Weekly DAO｜Currencies to Watch Next Week (First week of August 2026)

～Market Environment Awareness Read Through with DAO～

Hello. Thank you for reading this week's "Weekly DAO."

With August upon us, the heat continues to be intense. When checking charts for long periods, it’s important to take frequent breaks and face the market at a comfortable pace.

In the foreign exchange market, it is believed that on July 30 the government and the Bank of Japan intervened by buying yen and selling dollars, and the USDJPY fell rapidly from the upper 160s to the mid-150s. From the BoJ’s liquidity data, the intervention scale may have reached around 8 trillion yen.

In situations where prices move so sharply in a short period, directions on the shorter timeframes that were functioning up until just before can temporarily lose their meaning. Rather than chasing the move immediately after the intervention, it is important to re-check the relationship with the EMA20 on higher timeframes such as H1, H4, and D1 once the market has settled down.

This week too, using the environmental awareness indicator "DAO" that I actually use in my trading, I will整理整理 [note: translate as organize/lay out] currencies, indices, and crypto assets to watch next week.

This project is not an article predicting the market’s future. With DAO, we confirm the directional trend across multiple timeframes and the distance from the current price,and determine which timeframe’s market participants currently hold the leadat this point.

This article is a summary of my personal market awareness and is not investment advice recommending the buying or selling of any particular financial product. In actual trading, please value your own judgment and risk management and use the information as one reference among others.

This Week’s DAO One-Point

Touch Alert Feature

The feature we will introduce is theupper-timeframe EMA20 touch alert.

The EMA20 on higher timeframes can be watched as a candidate for pullbacks or retracements. However, monitoring multiple currencies and watching a chart until price reaches EMA20 is not easy.

In DAO, you can receive a notification when price touches EMA20 on timeframes such as H4, D1, W1, or MN1. After receiving the notification, open the chart and check the candlestick reaction and the direction on lower timeframes to efficiently focus on the areas that need analysis.

However, a touch of EMA20 is not a buy/sell signal.It is a cue to begin verifying important pricesand use it in a DAO-like manner.

Top 3 Currencies to Watch Next Week

3rd place: AUDUSD

All EMA20s on monthly, weekly, daily, 4-hour, and 1-hour timeframes are rising, aligning the direction from long-term to short-term toward the buyers. The distance to H1 EMA20 is 13.0p, and to H4 it is 38.5p, making it a favorable environment to compare the short-term pullback with the higher-timeframe bullish direction.

2nd place: BTCUSD

All timeframe EMA20s are downward, and DAO clearly shows a bearish tilt. At the same time, the current price is far from the H1 and H4 EMA20, so even if the directions are aligned, it is not an easy position to chase. This is a noteworthy asset to study for observing the distance between pullbacks and EMA20.

1st place: GBPUSD