#571: Why Strength and Weakness Analysis is a Game-Changer as a Forex Trader

Why Strength and Weakness Analysis is a Game-Changer as a Forex Trader Podcast: Find out more about Blueberry Markets – Click Here Find out more about my Online Video Forex Course Book a Call with Andrew or one of his team now Click Here to Watch Prop Firm Masterclass #571: Why Strength and Weakness Analysis is a Game-Changer as a Forex Trader In this video: 00:30– Analysing Currency Strength & Weakness. 00:54 – A real trading example using the Japanese Yen. 03:00 – Refining the pairs you trade further. 03:50 – We analyse and post the Daily Strength & Weaknesses. 05:16 – Looking at the Weekly charts at the start of each trading week. 06:10 – Learn how to analyse the strength & weaknesses for yourself. 06:25 - Book a Call and talk with us. 06:40 – Blueberry Markets as a Forex Broker. 07:10 – Comments, Like & Subscribe. I'm going to talk about the importance of trading with strength and weakness in your favor. It's going to give you a massively improved trading performance. Let's talk about that and more right now. Hi there, Traders! Andrew Mitchem here at The Forex Trading Coach with video and podcast number 571. Analysing Currency Strength & Weakness. Today is all about analyzing currency, strength and weakness. Why we do it, how we do it, and how it can massively help increase your overall trading performance. So you think about it in terms of basics. Well, if you're trading something that strong against something as weak. Logic would suggest, it has to add more probability to the trade. A real trading example using the Japanese Yen. Here's a classic example. Let's say the Japanese yen was very weak across the board. And you're looking at a chart, let's say it's the daily chart and you're looking at the JPY it's going up. You're looking at EUR/JPY, it's going up. The USD/JPY, the CHF/JPY, the AUD/JPY and NZD/JPY, USD/JPY, SGD/JPY, HKD/JPY, whatever it is that you have on your charts, everything against the yen is going up. So therefore there's massive yen weakness at this point in time. Now you're probably unlikely to go and take all of those trades even if they were suitable candle patterns, even if they had some round numbers to protect, stop losses and they had room to hit that profit target. So all the things that we look for, you're unlikely to go and say take ¥8, ¥9, ¥10 related pairs. So what you're prepared to do is analyze strength and weakness. Now, we clearly know that right now in our example, the yen is the weakest currency. But what happens if, say, the Australian dollar, the New Zealand dollar and the Canadian dollar were all fairly weak against everything else apart from the yen? So those are the commodity currencies and they tend to move together. So let's say you're looking at the AUD/USD, it was heading down, the AUD/GBP was open, Aussie is heading up. So there's Aussie weakness. You're looking at NZD/USD, it's heading down against the franc is heading down. There's a lot of weakness overall in the New Zealand, the Aussie and the Canadian. So that is telling us that maybe with our strength and weakness analysis that maybe that the AUD/JPY, the NZD/JPY and the CAD/JPY are probably not going to be your high probability trades on those daily charts that we talked about. Refining the pairs you trade further.   You could also go as far as saying, well, let's have a look at, let's say the EUR/JPY and the GBP/JPY. Also looking good. You could go as far as say, let's have a look at the EUR/GBP and let's say the EUR/GBP was heading down massively big red bearish candle on the EUR/GBP. That again tells us that the euro's got weakness and the pound’s, got strength. So now when we go to the GBP/JPY, we're now trading a very strong currency with a very weak one. And therefore you may not want to take the EUR/JPY as well. So you might only be taking, let's say the GBP/JPYH, the USD/JPY, you might see the SGD/JPY, all the HKD/JPY yen or the CHF/JPY also good.