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There are six price-channel breakouts among the 124 currency pairs I follow, 13 with strong trends.

Strong-Trend Breakouts

sym	phase	adx	bday	blevel	stop	atr	atr%
AUD/CZK		28	sep9	Kč 18.569	Kč 18.340	0.229	1.2%
DKK/HUF		31	sep9	Ft 37.438	Ft 36.978	0.460	1.2%
EUR/HUF		35	sep9	Ft 279.02	Ft 275.66	3.36	1.2%
NZD/HUF		25	sep9	Ft 166.54	Ft 163.56	2.98	1.8%
PLN/CZK		45	sep8	Kč 5.7005	Kč 5.7612	0.0607	1.1%
PLN/JPY		32	sep8	¥25.392	¥25.914	0.522	2.1%

Major currency pairs, which carry lower margin in the United States, are marked with a plus sign (+) after the symbol. My holdings are marked with an asterisk (*).

Weak-Trend Breakouts

sym	phase	adx	bday	blevel	stop	atr	atr%
CZK/JPY		16	sep9	¥4.396	¥4.372	0.068	1.6%
EUR/HKD		23	sep9	HK$10.7884	HK$10.7325	0.1298	1.2%
EUR/USD+*		17	sep9	US$1.3837	US$1.4007	0.0170	1.2%
GBP/CZK		17	sep9	Kč 28.276	Kč 27.948	0.328	1.2%
GBP/HUF		20	sep9	Ft 319.51	Ft 314.15	5.36	1.7%
USD/CZK		21	sep9	Kč 17.529	Kč 17.274	0.255	1.5%
USD/DKK+*		22	sep9	Dkr 5.3888	Dkr 5.3264	0.0624	1.2%

Major currency pairs, which carry lower margin in the United States, are marked with a plus sign (+) after the symbol. My holdings are marked with an asterisk (*).

Key

• phase: Green for a bull-phase breakout, red for a bear phase.
• adx: Average direction index location, indicating the strength, or the temperature, of the trend. Orange for 40 or greater, aqua (light blue) for 25 and up but below 40, magenta (light purple) for 20 and up but below 25, and brown for anything below 20. (Mnemonic: Orange for the overhead sun, blue for the surrounding sky, magenta for sunset on the horizon and brown for the earth.)
• bday: Breakout day, the day the price broke through the upper or lower 55-day price line.
• blevel: Breakout level, the price level of the line that was broken through.
• bstop: The stop/loss price calculated on breakout days as the 14-day average true range below the breakout-day low for a bull phase and above thre breakout-day high for a bear phase.
• atr: The 14-day average true range, in the same currency as the price.
• atr%: The average true range as a percentage of the breakout level, an indicator of volatility that is comparable for all potential trades.

About channel analysis

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