How To Find Currency Strength In Forex!

Strength in currencies

Strength between currency pairs happens all the time and if you know how to, you can take advantage of them to make some profit. 

Interested?

Of course you are. What does strength mean? Strength simply means  that one or more currencies are behaving in a certain way. For example  the Japanese Yen is very strong it is moving and people are buying the  Yen. Now if we want to know how strong the Japanese Yen actually is then  we look at all the major Yen currency pairs.  

AUD/JPY

CAD/JPY

CHF/JPY

EUR/JPY

GBP/JPY

NZD/JPY

USD/JPY

Some people dismiss the Swiss Franc (CHF) as a minor currency but I  always put it in there for calculating the weakness of the currencies. 

As you can see with the EUR pairs the Euro is weak. Now how can we  take advantage of this weakness? We need to find a currency that is  strong.  

As you can see the Canadian Dollar (CAD) Is very strong!  WAIT! Don’t put your trade on yet! Where are are we getting in and where are we getting out?  

Entrance and Exit strategy

Let’s look at the EUR/CAD more closely. where exactly are we going to enter this trade? And where are we going to exit?  

How do we know if this trade is going to be a winner?

Well of course we don’t know 100% if it will be a winner or not. But  there are some things we can do to make sure it has a good chance of  doing well. We do not put in a market trade, we use a Sell Stop, if you  don’t know what a Sell Stop is then take a few minutes to use your  favourite search engine or go onto your trading broker’s site and find  out how to use one. 

1Hr Time Frame

This is a very simple method. The Sell Stop goes just below the green  line and your Stop Loss goes just above the red line. Again if you  don’t know how to set a Stop Loss I suggest you find out. Trading  without a Stop Loss is very dangerous to your account! 

1Day Time Frame

Remember to check a higher time frame in case of strong support or  resistance. As you can see from the chart below it has already hit  support that is why our entry is below that green line! 

The exit or Take Profit is at the orange line. My risk to reward is  about 40% my profit will be 1/1.4 which is although not ideal I prefer  1/1.5 to 1/3 usually, it isn’t so bad. Warning here of what I call  stretching profits, don’t try to stretch to your number as it probably  won’t get there.  The latest on this trade. it hasn’t hit the entry order.  

In the end if the trade is activated then you know you are pretty safe it is going in the right direction. If the trade however doesn't start then you cancel the order and you have lost NOTHING!

Thanks for reading 

Paul Davids