Currency Strength Weekly Performance, 28 October to 6 November 2026: 18 Closed Picks, +8.21R, And Every Stop Left In
This currency strength weekly performance review covers every pick we published in Currency Strength Today from 28 October to 6 November 2026, our first eight trading days. 18 picks have closed, for a total of +8.21R, and four are still running. The full targets, the trailing stops and the stops that cost exactly what they were sized for are all here. Here is the picture at a glance, then the story behind it.
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Every trader on social media has a highlight reel.
The perfect entry. The candle that ran straight to target. The screenshot with the big green number. You never see the trade that stopped out the next day, because it never makes the reel.
A highlight reel is fun to watch. It is also useless for judging anything, because it only shows you the goals.
To judge a team, you watch the whole match. The goals, the misses, the saves and the own goal in the 80th minute.
This post is the whole match. Every pick we published, measured the same way, with nothing cut out. By the end of section 6, you will also see the results we chose not to count, and why leaving them out makes this record worth more, not less.
1. The Scoreboard
| Picks closed and counted | 18 |
| Total result | +8.21R |
| Finished in front / behind the entry | 11 / 7 |
| Average pick that finished in front | +1.16R |
| Average pick that finished behind | −0.64R |
| Still running | 4 |
R is the result in multiples of the original risk. A pick that reaches its stop costs 1R. A pick that reaches all three targets earns 1.70R under our partial exit model: half closed at Target 1, 30 percent at Target 2 and 20 percent at Target 3.
Counted means the pick was published before it reached Target 1. If a ticket had already reached Target 1 when we wrote about it, it is listed in the record but left out of every total.
The number that matters most is not the total. It is the gap between the last two lines. The average pick that finished in front earned almost twice what the average pick behind cost.
2. Currency Strength Weekly Performance By Category
| Category | Closed | In front / behind | Total |
|---|---|---|---|
| Pick of the Day | 6 | 3 / 3 | +1.41R |
| Other forex picks | 6 | 3 / 3 | +1.32R |
| Gold and silver checks | 6 | 5 / 1 | +5.48R |
Here is the honest read. Our forex picks finished three in front and three behind in each group, and still came out ahead, at +2.73R across 12 picks. That is what small losses and full targets do.
But the biggest contribution came from the gold and silver tickets we checked alongside the board. Gold and silver spent the end of October in a clean downtrend, with the 4 hour and the daily agreeing, and the sells walked down through their targets. Then, on 4 November, the panel stood aside when metals rallied, and the trailing stops on our open sells had already closed them in front of their entries.
One good fortnight in metals is not a pattern. We will keep showing the categories separately, so you can see where the results really come from.
3. The Picks That Reached All Three Targets
Four counted picks went all the way:
- Gold H1 SELL, 30 October: all three targets reached the same day, +1.70R.
- Silver M30 SELL, 30 October: all three targets reached, +1.70R.
- NZDCHF H1 SELL, 2 November (Pick of the Day): all three targets reached overnight, 42.9 pips from entry to Target 3, +1.70R. Read the NZD CHF forecast from that day.
- GBPJPY M15 BUY, 4 November: 70 pips on a 23.3 pip stop, +1.70R. This one is read from the chart and not confirmed by the panel status, so it is marked approximate in the record.
4. What The Trailing Stop Did
Twelve counted picks closed at their trailing stop. This is where the record was really built.
It protected picks that had already moved in front:
| Pick | Targets reached | Result |
|---|---|---|
| GBPNZD H1 BUY, 29 Oct | 2 | +1.30R |
| Silver H4 SELL, 30 Oct | 2 | +1.29R |
| CADCHF H1 BUY, 28 Oct (Pick of the Day) | 1 | +0.83R |
| Gold H4 SELL, 30 Oct | 1 | +0.78R |
| GBPCAD H1 SELL, 28 Oct | 1 | +0.76R |
| Silver H1 SELL, 3 Nov | 1 | +0.58R |
| CHFJPY M30 BUY, 3 Nov (Pick of the Day) | 1 | +0.38R |
And it shrank the cost of picks that turned against us:
| Pick | At the original stop | At the trailing stop |
|---|---|---|
| USDCAD H1 SELL, 30 Oct (Pick of the Day) | −1.00R | −0.21R |
| EURCHF H1 SELL, 5 Nov (Pick of the Day) | −1.00R | −0.29R |
| NZDCAD M15 SELL, 4 Nov | −1.00R | −0.47R |
| Gold H1 SELL, 3 Nov | −1.00R | −0.57R |
Those four picks would have cost 4R at their original stops. The trailing stop held them to about 1.5R. That is roughly 2.5R kept, from four picks that went wrong.
This is the part of trading no highlight reel shows. Nobody posts a screenshot of a loss that cost a quarter of the plan. But over a fortnight, it made as much difference as the full target picks did.
5. The Stops, Told Plainly
Three counted picks closed at, or almost at, their full planned stop:
- EURCAD M30 SELL, 28 October: stopped by a spike, −1.00R. A fresh sell printed straight after and reached Target 1.
- EURCHF H1 SELL, 4 November (Pick of the Day): a bounce reached the planned stop, −1.00R. EURCHF then turned down again, and the next two EURCHF picks were sized from a fresh ticket.
- AUDCAD H1 SELL, 5 November: closed at its trailing stop 18.3 pips behind the entry, −0.97R. Then AUDCAD fell through all three target levels. Right direction, early timing.
None of these is a disaster, and that is the point. Each one cost what it was sized to cost, and not a cent more. A stop that costs exactly the plan is not a failure of the method. It is the method working.
6. The Results We Did Not Count
Some of the best looking results of the fortnight are not in the totals above:
- CHFJPY H1 BUY, 3 November: all three targets reached. Not counted, because Targets 1 and 2 had been reached before we published.
- EURCHF H4 SELL: 89.5 pips through all three targets. Not counted, for the same reason.
- EURCHF M30 SELLs on 4 and 6 November: both reached all three targets. Not counted.
Add them in and the total would look much better. It would also be dishonest. We did not publish those tickets in time for a reader to act on them, so they do not belong in the score.
That is the rule of the whole match: you only count the goals scored after the whistle.
7. Still Running
Four counted picks are still open and will be scored when they close:
- GBPUSD H4 BUY, 3 November: Target 1 reached, trailing stop in front of the entry when last checked.
- NZDCAD H4 SELL, 3 November: trailing stop in front of the entry when last checked.
- USDCAD H4 SELL, 30 October: the pair moved into dips and rallies on 3 November. Its final result is still being checked.
- EURCHF H1 SELL, 6 November (Pick of the Day): running from 0.91475, with every EURCHF timeframe reading DOWN. Read today’s Currency Strength Today for the full board.
8. Three Lessons From Our First Eight Trading Days
Small losses, full targets. The average pick in front earned +1.16R. The average pick behind cost −0.64R. You do not need to be right most of the time when your losers are smaller than your winners.
The trailing stop is the quiet hero. It turned four losing picks from a 4R problem into a 1.5R one, and locked in seven picks that would otherwise have given their gains back.
Right direction, early timing, is still a stop. AUDCAD and EURCAD both went the way we read them, after reaching their stops. That is why every pick is sized so its stop costs exactly what we planned. We explain why that matters more than any strategy in our guide to blowing up your trading account.
The Whole Match, Not The Highlight Reel
Put the fortnight together.
Eighteen picks closed. Four reached all three targets, seven more finished in front at their trailing stop, four closed behind but cost a fraction of the plan, and three cost what they were sized for. The total is +8.21R. Every one of them is in the Currency Strength Performance Record, with its entry, stop, targets and result.
That is Direction Sniper:
- Direction. One verdict from the 4 hour and the daily, refreshed at every 4 hour close.
- Rallies and bounces that have not broken structure. EURCHF bounced through two of our stops this fortnight. Its bigger charts never turned.
- The stop loss. Every ticket arrives with its stop and three targets marked, and the trailing stop level shows how much is still at risk.
The Direction Scanner shows us which pairs are ready at each close. The 28 Pair Edition puts the tickets behind these results, the entry, the stop, the three targets and the trailing stop, on your own charts, on every major, minor and cross, MT4 or MT5, on one licence.
Every daily board lives on our Currency Strength Today page. A new weekly performance review is published every Saturday. Want the daily read in your inbox? Join The Daily Sniper Read, free, every trading day.
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Disclaimer: This post reports what the Direction Sniper panel showed on the tickets published in our Currency Strength Today reads from 28 October to 6 November 2026. Results are measured in R, multiples of each ticket’s original risk, using a fixed partial exit model of 50 percent at Target 1, 30 percent at Target 2 and 20 percent at Target 3. They are not the results of any trading account, and spread, commission and slippage are not included. Some exit levels are read from the chart and are marked approximate in the record. Price reaching a published target or stop level is not the same as a realised result. Past results do not guarantee future results. This is educational analysis, not financial advice and not a trade signal service, and nothing here is a recommendation to buy or sell. Forex and metals trading carries risk, and you should only trade money you can afford to lose.
