EURUSD Forecast January 17, 2017, Technical Analysis
The EUR rallied during the day on Monday, but found enough resistance at the 50-day exponential moving average to turn around and form a less than spectacular candle.
The EUR rallied during the day on Monday, but found enough resistance at the 50-day exponential moving average to turn around and form a less than spectacular candle.
The EURUSD pair fell slightly but then turned back around to form a hammer.
The AUDUSD pair fell slightly during the session on Friday, but found enough support near the 0.74 level to bounce and test the 0.7450 level again. We found resistance there, as we have in the past, so now it looks very choppy to say the least.
Black Friday means financial markets will close earlier than usual today, but don’t despair as there is a lot to look forward to next week.
The EURUSD pair fell significantly during the day on Monday as we got word that the FBI was not going to indict Hillary Clinton due to emails.
The EURUSD pair continued to grind higher during the day on Wednesday, as fears over a switch in the expected outcome of the presidential election in the United States of course has have the US dollar falling.
In recent days we have seen the dollar’s bullish trend gain momentum against the G10 currencies. Investors appear to be expanding their bullish bets on the greenback amid rising expectations that Donald Trump’s reputation will prevent him to become the next US president.
EURUSD is forming a sideways consolidation in a range between 1.1123 and 1.1326.
Risk is on the menu at the start of this new week with stocks, crude oil and commodity currencies all climbing higher, while the dollar is easing back slightly after Friday’s rally.
The dollar staged a broad-based rally on Thursday to make back some of the losses it had suffered earlier in the week which had been on the back of a poor ISM services PMI reading and last week’s disappointing jobs report.