Currency Strength Duel
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Yuki Nakayama
I am Yuki, an independent developer in Japan. I build indicators and utilities for MetaTrader 5 and publish them here on the MQL5 Market. Every tool has a free edition, so you can see how it behaves on your own charts before you consider the paid one. - Version: 1.48
- Updated: 2 October 2026
Currency Strength Duel is a free currency strength meter for MetaTrader 5. It answers one question, which currency is being bought right now and which is being sold, by ranking the 8 forex majors from strongest to weakest on the last closed bar of the timeframe you pick (H1 by default), with optional gold and Bitcoin rows, and it alerts you when the leader changes. Pair the strongest currency against the weakest. It resolves the common broker suffixes (#, ., m, micro, pro, +, _i, c) on its own, so the pairs are found on your broker without manual setup.
Most strength meters throw eight tangled lines at you. This one does the hard part for you: a clean center-divergent bar for each currency (green means being bought, red means being sold), ranked strongest at the top and weakest at the bottom, so the trade pairs stand out at a glance. There is no learning curve.
It does not stop at which currency is strong. A strongest-versus-weakest duel at the top names the exact trade on your broker and the direction, for example BUY EURAUD or SELL AUDUSD, and shows whether the gap between the two is widening or narrowing. You see the precise pair and direction to act on, not just the currencies.
Everything is one click away on the panel: switch the timeframe or the calculation method with no inputs dialog and no reloading. LOCK pins the duel to your current chart pair, PICK lets you tap any two rows to compare the two currencies you choose, and tapping the duel opens that pair's chart instantly.
Key features
Ranking of the 8 FX majors on closed bars (a forming-bar option is in the inputs), plus optional Gold, with real country flags. A strongest-versus-weakest duel that names the actual tradeable pair and direction on your broker and shows whether the opportunity is growing. Two calculation methods: price-change percent, or distance from a moving average. Alerts when the strongest or weakest currency changes, by popup, sound, push or email (also while the panel is minimised). Automatic broker and account adaptation that finds your tradeable symbols for you. A clean, draggable, resizable panel that remembers its position, in English or Japanese, lightweight, with no DLLs.
How to use
Drop it on any chart, because it reads the whole market, not just that chart. Choose your timeframe and method, then buy the strongest currency against the weakest and let the alert tell you when leadership shifts. Every input and every row of the panel is explained in the user guide on the author's blog: Currency Strength Duel user guide
Optional Bitcoin row
Want to watch crypto next to the FX majors? Set Include Bitcoin (BTC) to true and the panel adds Bitcoin as an optional extra row, just like it can show gold. It auto-detects your broker's Bitcoin symbol (BTCUSD, BTCEUR, BTCGBP or BTCJPY), so there is nothing to configure. BTC-based pairs are kept out of the eight currencies' own strength averages, so the eight keep their order relative to each other; but when the BTC row is on, BTC itself takes part in the ranking and can therefore appear in the strongest-versus-weakest duel, the summary line and the leader-change alert.
Trend Dashboard PRO
Trend Dashboard PRO is a sister product: a plain LONG / SHORT / WAIT call on every symbol across all your timeframes, with a multi-condition vote and one-click chart switching. Its own user guide explains what it adds.
This is a decision-support tool, not an automated system; it does not place trades.
Most strength meters throw eight tangled lines at you. This one does the hard part for you: a clean center-divergent bar for each currency (green means being bought, red means being sold), ranked strongest at the top and weakest at the bottom, so the trade pairs stand out at a glance. There is no learning curve.
It does not stop at which currency is strong. A strongest-versus-weakest duel at the top names the exact trade on your broker and the direction, for example BUY EURAUD or SELL AUDUSD, and shows whether the gap between the two is widening or narrowing. You see the precise pair and direction to act on, not just the currencies.
Everything is one click away on the panel: switch the timeframe or the calculation method with no inputs dialog and no reloading. LOCK pins the duel to your current chart pair, PICK lets you tap any two rows to compare the two currencies you choose, and tapping the duel opens that pair's chart instantly.
Key features
Ranking of the 8 FX majors on closed bars (a forming-bar option is in the inputs), plus optional Gold, with real country flags. A strongest-versus-weakest duel that names the actual tradeable pair and direction on your broker and shows whether the opportunity is growing. Two calculation methods: price-change percent, or distance from a moving average. Alerts when the strongest or weakest currency changes, by popup, sound, push or email (also while the panel is minimised). Automatic broker and account adaptation that finds your tradeable symbols for you. A clean, draggable, resizable panel that remembers its position, in English or Japanese, lightweight, with no DLLs.
How to use
Drop it on any chart, because it reads the whole market, not just that chart. Choose your timeframe and method, then buy the strongest currency against the weakest and let the alert tell you when leadership shifts. Every input and every row of the panel is explained in the user guide on the author's blog: Currency Strength Duel user guide
Optional Bitcoin row
Want to watch crypto next to the FX majors? Set Include Bitcoin (BTC) to true and the panel adds Bitcoin as an optional extra row, just like it can show gold. It auto-detects your broker's Bitcoin symbol (BTCUSD, BTCEUR, BTCGBP or BTCJPY), so there is nothing to configure. BTC-based pairs are kept out of the eight currencies' own strength averages, so the eight keep their order relative to each other; but when the BTC row is on, BTC itself takes part in the ranking and can therefore appear in the strongest-versus-weakest duel, the summary line and the leader-change alert.
Trend Dashboard PRO
Trend Dashboard PRO is a sister product: a plain LONG / SHORT / WAIT call on every symbol across all your timeframes, with a multi-condition vote and one-click chart switching. Its own user guide explains what it adds.
This is a decision-support tool, not an automated system; it does not place trades.
