Known as 'Cable'. Sensitive to Bank of England decisions, UK inflation data and anything that shifts the dollar.
Where GBP/USD closed and how far it's moved over different timeframes.
| 20-day average | 1.33844 |
| 50-day average | 1.34574 |
| 200-day average | 1.34467 |
The averages don't line up in one direction, so there's no clean trend by this measure. Mixed conditions often mean choppier price action. In the shorter term, price is below its 20-day average. We tested whether this label predicts anything: on its own, it hasn't →
GBP/USD is 27% of the way from its 12-month low to its 12-month high. The average daily range of about 70 pips is a useful guide when sizing a stop: anything much tighter is likely to get caught by normal daily noise.
Levels many traders watch. They're reference points, not predictions: price respects some and slices through others. We tested whether pivots hold more often than random levels: they don't →
| Previous high | 1.32732 |
| Previous close | 1.32644 |
| Previous low | 1.31851 |
| Pivot R1 | 1.32966 |
| Daily pivot | 1.32409 |
| Pivot S1 | 1.32086 |
| This week's open | 1.32287 |
The gap between the two central banks' rates is one of the biggest long-term drivers of any currency pair.
| BoE (GBP) | 3.75% · on hold |
| Fed (USD) | 3.875% · hiking |
| Rate gap (GBP minus USD) | −0.12% |
USD pays 0.12% more. In theory, being short GBP/USD earns that gap overnight, and the other way round pays it. What your broker actually credits or charges will be less generous. All central bank rates →
Two-year government bond yields show what markets expect central banks to do over the next couple of years. Traders compare the two countries' yields as a guide to where money is being drawn.
| GBP 2-year yield | 4.60% · +0.21 in a month (1 Oct) |
| USD 2-year yield | 4.78% · +0.39 in a month (1 Oct) |
| Gap (GBP minus USD) | −0.18 points · −0.18 in a month |
| GBP/USD over the last month | −1.80% |
■ Yield gap, GBP minus USD, in points (left scale) ■ GBP/USD (right scale). Weekly, last two years. The two lines use different scales, so how closely they appear to track depends on how the axes are drawn. The correlations below are the fair test.
Read the gap as an explanation of moves that have already happened, not a forecast of the next one. Across 264 months since 2004, the change in the GBP/USD yield gap and the pair's move had a correlation of +0.22 in the same month and +0.04 in the month after. Over the last month the gap and GBP/USD moved the same way. See the full test → · How economic data moves currencies →
What the big speculators hold in GBP futures, from the weekly CFTC Commitments of Traders report.
| Net position (GBP futures) | −91,075 contracts |
| Change on the week | −8,507 |
| Share of open interest | -36.2% |
| Where that sits over 3 years | 3th percentile |
Large speculators (hedge funds and other big traders) as of Tue 29 Sep. Speculators being net short GBP lines up with being short GBP/USD. That's near the bottom of its 3-year range, which is sometimes read as a crowded trade. COT reports →
Scheduled data and speeches for GBP and USD from the Satdish economic calendar.