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

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#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.

But you know, you’re really narrowing down and focusing on not only the candle pattern but the strength and weakness at the time.

We analyse and post the Daily Strength & Weaknesses.

Now, every single day we analyze daily strength and weakness and we post it on our membership site for our clients to follow and to understand how to do this for themselves. I also do, by the way, if you’re not a client for a very free basic version of this each day on our website, which you can get for free every single day as well.

Those are not trades, by the way that I put on our free website. Those are strength and weakness analysis. So let’s say again, let’s say we were looking at that EUR/GBP as an example, heading down on the daily chart. If you were trading the following day and you saw, let’s say a four hour buy trade on the EUR/GBP, you might want to avoid it because the EUR/GBP looks like it’s heading down with that euro weakness and pound strength that we’ve talked about.

So what you might want to do is only take high quality set ups that are sell trades on the EUR/GBP that day. Likewise, if we go back to our GBP/JPY, whether you take that or not on a daily chart, if you see let’s say the GBP/JPY heading out, pulling back on four hour charts or two hour chart, six hour charts, whatever it is you trade and they see a bullish pattern, great.

You’ve now got strength and weakness and you’ve got the candle pattern all telling you that the market is likely to move up. All it’s doing is adding one more factor in probability in your favor.

Looking at the Weekly charts at the start of each trading week.

Now, I take that one stage further. We also, at the beginning of each week, look at the weekly charts. Now we go through and analyze the weekly chart and do the exact same process, but on a higher timeframe.

Now let’s say again, this pattern, the end that we’ve talked about, let’s say that on the weekly charts, the pattern again, look very strong. We’ve already identified on the daily charts the pan gains looking strong. That again adds more weight to our daily chart. Again, scale that down to, let’s say we saw really good strong bullish pattern on the pan down for our chart.

We’ve now got the weekly, the Daily and now the shorter time frame all showing bullish tendencies, all showing strength in the GBP/JPY all at the same time. Bigger picture daily picture, shorter timeframe picture Put all that together, you owe yourself, you’ve got yourself a very high quality high probability trade there.

Learn how to analyse the strength & weaknesses for yourself.

So if you’d like to find out how you can analyze the charts like this on descending strength. Weakness is part of our coaching program, but if you’d like to find out more about that, you can jump on to my masterclass.

Book a Call and talk with us.

If you’d like to book a call with us and have a chat with us to see if we’re the right fit for each other. Now obligation call just to find out if if what we do can help you. If you’ll write for us, you can book a call as well.

Blueberry Markets as a Forex Broker.

And if you’re out there looking for a high quality forex broker, I can highly recommend Blueberry Markets that based in Australia, they can take clients from most countries around the world. They offer the MT5 trading platform where you can trade forex, metals, commodities, indices, cryptos and of course be an MT5.

You can trade multiple timeframe charts as well, such as two hour, three hour, six hour, eight hour, 12 hour, as well as the more standard time frame charts. So I’ll put a link to all of that below.

Comments, Like & Subscribe.

Any questions you have, please email me Andrew @TheForexTradingCoach.com or like and subscribe and leave a comment.

If you’re watching this video on YouTube and I’ll see you this time next week. This is Andrew Mitchem at the Forex Trading Coach. Bye for now.

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

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