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Price & Time: USD/JPY Flirting With Danger

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  • USD/JPY tests key downside pivot
  • EUR/USD overcomes important resistance barrier
  • Gold closing in on big retracement

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Foreign Exchange Price Time at a Glance:

Price Time Analysis: EUR/USD

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Charts Created using Marketscope – Prepared by Kristian Kerr

  • EUR/USD overcame last week’s 1.3820 high yesterday
  • Our near-term trend bias is now positive on the Euro
  • The 78.6% retracement of March/April range at 1.3900 is the next key upside pivot
  • A minor cycle turn window is eyed on Friday
  • A move under 1.3745 is needed to re-focus lower

EUR/USD Strategy: Square for now, looking to buy on weakness in the days ahead.

Price Time Analysis: GOLD

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Charts Created using Marketscope – Prepared by Kristian Kerr

  • XAU/USD has moved steadily higher since finding support last week just under the 50% retracement of the December/March advance at 1285
  • Our near-term trend bias is lower in the metal while below 1335
  • Interim support is seen around 1300, but weakness under 1285 is required to signal a resumption of the medium-term downtrend
  • This week is an important cycle turn window
  • A daily close over 1335 will turn us positive on Gold

XAU/USD Strategy: Reduced short positions favored while below 1335.

Focus Chart of the Day: USD/JPY

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USD/JPY has come under steady pressure since failing at the top end of a rising trend channel near 104.00 last week. The exchange rate is now closing in on key support at 101.35, which is the 4th square root relationship of the year’s high. This level has proven to be formidable over the past couple of months as the exchange rate has only settled below it once since early February. Our big concern is that the failure around the start of the year at the long-term Fibonacci confluence in the 105.50 area was just the start of a more important and complex corrective process. Weakness below 101.35 and 100.75 in the days would be a very strong sign that a new leg lower of this process is unfolding. A minor cycle turn window is seen today, but the next truly important cyclical period looks to be the second half of NEXT week. A high during this time would be a very negative development. Only strength back over 103.35 relieves the immediate downside pressure.

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Written by Kristian Kerr, Senior Currency Strategist for DailyFX.com

This publication attempts to further explore the concept that mass movements of human psychology, as represented by the financial markets, are subject to the mathematical laws of nature and through the use of various geometric, arithmetic, statistical and cyclical techniques a better understanding of markets and their corresponding movements can be achieved.

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EURUSD Weekly Technical Analysis: New Month, More Weakness

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  • EURUSD broke the ‘neckline’ of a bearish ‘head-and-shoulders’ pattern, April trend-line
  • Resistance in vicinity of 11825/80 likely to keep a lid on further strength
  • Targeting the low to mid-11600s with more selling

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Coming into last week we pointed out the likelihood of finally seeing a resolution of the range EURUSD had been stuck in for the past few weeks, and one of the outcomes we made note of as a possibility was for the triggering of a ’head-and-shoulders’ pattern. Indeed, we saw a break of the ’neckline’ along with a drop below the April trend-line. This led to decent selling before a minor bounce took shape during the latter part of last week.

Looking ahead to next week the euro is set up for further losses as the path of least resistance has turned lower. Looking to a capper on any further strength there is resistance in the 11825-11880 area (old support becomes new resistance). As long as the euro stays below this area a downward bias will remain firmly intact.

Looking lower towards support eyes will be on the August low at 11662 and the 2016 high of 11616, of which the latter just happens to align almost precisely with the measured move target of the ‘head-and-shoulders’ pattern (determined by subtracting the height of the pattern from the neckline).

Bottom line: Shorts look set to have the upperhand as a fresh month gets underway as long as the euro remains capped by resistance. On weakness, we’ll be watching how the euro responds to a drop into support levels.

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EURUSD Weekly Technical Analysis: New Month, More Weakness

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Euro Bias Mixed Heading into October, Q4’17

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Euro Bias Mixed Heading into October, Q4'17

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EURUSD: Retail trader data shows 37.3% of traders are net-long with the ratio of traders short to long at 1.68 to 1. In fact, traders have remained net-short since Apr 18 when EURUSD traded near 1.07831; price has moved 9.6% higher since then. The number of traders net-long is 15.4% lower than yesterday and 16.4% higher from last week, while the number of traders net-short is 0.4% higher than yesterday and 10.5% lower from last week.

We typically take a contrarian view to crowd sentiment, and the fact traders are net-short suggests EURUSD prices may continue to rise. Positioning is more net-short than yesterday but less net-short from last week. The combination of current sentiment and recent changes gives us a further mixed EURUSD trading bias.

— Written by Christopher Vecchio, CFA, Senior Currency Strategist

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British Pound Reversal Potential Persists Heading into New Quarter

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British Pound Reversal Potential Persists Heading into New Quarter

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GBPUSD: Retail trader data shows 38.2% of traders are net-long with the ratio of traders short to long at 1.62 to 1. In fact, traders have remained net-short since Sep 05 when GBPUSD traded near 1.29615; price has moved 3.4% higher since then. The number of traders net-long is 0.1% higher than yesterday and 13.4% higher from last week, while the number of traders net-short is 10.6% lower than yesterday and 18.3% lower from last week.

We typically take a contrarian view to crowd sentiment, and the fact traders are net-short suggests GBPUSD prices may continue to rise. Yet traders are less net-short than yesterday and compared with last week. Recent changes in sentiment warn that the current GBPUSD price trend may soon reverse lower despite the fact traders remain net-short.

— Written by Christopher Vecchio, CFA, Senior Currency Strategist

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