Tuesday, April 10, 2007
Trading with EUR, GBP
Trading with EUR, GBP - The popular currency pairs
Ever thought which are the most popular currency pairs to trade? Yes, EUR/USD is the popular of all and generally has tightest of spreads which is 2-3 pips depending on the broker.
The next is GBP/USD - the highly volatile and has spread of 4-5 pips.
What follows is USD/CHF and USD/JPY. Generally have 4-5 pips spread.
Remember the high the volatile the currency pairr is, the more it will honour technical analysis and corresponding indicators such as EMA, fibonacci levels, MACD, RSI etc. etc.
The exception being USD/CAD and USD/JPY which I have noticed is highly fundamental announcements and news impacted. Such as Oil price drives USD/CAD very heavily.
Also, the high the volatility, the more popular the pair is and the more ebooks are written for that currency pair. For e.g. ones written by Avi Frister or by Marc Mcrae. Not only that, people develop separate strategy for day trading that forex pair and some develop swing trading strategies as well.
I have not heard any one developing startegy for EUR/GBP since it is not that volatile.
Thats all in this session.Visit again to learn more on the exciting market of currency trading.
Ever thought which are the most popular currency pairs to trade? Yes, EUR/USD is the popular of all and generally has tightest of spreads which is 2-3 pips depending on the broker.
The next is GBP/USD - the highly volatile and has spread of 4-5 pips.
What follows is USD/CHF and USD/JPY. Generally have 4-5 pips spread.
Remember the high the volatile the currency pairr is, the more it will honour technical analysis and corresponding indicators such as EMA, fibonacci levels, MACD, RSI etc. etc.
The exception being USD/CAD and USD/JPY which I have noticed is highly fundamental announcements and news impacted. Such as Oil price drives USD/CAD very heavily.
Also, the high the volatility, the more popular the pair is and the more ebooks are written for that currency pair. For e.g. ones written by Avi Frister or by Marc Mcrae. Not only that, people develop separate strategy for day trading that forex pair and some develop swing trading strategies as well.
I have not heard any one developing startegy for EUR/GBP since it is not that volatile.
Thats all in this session.Visit again to learn more on the exciting market of currency trading.
Labels: EMA, fibonacci levels, forex day trading, forex pips, forex technical indicators, fundamental announcement, fundamental news, spread, technical analysis, volatility
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EUR/GBP isn't traded because it is more of a relative strength indicator. If EUR/GBP goes up, cable tends to go down, while EUR/USD will go up. The amazing part of this is that it only takes like maybe 5 pips to make GBP/USD go up 20.
Agree with you about the USD/JPY. I've always found that this pair conforms the least to my tried and tested indicators out of the 3 pairs that I trade - EUR/USD, GBP/USD and USD/JPY.
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