Sitting in the middle of its recent range at the beginning of a week laden with risk events, 146.50 looms as a potential level USD/JPY traders can build setups around. With price and momentum breaking their respective downtrends last week, and with no meaningful sign of further deterioration in the US labour market based on recent jobless claims data, buying dips...
Media reports suggest Chinese authorities are considering allowing homeowners to refinance up to $5.4 trillion in mortgages at significantly lower interest rates, providing the type of circuit-breaker that could boost consumption and reverse the downturn in the property sector. While it’s not the first time we’ve seen speculation over measures to boost flagging...
USD/CHF trades to a fresh weekly high (0.8494) after testing the January low (0.8401).
USD/CHF Rate Outlook
USD/CHF appears to be defending the yearly range as it bounces back ahead of the December low (0.8333), with the rebound in the exchange rate pulling the Relative Strength Index (RSI) out of oversold territory.
A break/close above the 0.8550 (78.6%...
Nvidia’s pain may be the Russell 2000s gain, if sentiment towards the US economic outlook holds up. The rotation of capital out of AI names has to go somewhere, and as we’ve seen over recent months, that’s often been into US small cap stocks which trade at substantially lower valuations.
While the price action since Jerome Powell’s speech last Friday hasn’t been...
Silver’s been on a nice run recently, benefitting from an easing of concerns towards the trajectory for US economy. That’s because unlike gold which has been heavily influenced by movements in the US dollar and bond yields, silver has been extremely correlated with copper futures over the past month, another industrial metal closely tied to economic...
GBP/USD has been on an absolute bullish tear over the last 3 weeks. The pair has rallied from below 1.27 earlier this month to trade above 1.32 as of writing, a 500+ pip rally with rates rising in 13 of the last 15 trading days.
Not surprisingly, the pair is clearly overbought after such a strong move, but that’s no guarantee that it will necessarily pull back...
Looking at A50 on the daily, you can see the index has been stuck in a downtrend since the middle of May, with only brief countertrend rallies interrupting the broader move lower. The index looks to be in another right now, grinding higher after bottoming in early August. However, the price has been rejected multiple times at the 200-day moving average, including...
It's been a painful first two months of Q3 for the US Dollar. Bears started the push shortly after the July open, and with USD/JPY carry unwind starting shortly after, there's been a constant and near-continuous push from sellers.
At this point, the USD finished last week with RSI in oversold territory for the first time since January of 2018. That episode...
With little meaningful US data on the calendar until Thursday, the boost provided to the soft economic landing narrative from Jerome Powell’s speech last Friday likely has room to run. For a cyclical currency such as AUD/USD, that’s good news for bulls.
Monday’s minor pullback looks corrective in nature and may reflect unease at the fluid situation in the Middle...
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Russell 2000 futures sit on uptrend support, making Friday’s close important following Jerome Powell’s speech at Jackson Hole.
To get excited about US small caps, you need a soft economic landing and lower borrowing costs given many of its constituents are unprofitable and reliant on capital markets. Given Powell will discuss rate cuts and flag confidence in the...
Turning our attention to GBP/JPY, there's a clear technical setup: The pair saw a massive selloff through late July and early August, culminating in a brief test of the 1-year lows (in this case at 179.00) before forming a gradual recovery/bearish flag setup below the 200-day MA.
Moving forward, bulls will want to see if GBP/JPY can break durably above its...
Looking at EUR/JPY , the cross nearly fell to its 1-year low near the 154.00 handle in the peak of the panic on August 5th, but the exchange rate has since recovered more than 1200 pips to trade back in the 162.00s as of writing.
However, EUR/JPY’s recovery has been far more tepid and gradual than the initial selloff, creating a possible “bearish flag” pattern on...
It's been a strong trend in EUR/USD over the past few weeks. Last week saw a minor pullback with support showing at prior trendline resistance, and that was followed by an aggressive bullish breakout that pushed up to fresh yearly highs yesterday.
The move is well priced-in at this point and from the daily chart, RSI pushed deeply into overbought territory with...
EUR/USD has surged to highs not seen since July 2023. However, such has been the rush to buy since the start of August, it’s now sitting at extremely overbought levels on RSI (14) on the daily.
That should be a worry for late-to-the-party longs considering that outside the early stages of the pandemic, whenever EUR/USD has been this overbought, it’s coincided...
GBP/USD has seen a tremendous surge over the past two weeks. Cable was trading closer to 1.2700 earlier this month before rising 8 of the last 9 days (and currently working on 9 of the last 10) to hit a 13-month high at 1.3050 as of writing.
Despite the impressive short-term momentum (or perhaps because of it), GBP/USD is now reaching an overbought extreme. As...
NZD/JPY has rebounded over six big figures from its August nadir, enjoying relative calm in markets which has enabled carry trades to be reestablished. But the bullish price action is showing signs of fatigue; RSI (14) has broken its uptrend while Tuesday’s daily candle looks suspiciously like a topping patten, rejected from the intersection of horizontal...
The price of gold extends the advance from the previous week to set a fresh record high ($2532), with the recent advance in bullion pushing the Relative Strength Index (RSI) towards overbought territory.
Gold Price Outlook
The price of gold may reestablish the bullish trend from earlier this year following the break above the July high ($2484) as the 50-Day...
