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AUDUSD at 0.69939, 12.9 pips into the New York range

USD Pending Home Sales m/m is due at 14:00 UTC, 24 minutes from now

AUDUSD · New York session · Published Oct 20, 2026, 1:35 PM

AUDUSD last traded at 0.69939, inside a New York session that has run 12.9 pips between 0.69841 and 0.69970. The nearest level above is the round number at 0.70000, 6.1 pips away, with the previous session high at 0.69989 just below it. Below sit the session open at 0.69842 and the previous session low at 0.69830, 9.7 and 10.9 pips down.

London ran 15.9 pips between 0.69830 and 0.69989 and closed at 0.69842, and the prior day covered 39.6 pips between 0.69534 and 0.69930. An ordinary day of the last 14 covers 47.9 pips, and the latest day sits at the 48th percentile of the last 42 days we hold, which is an ordinary day for this market.

The calendar holds one release of impact 2 or 3 in the next 24 hours, USD Pending Home Sales m/m at 14:00 UTC, forecast -0.6% against a previous 0.3%. Over 112 past releases of this family AUDUSD moved 4.59 pips on average in the first 15 minutes and 7.47 in the first 60, in either direction.

Large speculators are net short 117299 contracts, a change of -18711 on the week, the 0th percentile of the last 52 weekly reports. The headlines graded for AUDUSD include the Standard Chartered view on BoC rate hike bets at 12:44 UTC and the Gold move tied to Fed rate hike bets at 11:30 UTC, both graded 2 of 3.

Session brief

  1. AUDUSD, New York sessionOpen 0.69842, high 0.69970, low 0.69841, close 0.69939: a range of 12.9 pips over 96 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, London sessionOpen 0.69948, high 0.69989, low 0.69830, close 0.69842: a range of 15.9 pips over 300 minutes, from our own one-minute candles.
  4. AUDUSD, previous trading dayHigh 0.69930, low 0.69534, close 0.69797 on 2026-10-19, a range of 39.6 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 47.9 pips. The latest day sits at the 48th 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 USD1 scheduled releases of impact 2 or 3 in the 24 hours to 2026-10-21 13:35 UTC. Our calendar covers up to 2026-11-19 00:00 UTC.
  7. USD Pending Home Sales m/mScheduled 2026-10-20 14:00 UTC, impact 2 of 3. Forecast -0.6%. Previous 0.3%. From Forex Factory.
  8. AUDUSD reaction to housing_usdOver 112 past releases AUDUSD moved 4.59 pips on average in the first 15 minutes and 7.47 in the first 60, in either direction. Measured on our own one-minute candles.
  9. 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.
  10. Canadian Dollar: BoC rate hike bets seen as excessive - Standard CharteredFXStreet. Graded impact 2 of 3 for AUDUSD by our headline classifier.
  11. Gold extends losses as rising Oil prices reinforce Fed rate hike betsFXStreet. Graded impact 2 of 3 for AUDUSD by our headline classifier.

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