FX Breakout Monitor: August 31, 2020

Signal: NZDUSD closes at new 19-day high

Example auto-trade setup: Buy near Friday breakout close at 0.6743, stop at 0.6673, target: hold for new high in days 7-9 (Sep 8-10)

Chart: NZDUSD
The setup here is similar to many USD pairs, though AUDUSD was a bit ahead of NZDUSD in breaking higher – interesting to note here, as with GBPUSD; that NZDUSD is looking at levels that have proven the highs for quite some time – stretching well back into 2019 in the case of NZDUSD.

Breakouts on the radar

As can be seen in the table below, we have a few possible new breakouts on the radar today – chief among them EURUSD, which as of this writing was trading above its 19-day high closing level and USDCHF which has a similar setup (new low close). Elsewhere, NOK features prominently with a major new cycle low if the break lower holds, and similarly NOKSEK if the price level holds above the prior high. For trading setups, traders can taking the closing price today if it is above/below the price break and employ a stop of, for example as we use in our automatic setups, 1.05 ATR, with the latest ATR shown for each currency pair.

Chart: EURUSD
While many USD pairs have broken higher, the main one – the big EURUSD – has so far failed to stick a new high close since a failed breakout on August 18. A close above 1.1931 today would be the highest for the cycle.

Chart: EURNOK
Note that EURNOK has powered to a new 19-day low close and indeed, is mulling the lowest closing level since before the oil price crash that unfolded during the COVID-19 panic phase and crashed NOK with it.The 2019 high was just above 10.31 and the round 10.00 level was a constant resistance point before that stretching back to late 2018.

Table: FX Breakout Monitor

Table: Most recent new breakout signals for each currency pair.