My currency exchange rates charts page

In my travels I found that foreign exchange traders OzForex (aka UKForex) have charts on their site that you can hotlink to. I thought it’d be interesting to have a view of lots of different currency rates all together so you can compare visually their trends against one another, so I created this page that shows the US Dollar, Australian Dollar, UK Pound Sterling and the Euro on charts against each other.

Each currency is on its own horizontal row and vertical row, and where the currency would overlap itself (i.e. AUD/AUD) I have overlaid the graphs so that you can compare all three other currencies against one another.

I think it’s pretty interesting; it highlights the strength or weakness of a currency more effectively than comparing it against just one other currency; an example is that the AUD takes a dive against the USD around November 21, 2008; you can easily see that the AUD dipped against the EUR and GBP as well, although the USD spiked upwards slightly at the same time which made the AUD appear even weaker.

I’ve also just noticed that OzForex have spot rates charts too which would be a lot more useful for actual currency trading, if you wanted to try and get the best rate on a given day, so I’ll have to get around to creating a similar page using those.