Planning Around News and Fundamentals

If strong economic data comes out of Australia, you might want to look at buying the AUD. Your first reaction might be to buy AUD/USD.

But what if at the same time, recent data also show the United States experiencing strong economic growth? Price action of AUD/USD may be flat.

One option that you have is to match the AUD against the currency of an economy that isn't doing so well.... Hmmmm... what could you do?

Ah! Thank the forex gods for currency crosses!

Let's say you did some analysis, checked the BabyPips.com economic calendar (shameless plug!) or Pip Diddy's daily economic roundup (another shameless plug!) and you notice that the Japanese economy isn't doing so good right now.

What do you do?

Of course, like any self-respecting bully, you jump all over this opportunity and go long AUD/JPY!

There's nothing wrong with being a bully, at least not here at the School of Pipsology.

It's your job as a trader to take advantage of certain opportunities so that you can put some silver dollars into your piggy bank.

Because of currency crosses, you now have the opportunity to match the currency of the best performing economy against that of the weakest economy without having to deal with the U.S. dollar.

1. What is a Currency Cross Pair?
2. Crosses Present More Trading Opportunities
3. Cleaner Trends and Ranges
4. Taking Advantage of Interest Rate Differential
5. Obscure Crosses
6. Planning Around News and Fundamentals
7. Creating Synthetic Pairs
8. Euro and Yen Crosses
9. How to Use Crosses to Trade the Majors
10. How Cross Currency Pairs Affect Dollar Pairs
11. Summary: Currency Crosses

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