This week we will begin with our monthly and weekly forecasts of the currency pairs worth watching. The first part of our forecast is based upon our research of the past 18 years of Forex prices, which show that the following methodologies have all produced profitable results:

• Trading the two currencies that are trending the most strongly over the past 3 months.
• Assuming that trends are usually ready to reverse after 12 months.
• Trading against very strong counter-trend movements by currency pairs made during the previous week.
• Buying currencies with high interest rates and selling currencies with low interest rates.

Let us look at the relevant data of currency price changes and interest rates to date, which we compiled using a trade-weighted index of the major global currencies:

Monthly Forecast May 2021

For the month of May, we forecast that the USD/CAD currency pair would fall in value, and the CAD/JPY currency cross would rise in value. The performance so far has been positive:

Weekly Forecast May 23

Last week, we made no weekly forecast, as there were no unusually strong counter-trend price movements in the Forex market. This week, we forecast that the EUR/NOK currency cross is likely to fall in value.

The Forex market showed a slightly increased level of volatility last week, with 20% of the important currency pairs and crosses again moving by more than 1% in value. Volatility is likely to remain relatively low over the coming week.

Last week was dominated by relative strength in the Japanese yen and relative weakness in the New Zealand dollar, but the values were so small that this is not likely to be meaningful.

Key Support/Resistance Levels for Popular Pairs

We teach that trades should be entered and exited at or very close to key support and resistance levels. There are certain key support and resistance levels that can be watched on the more popular currency pairs this week.