This content is entirely independent and unsponorsed. Carlo Pruscino is simply someone whose views I find worth paying attention to: with close to four decades of forex trading experience, he brings a depth of market knowledge that is increasingly rare, and the perspectives he shares on currency correlations, cross-market dynamics and trader psychology are genuinely useful regardless of what markets you follow.
Carlo has been trading currencies since before 1990, and the central argument he makes after nearly four decades in the market is deceptively simple: every trader, regardless of what they think they are trading, is fundamentally a forex trader. Gold, oil, silver, cryptocurrencies, all are priced in US dollars. If you are trading any of them, you are taking a view on the dollar whether you know it or not.
That premise shapes everything else Pruscino discusses. Currencies, in his framing, are not merely exchange rates but economic barometers, reflecting the relative health of the nations that issue them. The US dollar occupies a unique position at the centre of that system as the world’s reserve currency, meaning that shifts in central bank reserve allocations, even modest ones, can produce outsized price movements. The eight most liquid currencies globally are the dollar, euro, yen, pound sterling, Australian dollar, Swiss franc, Canadian dollar and New Zealand dollar, and understanding how they interact is, Pruscino argues, the foundation of reading any market.
The cross-market correlations are where his experience shows most clearly. High oil prices, for example, are broadly positive for the Canadian dollar given Canada’s energy export base, but act as a drag on economies like Japan and Europe, which are major oil importers. The Australian dollar he characterises as a fair weather sailor, sensitive to interest rate expectations, global equity sentiment and commodity prices in roughly equal measure. The Japanese yen, by contrast, he expects to remain under pressure as long as interest rates in other major economies stay elevated relative to Japan, keeping the currency a natural target for carry trades.
On execution, Pruscino advocates matching trading style to market conditions. In volatile periods, a faster, shorter-term approach is more appropriate than trying to hold positions through noise. He identifies three non-negotiable skills for any serious trader: technical charting, fundamental analysis and emotional mastery, with the last of those frequently underestimated. On information, he sees real-time social media, particularly X, as a useful complement to traditional news wires, but stresses the need to verify before acting.
His twelve-month outlook is cautiously constructive on commodity currencies and the euro, contingent on geopolitical tensions easing and global growth holding up
