Source: https://forexiapro.com/glossary/the-tuesday-anchor/ # The Tuesday Anchor: The Tuesday Reversal, Read on Three Real Tuesdays The Tuesday Anchor is the Tuesday reversal: Tuesday spends the range, hunts past Monday's extreme and turns. The rest of the week swings from that turn. It is a word for what a Tuesday did, and some Tuesdays never do it. It is the turn that starts the [midweek reversal](/weekly-cycle/). [![The Tuesday Anchor diagram: a falling week, Tuesday hunting under Monday's low through the crowd's stops, then turning and swinging up](/seo/the-tuesday-anchor/the-tuesday-anchor-hunt-and-turn-diagram.webp)](/seo/the-tuesday-anchor/the-tuesday-anchor-hunt-and-turn-diagram.webp) Diagram: Tuesday hunts past Monday's low, then turns. The real days are below. ## What does the Tuesday Anchor look like on a chart? It looks like the day the week's trend ends. On GBP/USD the week of 27 July 2026 opened at 1.33198 and fell to Monday's low of 1.32842, 36 pips under the open. That is [the Induction Trend](/glossary/the-induction-trend/): a drift the crowd follows. On Tuesday 28 July the pound went under Monday's low in London. The low came at 06:15 New York, at 1.32733, 11 pips through the level. We read that as [a Stop Hunt](/glossary/the-stop-hunt/): the sell stops of everyone who had joined the fall filled the buyers' orders. By the 08:15 candle price had closed at 1.32854, back above Monday's low. It rose 38 pips to 1.33110 by 11:45. [![The Tuesday Anchor on GBP/USD, 15-minute chart, 28 July 2026: London hunts 11 pips under Monday's low at 06:15 to 1.32733, then rises 38 pips to 1.33110](/seo/the-tuesday-anchor/gbpusd-tuesday-anchor-28-july-2026.webp)](/seo/the-tuesday-anchor/gbpusd-tuesday-anchor-28-july-2026.webp) GBP/USD, Tuesday 28 July 2026. London hunts under Monday's low, 1.32842, to 1.32733 at 06:15 and reverses 38 pips to 1.33110. Real 15-minute candles. That 1.32733 stayed the low of the week. The week's high, 1.34947, came on Friday at 16:45: 221 pips above it. The week swung from Tuesday, which is why we call the Tuesday the anchor. We only know it was the week's low because the week is over. Check the calendar before reading anything into the timing. Nothing in it lined up with the 06:15 low. The medium-impact US releases that morning were ADP's four-week average at 08:15, house prices at 09:00 and Consumer Confidence at 10:00, so the close back at 08:15 shared its candle with the first of them. ## Does forex reverse on Tuesday? Sometimes, and the pound is the Tuesday that did. Two others show the rest of the range of outcomes. **The Tuesday that slipped.** On USD/CAD the week of 3 August, Monday's high was 1.40532. Tuesday 4 August ran through it, to a high of 1.40799 at 12:30, 27 pips over. From 07:45 every 15-minute candle closed over Monday's high, and the day's last candle ended at 1.40618. No turn on Tuesday. On Wednesday the high came at 02:15, at 1.40798, one tenth of a pip under Tuesday's. Price then fell 75 pips to the low at 14:15. Wednesday had a high-impact ADP at 08:15 and ISM Services at 10:00, so that fall is not only the week's structure. In our words the turn moved to Wednesday, which is the [mid-week reversal](/glossary/mid-week-reversal/). **The Tuesday that never turned.** On gold the week of 7 September, Monday was Labor Day in America, a short day. Monday's low was 4380.94. Tuesday 8 September traded around it for hours, and the 14:45 candle was the first to close under it, at 4375.44. Every candle after it closed under too. The day ended at 4355.51, $25 under Monday's low, with the low at 4345.02 on the last candle. No US release was on the calendar that day. [![XAU/USD, 15-minute chart, 8 September 2026: price goes under Monday's low of 4380.94 at 14:45 and closes the day under it, with the day's low at 4345.02 at 16:45](/seo/the-tuesday-anchor/xauusd-tuesday-through-mondays-low-8-september-2026.webp)](/seo/the-tuesday-anchor/xauusd-tuesday-through-mondays-low-8-september-2026.webp) XAU/USD, Tuesday 8 September 2026. The first close under Monday's low is the 14:45 candle, 4375.44, and Tuesday never closes back over it. Real 15-minute candles. Gold did bounce on Wednesday, about $93 from 4340.97 to 4433.78 by 09:30. It did not hold. The week's low, 4291.95, came on Friday 11 September at 08:30, on US CPI: [a reversal candle](/glossary/the-reversal-candle/) read from the other side. ## What does each seat see on Tuesday? Retail sees a break past Monday's extreme as more of the trend, one more day to join. The market maker sees Monday's extreme as where the stops rest, and the break as the way to fill the other side. The observer sees neither until the hunt is over, and asks whether price has closed back. The first two seats are the same candle read from opposite sides. That is also why we point to [the previous day's high and low](/glossary/previous-days-high-and-low/): Monday's extreme is the level everyone can see on Tuesday. ## How is the Tuesday Anchor different from ADR Met Tuesday and the mid-week reversal? [ADR Met Tuesday](/glossary/adr-met-tuesday/) is a measurement: Tuesday's range has reached its 20-day average. It is one confirmation the Anchor may carry, and we make no claim that it helps or hurts. The mid-week reversal is where the turn lands when Tuesday does not make it. The Anchor is the reading of the day itself. All three belong to [the Weekly Script](/glossary/the-weekly-script/), the order a week tends to follow, which the [weekly cycle](/weekly-cycle/) hub sets out. ## What do traders get wrong about the Tuesday Anchor? Three readings cost the most. - **Calling a Tuesday an anchor because the week turned.** The pound anchored. The USD/CAD Tuesday did not, and the turn came a day later. - **Counting two pairs on one morning as two Tuesdays.** On 28 July the euro made the same dollar move as the pound. It is one day. - **Treating the picture as a setup.** A Tuesday you can see turned is a Tuesday after it turned. Our own test of the setup as a mechanical rule did not make money, which is why the course teaches the read, and why gold's Tuesday is on this page as well as the pound's. ## Which words does the Tuesday Anchor lead into? Four sit next to it. - [The Induction Trend](/glossary/the-induction-trend/): the Sunday to Tuesday trend the crowd follows. - [ADR Met Tuesday](/glossary/adr-met-tuesday/): the average daily range used up by Tuesday. - [The Midweek Trap](/glossary/the-midweek-trap/): Wednesday's trap, a multi-day M. - [Mid-Week Reversal](/glossary/mid-week-reversal/): the turn that lands on Wednesday. ## Where is the Tuesday Anchor taught? Lesson 4.2.3, The Tuesday Anchor, Step by Step, is in [Course 4 of ForexiaPRO](/pro), The Week, in production. ## Related words - [ADR Met Tuesday: When the Average Daily Range Is Used Up, and How Often It Is](/glossary/adr-met-tuesday/) - [The Previous Day's High and Low: What Rests There, and How Often Price Closes Back](/glossary/previous-days-high-and-low/) - [The Induction Trend: Why I Lose Money Trading the Trend the Week Starts With](/glossary/the-induction-trend/) - [Mid-Week Reversal: How to Spot the Turn on the Hourly Chart](/glossary/mid-week-reversal/) ## Frequently asked questions ### What is the Tuesday Anchor? It is Forexia's word for the Tuesday reversal. Tuesday spends the range, hunts past Monday's high or low and turns, and the rest of the week swings from that turn. It is a reading of a day, and plenty of Tuesdays do not do it. ### Does forex reverse on Tuesday? Sometimes. On GBP/USD on 28 July 2026 Tuesday hunted 11 pips under Monday's low at 06:15 New York and made the low of the week. On USD/CAD on 4 August Tuesday stayed over Monday's high, and on gold on 8 September it closed $25 under Monday's low. We make no claim about how often Tuesday turns. ### What happens if Tuesday does not turn? The turn can move to Wednesday, which Forexia calls the mid-week reversal. On USD/CAD on 4 August, Wednesday's high came within a tenth of a pip of Tuesday's, and price then fell 75 pips. On gold on 8 September, Wednesday bounced and did not hold. ### Is the Tuesday Anchor a trade? No. It is a word for what a Tuesday did, seen once the day is over. A reversal that you can see afterwards is not a setup, and our own test of the setup as a mechanical rule did not make money.