Currency Strength Meter
Which major currencies are strong and which are weak, right now — measured, not guessed. Computed from the same price feed our machine trades from, with the formula published below. Reading as of Friday 21 Aug 10:34 UK, refreshed six times every trading day.
Bars show each currency’s average percentage move against the others over the chosen window. Hover a row for the pairs behind the number.
The numbers as a table
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How to read it
A strongly positive currency has been appreciating against the rest; a strongly negative one has been sold across the board. The classic use is direction: pairing the strongest against the weakest gives a trade the wind at its back — it is the same family of reading our machine uses to pick a call’s direction before the gates decide whether it may trade at all.
Two honest cautions. Strength is a rear-view measure — it says what has happened, not what happens next; chasing a stretched reading is how the “buy the top” trade gets made. And on red-flag news days the reading can invert in minutes — check today’s trading weather before acting on it.
The formula (no mystery weights)
For each of the nine pairs we trade, take the percentage change of the H1 close over the window — trading hours only, so weekends never dilute it. A currency’s score is the simple average of its signed changes across every tracked pair it appears in: positive when it is the base currency and the pair rose, negative when it fell, and mirrored for the quote side. No smoothing, no proprietary weighting, no “algorithm”.
Limits, stated plainly: this is computed from the nine pairs the machine trades, not a full 28-cross matrix — AUD, NZD, CAD and CHF are each read through a single USD cross, so treat their readings as coarser than USD, EUR, GBP or JPY. The refresh cadence is six times a trading day, not tick-by-tick: right for a morning bias, wrong for scalping.