Index components of the several major currencies?

Discussion in 'Forex' started by joederp, Jan 26, 2014.

  1. joederp

    joederp

    For backtesting correlations amongst major currencies, I'm looking for references regarding which instruments, currency or other, constitute:

    1) EUR
    2) GBP
    3) JPY
    4) AUD

    similar to the U.S. Dollar Index as-described on Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/U.S._Dollar_Index ..."It is a weighted geometric mean of the dollar's value compared only with "basket" of 6 other major currencies which are:

    Euro (EUR), 57.6% weight
    Japanese yen (JPY) 13.6% weight
    Pound sterling (GBP), 11.9% weight
    Canadian dollar (CAD), 9.1% weight
    Swedish krona (SEK), 4.2% weight and
    Swiss franc (CHF) 3.6% weight"

    I looked around the forexuseful.com site referenced by the wiki for those weights, and don't see anything concerning other currency index weight schedules.

    Far as EUR, did notice a (rough) article here (http://forexltd.co.uk/trade/contrspec/eurx/) concerning the NYBOT/ICE EURX contract: "The current value of Euro Index is a mean value of rate fluctuation of five world currencies (USD, GBP, JPY, CHF and SEK) regarding Euro...The greatest part of foreign trade of EU members falls to USA (31.55%), after which come Great Britain (30.56%), Switzerland (11.13%), Japan (11.13%), and Sweden (7.85%)."

    Any info?