Live Currency Heat Map

A currency heat map shows how far each pair has moved over several timeframes at once, so you can see which currencies are gaining or losing without opening each chart. Each cell is the price change over the window in its column header, from 1 minute to Monthly. A positive value means the base currency (listed first) strengthened against the quote currency. In a hypothetical reading of +40 on EURUSD Daily, the euro gained 40 pips against the dollar; −40 means it lost that much.

Pips or percent

A pip is the standard price increment, 0.0001 for most pairs and 0.01 for yen pairs. High-priced or wide-ranging pairs such as USDMXN, USDTRY and XAUUSD therefore post pip counts that look extreme next to EURUSD even when the underlying move is similar. Percent removes that distortion:

% change = (current price − price at start of window) ÷ price at start of window × 100

Use percent to rank moves across different pairs. Use pips when you need the move in the units your stop, target or position size is set in.

Reading across timeframes

When the same sign runs from short windows through Daily and Weekly, the move is consistent across those horizons. When signs flip, for example a short-term dip inside a weekly gain, the shorter timeframe shows a pullback or noise, not a reversal. Filters (All, Majors, Crosses, Metals) narrow the rows; Currency strength ranks individual currencies by daily move, and Biggest movers lists the pairs with the largest daily change.

What drives it and what it is not

Moves cluster around data releases, central bank decisions and session opens, which the economic calendar and market hours pages cover. Pairs sharing a currency often move together; the correlation table quantifies this.

Prices come from Yahoo Finance feeds, so your broker’s quotes can differ slightly. The map measures price change only, not volume, resting orders or liquidation levels; for resting orders, see the order book.