EUR/USD
A permanent research workspace for the world's most actively traded currency pair, organised around relative policy, growth, inflation and observable price structure.
Open EUR/USD and mark up your idea.
Start on the one-hour chart, then change the symbol or timeframe in the toolbar. Mark structure, note your invalidation and compare the chart with the prompts below.
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Three ways the session could unfold.
Add your own dated conditions before moving the chart forward. If none of them appears, waiting is part of the plan.
Euro leadership is confirmed
The relative policy or growth impulse turns in favour of the euro and price accepts above a pre-declared higher-timeframe boundary.
Evidence required: A dated macro catalyst or measurable change in the relative-rate narrative; A closed-bar structure break followed by acceptance or a tested retest rule; No unresolved high-impact event inside the planned holding window.
Invalidation: The relative evidence reverses or price closes back through the level that defined acceptance. A brief intrabar excursion is not enough unless the rule said it was.
Relative evidence stays balanced
ECB and Fed expectations move together, surprises are mixed and price remains inside an established range. The correct output may be observation rather than exposure.
Evidence required: No persistent change in the relative policy path; Repeated failure to hold outside the declared range; Risk and reward compressed by nearby opposing structure.
Invalidation: A material relative catalyst and confirmed range acceptance replace the balanced state. The scenario is retired, not silently relabelled.
Dollar leadership is confirmed
The US relative-rate or growth impulse strengthens, euro-area risk increases, and price accepts below a pre-declared structural boundary.
Evidence required: Evidence that the change is relative, not merely a weak euro or strong dollar headline; A repeatable lower-acceptance or failed-retest condition; Room to the next support after costs and the planned invalidation.
Invalidation: Price regains and holds the broken boundary or the supporting relative-rate thesis materially weakens.
First, learn what this market represents.
EUR/USD rises when one euro buys more US dollars. A bullish chart view is therefore long euro and short dollar; a bearish view is the reverse.
The pair is a relative price. Strong euro-area data can fail to lift EUR/USD when US expectations improve by more, while weak US data can have little effect when the surprise was already priced.
Liquidity is commonly deepest during the London session and the London-New York overlap, but spreads and slippage can still widen around releases, fixes, holidays and rollover.
Build a short, useful evidence stack.
Give each observation a source, time and purpose. Two notes based on the same price move are still one piece of evidence, so look for inputs that answer different questions.
Compare the expected ECB and Federal Reserve paths rather than one policy rate in isolation. Record the observation date and whether the evidence comes from decisions, projections, market pricing or commentary.
Track surprises in euro-area and US inflation, wages, activity and labour data. Separate the published level from the change versus consensus and from revisions.
Check rate differentials, broad dollar behaviour and whether European risk assets confirm or contradict the FX move. Correlation is context, not an entry trigger.
Mark the higher-timeframe range, prior swing points, session extremes and the level that would falsify the structure label. Do this before opening a lower timeframe.
Check the calendar before forming the plan.
Note the release time and timezone before you start. Check again before acting because revisions, speeches and press conferences may have their own schedules.
- ECB and Federal Reserve decisions, projections, minutes and press conferences
- Euro-area and US inflation, wage, employment and activity releases
- Changes in expected real-rate and nominal-rate differentials
- European political or fiscal risk that changes the risk premium
- Month-end flows, major option expiries and thin holiday liquidity
Know when to wait and when the idea has failed.
Invalidation tells you the idea no longer holds. Position size tells you what being wrong may cost. Write both before the trade rather than moving one to rescue the other.
- The pair is centred inside the working range and neither side offers a rule-defined invalidation.
- ECB or Fed risk falls inside the holding window and the strategy has not been tested through that event type.
- The chart feed, release time or timezone cannot be verified.
- Several USD positions would turn a small EUR/USD idea into excessive portfolio-level dollar exposure.
Save the study before the next candle changes your mind.
This is an evergreen research framework, not a current market call. It is reviewed when market mechanics, benchmark construction or the source set changes, and at least quarterly while the hub is active. Any dated study must state its data cutoff, chart source and timezone separately.
Come back and score the process.
There are no archived calls here yet. When you save a study, move it through draft, frozen, observed and reviewed. Add a correction as a new note so you can still see the original reasoning.
- Save the untouched pre-event chart, data cutoff and all three scenarios.
- Record which condition appeared first and whether it was executable after spread and slippage.
- Score thesis quality separately from trade outcome and execution quality.
- Keep failed and no-trade studies searchable; do not archive only attractive examples.
Plan for the risks that are easy to miss.
- Gap and slippage risk around central-bank decisions and major releases
- Correlated exposure through other USD or EUR positions
- Headline reversals and revised economic data
- Financing and rollover effects for multi-day positions
Verify the contract specification, pip or point value, minimum size, margin, financing and stop behaviour with the actual provider before using any calculator output.
Go to the original calendar or rulebook.
Use these links to check release calendars, policy documents, benchmark definitions and statistics at their source.