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AUDUSD at 0.69753, 11.6 pips into the London range

No release of impact 2 or 3 is scheduled for AUD or USD in the next 24 hours

AUDUSD · London session · Published Oct 19, 2026, 8:30 AM

AUDUSD last traded at 0.69753, inside a London session that has run 11.6 pips between 0.69690 and 0.69806 since the 0.69800 open. The nearest level above is the session open and previous session high at 0.69800, 4.7 pips away, with the round number at 0.70000 a further 24.7 pips up. Below, the prior day high sits 7.9 pips down at 0.69674 and the previous session low 21.9 pips down at 0.69534.

The Asia session ran 26.6 pips between 0.69534 and 0.69800 and closed at 0.69799. The prior trading day covered 51.2 pips, and an ordinary day of the last 14 covers 49.6 pips, with the latest day at the 69th percentile of the last 42 days we hold, which the volatility source calls an ordinary day for this market.

Our calendar covers the whole 24-hour window to 2026-10-20 08:30 UTC and lists 0 scheduled releases of impact 2 or 3 for AUD and USD, with coverage out to 2026-11-18 00:00 UTC.

Large speculators in the CFTC Commitments of Traders report of 2026-10-13 are net short 117299 contracts, a change of -18711 on the week and the 0th percentile of the last 52 weekly reports. The headlines our classifier grades for AUDUSD all carry impact 2 of 3, led by an Action Forex piece on GBP/USD and UK CPI at 07:14 UTC and an FXStreet note on the Japanese Yen at 06:52 UTC.

Session brief

  1. AUDUSD, London sessionOpen 0.69800, high 0.69806, low 0.69690, close 0.69753: a range of 11.6 pips over 91 minutes, from our own one-minute candles.
  2. AUDUSD reference levelsPrevious day and previous week high and low, the session open and the round numbers either side, measured on our own candles.
  3. AUDUSD, Asia sessionOpen 0.69696, high 0.69800, low 0.69534, close 0.69799: a range of 26.6 pips over 595 minutes, from our own one-minute candles.
  4. AUDUSD, previous trading dayHigh 0.69674, low 0.69162, close 0.69460 on 2026-10-16, a range of 51.2 pips, from our own candles on the trading day that starts 17:00 New York.
  5. AUDUSD daily rangeAn ordinary day of the last 14 covers 49.6 pips. The latest day sits at the 69th percentile of the last 42 days we hold, which is an ordinary day for this market. Measured on our own candles.
  6. Economic calendar for AUD and USD0 scheduled releases of impact 2 or 3 in the 24 hours to 2026-10-20 08:30 UTC. Our calendar covers up to 2026-11-18 00:00 UTC.
  7. CFTC Commitments of Traders, 232741Large speculators are net short 117299 contracts, a change of -18711 on the week. That is the 0th percentile of the last 52 weekly reports.
  8. GBP/USD Reversal Test: Can UK CPI Sustain BoE Tightening Bets Beyond November?Action Forex. Graded impact 2 of 3 for AUDUSD by our headline classifier.
  9. Japanese Yen holds steady near 158.00 as BoJ's Ueda says underlying inflation close to targetFXStreet. Graded impact 2 of 3 for AUDUSD by our headline classifier.

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