What's your strategy for EUR/USD specifically?

The most-traded pair deserves its own thread: tight spreads, deep liquidity, and reactions to every US and euro-area release. The strategies people run on EUR/USD reveal how they read the two biggest economies at once.

What's your strategy for EUR/USD specifically? — central bank rate path diagram
A central bank's policy rate path across recent meetings

Describe yours:

  • the time frame and session you trade it in
  • the setups that work best on this pair for you
  • how you handle Fed and ECB weeks
What's your strategy for EUR/USD specifically? — bid-ask spread diagram
The bid-ask spread on a currency pair

The major pairs guide sets the context.

Background: Major, minor and exotic currency pairs explained

How to read a currency quote, which pairs count as majors, crosses and exotics, and why spreads and risks differ so much between them.

What are the seven major currency pairs?

EUR/USD, USD/JPY, GBP/USD, AUD/USD, USD/CAD, USD/CHF and NZD/USD.

What is a cross currency pair?

A pair of major currencies that doesn't include the US dollar, such as EUR/GBP or GBP/JPY.

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