Today’s Notable Sentiment ShiftsUSD – The dollar edged lower against a basket of currencies on Tuesday as investors awaited the outcome of this week’s two-day Federal Reserve policy meeting for any signals as to when the central bank will begin tapering its asset purchases.
High-Beta – The high –beta currencies (AUD, CAD, NZD) weakened as a sharp drop in China’s equity market weighed on sentiment and a record low for U.S. bond yields after adjusting for inflation, signaled worries about the overall economic outlook.
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Today’s Notable Sentiment ShiftsUSD – The dollar edged lower on Monday as investors began positioning themselves ahead of this week’s Federal Reserve policy meeting, with many analysts expecting the Fed to once again defer from a commitment to taper.
GBP – Sterling climbed above $1.38 against a broadly weaker dollar on Monday, supported by encouraging data over the weekend showing a fall in COVID-19 cases in Britain.
Antipodeans – The Australian dollar slipped on Monday, knocking its kiwi counterpart lower, as the country’s largest cities remained under strict lockdowns amid rising cases of the highly contagious COVID-19 Delta variant.
COT CURRENCY REPORTAUD, NZD & CAD:
Yet another 13K unwind of net long positions for the CAD in the CFTC data updated until the 20th of July means that a lot of the froth in positioning has been taken care of. Our concerns about positioning for the past few weeks meant a patient stance with CAD longs, but with the size of the unwind we think CAD longs look attractive again on a relative basis.
As for the NZD, the currency still looks very ‘cheap’ at the current levels given that the RBNZ is the first major central bank that stopped QE. Apart from that, expectations for rates to go higher in the next three weeks should also provide a favourable environment for the NZD. We like NZD longs versus the Dollar going into this week’s FOMC.
We remain patient on AUD with the virus escalation. The challenge for Australia when compared to places like the UK and US is that the vaccination roll out is miles behind. So, if the same type of spike in cases occur it could create a lot of economic pain as we head deeper into Q3. On the radar this week will be employment data, and if that comes in much softer than expected our preferred way to express AUD weakness would be with AUDNZD and AUDCAD downside.
JPY, CHF & USD:
The JPY positioning remains stretched to the downside, and the fast and punchy recovery in equity markets didn’t do the JPY any favours either. However, the inverse correlation with US10Y could still see JPY pressured.
We’ve seen a lot of downside in US10Y over the past few weeks, beyond what majority of market participants (us included) were anticipating. The downside in yields meant one less negative driver for the JPY. But as a ton of the stretched positioning in treasury shorts have arguably been flushed out, we could see yields regain some upside momentum again.
For the USD, this week we are turning slightly more cautious on the Dollar. Yes, the USD had good reason to see the upside it enjoyed over the past few weeks. But as the markets are looking for a slightly more cautious sounding Fed this week (due to the Delta variant), and since short-term the price action is looking a bit stretched, there could be some downside for the USD going into the FOMC.
GBP:
The GBP put in a decent recovery from the lows this week. Monday saw some downside as participants were disappointing when the most dovish member of the BoE said some dovish things. Hardly the type of reaction one would expect, but after the comments from Saunders the week before there was some hope that the overly dovish Haskel might do the same.
However, despite the Monday sell off we saw Sterling put in a solid recovery, despite ongoing tensions between the UK and EU regarding the Northern Ireland Protocol. At the current levels, especially with positioning back into net short, one has to argue that GBP is looking attractive from a value perspective.
As the markets are expecting a cautious sounding Fed this week, one of the ways we would like to express potential USD weakness in the week ahead is against the GBP. Obviously, we’ll need to keep close track of any major negative escalations on the political front.
EUR:
The EUR has seen a sizable push lower ever since we had the less dovish than expected June FOMC meeting. After that, the Dollar has enjoyed further upside from various drivers which has kept the EUR pressured, and the ECB’s continued dovish tone sure hasn’t helped.
We have been very patient in chasing the EURUSD lower after finding the support around 1.1780 – 1.1850 as a very tough nut to crack. Even though we maintain a fundamental bearish outlook on the EUR and the EURUSD one has to argue that the downside looks a tad stretched.
Positioning seems to agree with this as we’ve seen a whopping 72000 reduction in net long positioning in the past 5 weeks (that’s a lot). Yes, the overall net long positioning still looks way too high for the fundamental outlook, but timing doesn’t favour chasing the EUR lower from here.
At the current levels the risk-to-reward does look attractive for a possible short-term mean reversion opportunity to the upside for EURUSD going into the FOMC, that is barring any possible risk off environments which should be supportive for the USD.
*This report reflects the COT data updated until 20 July 2021.
Wait for break key level for the pattern to complete with AUDCADH4 time frame.
Structure: Downtrend with Simple Flat.
Pattern: Simple Flat reject resistance at 0.94000.
Key level at 0.93000. Wait for break key level for the pattern to complete.
Then wait for set up to sell.
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💡Don't miss the great sell opportunity in AUDCAD". There is still a possibility of temporary retracement to the suggested resistance line (0.9305).
if so, traders can set orders based on Price Action and expect to reach short-term targets."
Technical analysis:
. AUDCAD is in a downtrend, and the continuation of the downtrend is expected.
. The price is below the 21-Day WEMA, which acts as a dynamic resistance.
. The RSI is at 26.
Take Profits:
TP1= @ 0.9261
TP2= @ 0.9247
TP3= @ 0.9234
TP4= @ 0.9215
TP5= @ 0.9194
SL: Break Above R2
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💡Don't miss the great sell opportunity in AUDCAD". There is still a possibility of temporary retracement to the suggested resistance line (0.9305).
if so, traders can set orders based on Price Action and expect to reach short-term targets."
Technical analysis:
. AUDCAD is in a downtrend, and the continuation of the downtrend is expected.
. The price is below the 21-Day WEMA, which acts as a dynamic resistance.
. The RSI is at 25.
Take Profits:
TP1= @ 0.9261
TP2= @ 0.9247
TP3= @ 0.9234
TP4= @ 0.9215
TP5= @ 0.9194
SL: Break Above R2
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AUDCAD ANALYSISStrong bullish wave (a) ended at level 0.9375 after breaking downtrendline
then corrective bearish wave (b) rejected from 61.8% Fibonacci level at 0.9298 with bullish movement
Price is based above HVN at level 0.9335 which indicates that pair is in accumulation phase
Above SMA 100
MACD shows weakness in bearish momentum
RSI broke downtrendline
It's expected forming bullish wave (c) to target level 0.9420
💡Don't miss the great buy opportunity in AUDCADTrading suggestion:
". There is a possibility of temporary retracement to the suggested support line (0.93150).
. if so, traders can set orders based on Price Action and expect to reach short-term targets."
Technical analysis:
. AUDCAD is in a range bound, and the beginning of an uptrend is expected.
. The price is above the 21-Day WEMA, which acts as a dynamic support.
. The RSI is at 51
Take Profits:
TP1= @ 0.93470
TP2= @ 0.93765
TP3= @ 0.93937
TP4= @ 0.94095
TP5= @ 0.94306
SL= Break below S2
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