The bulls have been in control of DXY during most of 2018 and gradually conquered more land in the first months of 2019, as well. The USD index recovered from its February 2018 low of 88.25 to as high as 98.33 last month. The bulls can really be proud with the total gain of over…
USDCNH Before and After Trump’s Tariff Threat
The negotiations between the two biggest economies are not going as well as investors hoped. Stock market indices are down across the board following President Trump’s new China tariff threat. Another side-effect was the sharp rally to over 6.82 in USDCNH. And while Trump’s tweet about China did, indeed, trigger the surge, the actual reason…
USDJPY: Analyze, Prepare, then Let the Market Decide
USDJPY reached its higher level so far in 2019 yesterday. The pair climbed to 112.166, extending its recovery from the 109.71 bottom formed last month. But the bulls didn’t always look that confident. Just a week ago, the pair was hovering around 111.15, down from 111.83 five days earlier. Instead of forming an opinion based…
USDJPY Proves You Don’t Need to Pick Tops/Bottoms
USDJPY closed at 111.72 last week and is now within striking distance of its 2019 high of 112.14. But just two weeks ago, the pair was down to less than 110.00 after a sharp selloff from 111.70. Instead of joining the bears simply because the price was falling, we looked for an Elliott Wave pattern…
USDCNH Elliott Wave Pattern Points to Recovery
Less than five months ago, on November 1st 2018, the U.S. dollar climbed to 6.9806 against the Chinese yuan, following a sharp rally from as low as 6.2359 in March. Unfortunately for bulls, USDCNH couldn’t maintain the positive momentum. As of this writing, it is hovering around 6.7200. In order to find out if the…
NZDUSD Bulls Choosing a Path to 0.7000
Less than three months ago, on January 7th, we published an analysis of NZDUSD. It was trading near 0.6750 at the time, following a sharp decline from 0.6970. However, instead of simply extrapolating the selloff into the future, we examined the chart below through an Elliott Wave perspective. And it gave us a few reasons…
USDJPY: How to Buy and Hold a Forex Pair
USDJPY has been in recovery mode since the “flash crash” on January 3rd. The pair plunged to as low as 104.82 that day, but the bears couldn’t maintain their momentum. The market reached 112.14 on March 5th for a rally of over 730 pips. Of course, picking up all of it would have been pure…
USDCAD Bears Paying the Price for Failing at 1.3069
A week ago, USDCAD was barely holding above 1.3100. The pair was still in the doldrums following a steep decline from its late-December high of 1.3665 and it appeared the bears had no intention of leaving. But in order to confirm their ambitions to drag USDCAD even lower, they first had to deal with the…
EURUSD Reversal Needed “Breathing Space”
EURUSD plunged below 1.1260 earlier today. The pair has been steadily declining during the last twelve months and the latest drop suggests a new low is very likely to be reached soon. But it wasn’t all that clear two weeks ago, when the Euro was hovering around 1.1400 against the U.S. dollar. Then the Elliott…
A Month Ahead of USDCAD ‘s Bullish Reversal
USDCAD finished 2018 in a positive mood. The pair reached 1.3665 on the last day of last year, but 2019 has not been so generous to the bulls so far. By February 1st, the rate was down to 1.3069, losing over 4.3% in just a month. But let’s take a step back and see where…
EURNZD: Is February Going to Mimic December?
It was November 30th, 2018, when we last talked about EURNZD. The pair was trading near 1.6570, following a sharp selloff from as high as 1.7929 in less than two months. After such a huge and fast decline, traders were understandably very pessimistic about the pair’s prospects going into December. However, extrapolation is a dangerous…
GBPNZD: Reversal in Place, Negative Outlook Intact
Less than two weeks ago, GBPNZD was hovering near 1.9160, following a recovery from as low as 1.8127. After a 10-figure rally in just a month and a half, the bulls were getting more and more confident in their ability to keep pushing the pair higher. Unfortunately for them, the market was already sending a…
GBPNZD: A Bearish Elliott Wave Cycle is Worrisome
Three weeks ago, GBPNZD was hovering around 1.8900, but the Elliott Wave principle suggested the recovery from 1.8125 was “far from over.” A three-wave pullback was supposed to occur, followed by another rally towards the resistance area between 1.9250 – 1.9630. The chart below, published on January 2nd, explains. The recovery from 1.8125 looked like…
NZDUSD Fibonacci Bounce Causes Optimism
At the start of December, 2018, NZDUSD almost reached 0.6970. A month later, the “flash crash” which brought chaos to many other Forex pairs, dragged the New Zealand dollar to 0.6586 on January 2nd, 2019. As of this writing, NZDUSD is hovering around 0.6760 and the bulls are probably wondering whether this is a chance…
GBPNZD ‘s Elliott Wave Recovery Far from Over
A month ago we shared our view that despite being long-term bearish on GBPNZD, we thought it was time for a notable recovery. While the pair was hovering around 1.8400, the market was sending a message that a recovery to roughly 1.9000 was around the corner. As always, this message had nothing to do with…
