This document discusses currency pairs and pips. It notes that most currency pairs have a 4 decimal place, except for yen pairs which have 2. It provides an example of gaining 10 pips on USD/CAD and 3 pips on USD/JPY. Major currencies listed include USD, EUR, JPY, GBP, CHF, CAD, AUD, and NZD. Higher time frames such as monthly, weekly and daily are used to determine market direction, while support and resistance levels are found using weekly data for swing trades and daily data for day trades.
This document discusses currency pairs and pips. It notes that most currency pairs have a 4 decimal place, except for yen pairs which have 2. It provides an example of gaining 10 pips on USD/CAD and 3 pips on USD/JPY. Major currencies listed include USD, EUR, JPY, GBP, CHF, CAD, AUD, and NZD. Higher time frames such as monthly, weekly and daily are used to determine market direction, while support and resistance levels are found using weekly data for swing trades and daily data for day trades.
This document discusses currency pairs and pips. It notes that most currency pairs have a 4 decimal place, except for yen pairs which have 2. It provides an example of gaining 10 pips on USD/CAD and 3 pips on USD/JPY. Major currencies listed include USD, EUR, JPY, GBP, CHF, CAD, AUD, and NZD. Higher time frames such as monthly, weekly and daily are used to determine market direction, while support and resistance levels are found using weekly data for swing trades and daily data for day trades.
On all pairs 4th decimal point except yen pairs (2nd decimal point)
USD/CAD goes from 1.2886 to 1.2896 – gain of 10 pips
USD/JPY goes from 105.73 to 105.76 – gain of 3 pips
Some major currencies-
USD, EUR, JPY, GBP, CHF, CAD, AUD, NZD
**HIGHER TIME FRAME GIVES DEPICTION OF WHERE DYNAMIC S/R
THE MARKET IS HEADED (this is only used as guidance) 1 Swing high & lows [Monthly, weekly, daily, 4 hrs.] 2 Multiple rejections of an area, the more the better
3 Has acted as both S/R
SUPPORT & RESISTANCE [key levels] 4 The move away from the area was significant
5 was recently respected
**The level should be obvious [eye catching]
Weekly timeframe is used to find key level [swing trade]
Daily timeframe is used to find key level [day trade]