Should You Trade Correlated Forex Pairs?

Podcast:

#371: Should You Trade Correlated Forex Pairs?

In this video:
00:23 – Trading correlated pairs and the TFTC Pattern Trader results update
00:36 – Confusion over trading correlated pairs
01:38 – Other correlated currencies
02:06 – Trading examples
04:27 – Trades from last week and how I traded the correlated pairs
05:52 – TFTC Pattern Trader update, +3.6% this week on autopilot

Should you trade correlated Forex pairs? Let’s talk about that and more right now.

Hey traders, Andrew Mitchem here, at the Forex Trading Coach with video and podcast number 371.

Trading correlated pairs and the TFTC Pattern Trader results update

And I want to talk all about Forex pairs and trading correlated pairs and also, I want to give you an update on the autopilot feature for the trade results this week for our fantastic software called Pattern Trader.

Confusion over trading correlated pairs

So let’s start with the question about Forex pairs and correlation. It came from a trader called Joseph and said to me, “Hey Andrew, I’ve got a question for you. I’m getting confused with knowing which pairs to trade and which are correlated. Can you help me out on a future video and podcast?” So, exactly what we’re doing. You would notice that a lot of currency pairs are quite highly correlated. For example, the Euro and the Swiss Franc are highly correlated. And what the EUR/USD does, the USD/CHF generally does the opposite because they’re both U.S. dollar related and the Euro and the Franc are related. So if the EUR/USD goes up, on your charts, generally, you will see the USD/CHF drop. You get other correlations acting like the Euro and the Pound, both are very similar markets, same time zone, et cetera. They tend to move quite similar, tend to.

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