Last month, GBP/USD broke below its 5 year average at 1.3100s and traveled 900 pips to 1.2200s, but the vast majority of the 700 pip move occurred last month to GBP/USD 1.2400s.
USD/CAD bolted last month from 1.2400s to the current 1.2900s. 400 pips last month resulted in the vast majority of the USD/CAD move. GBP/USD outpaced USD/CAD by about 2 times.
GBP/USD at the 1.2300s sits deeply oversold from its 5 year average.
USD/CAD failed to break its 5 year average at the corresponding 1.3100s. USD/CAD's 5 year average now sits at 1.2986 vs lows at 1.2400s or 500 pips. USD/CAD previously was located from 1.2200 to 1.3100 or the same 900 pips to GBP/USD.
The target for USD/CAD above 1.2986 is located at 1.3416 or 500 pips and corresponds to the 10 year average target at 1.3544. USD/CAD's big line average breaks are found at 1.2862, 1.2812, 1.2724, and 1.2657.
USD/CAD is fairly well trapped in a 300 pips range. GBP/USD breaks higher 1.2356, 1.2456, 1.2479, 1.2788, and 1.2933. GBP/USD 1.2933 happens to be found at the 50 day average.
GBP/USD 1.2470 is located at the 5 day average and the first major break in order for GBP/USD to trade within the proper 5 to 253 day average framework.
USD/CAD's dead range is equally blamed on USD/JPY as both correlate at + 88%. USD/JPY vital points below are: 130.44, 129.70, 124.03, and 123.89.
USD/JPY 123.00s corresponds to USD/CAD lows at 1.2400s. USD/JPY 129.70 corresponds to USD/CAD 5 year average at 1.2986. USD/JPY 130.44 becomes USD/CAD's first target on a break of 1.2986.
The overall driver to USD/CAD is GBP/USD deeply oversold from the 5 day average to averages dated to 1998. USD/JPY as the next driver to USD/CAD is deeply overbought from the 5 day average to averages dated to 1998.
USD/CAD at 1.2900s is trapped in the middle of GBP/USD 1.2300s to USD/JPY 130.00s. Working against a higher USD/CAD is deeply overbought CAD/JPY and CAD/CHF. Both correlate to USD/CAD at +80 and +64% for CAD/CHF. Longer term, USD/CAD sits dead neutral from averages at the 5 day to 1998 averages.
GBP/USD's averages at 1.2400s should break easily to target 1.2600s. GBP/JPY at -99% is the only currency in GBP's universe to negatively correlate. GBP/NZD is light at +67% but the correlation explains NZD/USD wider movements to finally wake up from its months long coma.
EUR/USD
The EUR/USD's big break out higher is located at 1.0881; this number happens to correspond to the 50 day average at 1.0841. Above, 1.1026 is easily targeted.
EUR/USD sits deeply oversold from short to longer dated averages to 1998. EUR/USD sits massively oversold at the 5, 10 and 15 year averages. The EUR trade and direction is higher.
For Sunday to Monday's 24 hour trade, the upper target is located at 1.0627 and just shy of the 20 day average at 1.0664.
24 Hour Trades
24 Hour trades contain 2 longs and 2 shorts and 1 reversal per each long and short.
GBP/JPY
As the current leader of the JPY cross pairs, GBP/JPY sits fairly neutral at 160.00s from the 1.4800 to 168.00 move. Big break lower is located at 159.95.
JPY Cross Pairs
USD/JPY is back to +99% Correlations to JPY cross pairs. For the week, we're cautious on weekly trades as JPY cross pairs all resemble GBP/JPY's neutral position. Neutral means JPY cross pairs could easily fly either way. The strategy is short rallies.
20 Currency Pair Ranking Scale
The first 14 currency pair rankings are as follows: Favored trades this week: EUR/USD, EUR/CAD, AUD/USD, AUD/JPY, EUR/AUD, EUR/NZD, NZD/USD, AUD/CHF, CAD/CHF, NZD/CHF, USD/CAD, CAD/JPY, EUR/JPY, NZD/JPY.
JPY cross pairs are relegated to the bottom, and USD/CAD doesn't have a clue. CHF cross pairs are normally decent trades week to week, but lack big moves.
Best trades from the overall rankings: EUR/USD, EUR/CAD, AUD/USD, EUR/AUD, AUD/JPY, EUR/NZD, NZD/USD.
GBP
GBP/USD, GBP/AUD, GBP/NZD, GBP/CAD, GBP/CHF, GBP/JPY. Best trades: GBP/USD, GBP/AUD, GBP/CAD, GBP/NZD.
Currency Markets
Currency market prices overall are back to normal from a few fairly tough weeks. The yearly pattern is currency prices go haywire at least 2 times per year and always in the March and April period. Except for an occasional week now and then to go off kilter, currency markets function +90% for any given year.
As off kilter subsided, normal will last for the remainder of the year. Normal means wider daily movements will disappear to favor the daily to weekly balance to overall trades. Previously, daily moves stole pips from weekly trades. Rare day to see such events.