AUD/USD and NZD/USD will see good moves this week as a result of cross pair compliance.

EUR/CHF and GBP/CHF however are oversold as EUR/USD and GBP/USD are overbought. What assists EUR/USD and GBP/USD downside is ranges for EUR/CHF and GBP/CHF are compressed which means not much higher will EUR/CHF and GBP/CHF travel. Required is EUR/CHF and GBP/CHF to drop in order for EUR/USD and GBP/USD to trade lower and relieve overbought conditions.

GBP/CAD for months and weeks remains a dead issue currency pair. GBP/CAD is oversold.

A positive aspect to this week's trades are many of the 18 currency pairs traded every week are easy trades and will perform well.

Note to last week's trades:

GBP/AUD achieved +181 pips in 2 trades.

EUR/JPY hit perfctly as written 123.06 then down to target for +111 pips.

USD/PLN achieved +900 ish pips

USD/HUF achieved +800 ish pips

USD/BRL achieved =2800 ish Pips

Total 4,792 pips

Easy trades this week is PLN, HUF and BRL higher as USD across the board in EM and our G28 USD pairs are deeply oversold.

As usual, all posted trades achieve targets, make good money and no trades went off course to fix a repair trade. Trades and consistency is unmatched week after week. Its all about the intended price path.

This week we'll trade EUR/AUD and AUD/USD

AUD/USD

Short anywhere or 0.7271 and 0.7284 to target 0.7122.

Short below 0.7077 to target 0.6988

Long 0.6988 to target 0.7032

Long 0.7122 to target 0.7165

EUR/AUD

Long Anywhere or 1.6336 and 1.6325 to target 1.6486

Long above 1.6499 to target 1.6580

Short 1.6580 to target 1.6522

Short 1.6486 to target 1.6417

Author

Brian Twomey

Brian's Investment

Brian Twomey is an independent trader and a prolific writer on trading, having authored over sixty articles in Technical Analysis of Stocks & Commodities and Investopedia.

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