NZDUSD BEARISHLooking at the NZDUSD its been bullish for a over a year but I think the bulls are loosing power and the bears are starting to take over.
From a MONTHLY perspective...
The most recent candlestick has a SHOOTING STAR characteristic. Price attempted to break the weekly resistance at 0.7450 but failed and price came back down. Price is below the monthly resistance also at 0.7300. Today (Friday 30th September 2016) is the last day of the month so things could change but is looking unlikely. Looking back at June, July and August candlesticks - all 3 failed to break the 0.7300 monthly resistance level. July and August candles are SPINNING TOPS - hinting the bulls are starting to loose power there is indecision between the bulls are bears.
From a WEEKLY perspective...
First of all, starting at the candle of 20th of June onwards we've had 11 different weeks where price has failed to break the monthly resistance! The week starting 5th September, price has a SHOOTING STAR characteristic. The following week (12th September) we have a BEARISH ENGULFING. Following that we have a SHOOTING STAR candle, price failed to break the monthly resistance again and retesting the trend line after the breakout.
From a DAILY perspective...
Price was in an uptrend as it was making new higher highs and higher lows. Also we had an inner ascending trend line guiding the price up. We hit a new highs on the 7th September but price failed to break the weekly resistance. The following day price retested the previous days high but failed to break the resistance again, falling down - engulfing the previous days price. Price came all the way down to the 0.723 level, giving us a 3rd bounce of the trend line. Price rallied up but failed to make a new higher high - stalling around the 50% fibonacci level. Price fell from that level, breaking the inner trend line strongly. What is significant about this is price has now failed to make a new higher low and created a new lower low.
With price failing to make a new higher high at the fib level (lower high) and taking out the most recent higher low at the 3rd trend line bounce (lower low) - this gives us a strong indication that NZDUSD is now in a downtrend.
Also on the 28th of September price created a daily hanging man formation hinting further down side.
TARGET 1 IS THE WEEKLY SUPPORT AT 0.7150 (LINES UP WELL WITH MY FIB EXTENSION)
TARGET 2 (IF WE GET A BREAK OF THE SUPPORT) WOULD BE THE MONTHLY SUPPORT AT 0.7000. The second point of the ascending inner trend line lines up well with the 0.7000 target and would give us a 3rd trend line bounce of out outer ascending trend line.
Hanging Man
EURGBP - Monthly OutlookI've had a short bias on this pair for 2 weeks now, with a few successful smaller TF trades (and 1 losing trades).
As you can see, on the Monthly TF we're also showing signs of bearish pressure.
Monthly
- Hanging Man formation complete
- Dragonfly Doji almost complete with 3 days trading left this month)
- Key support turn resistance
Weekly
- Bullish channel break
- Bullish pressure has returned (showing indecision against bearish outlook or a bull trap)
Daily
- Double top
- Arguable Tweezer Tops
I'm sitting on my hands for now, but still anticipating a move down.
Let's see what the referendum brings regarding the Brexit.
Bearish candles on Weekly and Daily chartsULTA is in an obvious up trend on the weekly chart. Sort of sideways on the daily chart with an RSI making lower lows and lower highs.
But if you put a lot of stock in candle formations then you might be willing to risk some money to the downside. Bearish formation in Friday's candle on the daily (engulfing candle) within a one on the weekly (upside down hang man).
No position for me but next week I will be watching the price action. There might be a post earnings (last Thursday) move on the horizon this week. Exhaustion could get a pullback below the trendline if there is a reversal move off these recent highs.
The temporary relief of bear pressure has come to an endReading daily price action
There was a significant selloff at the end of the 3rd bullish candlestick. The bears even pushed the price lower than the previous bullish candlestick. On that same day the bulls tried to regain control, but were unable to close at the opening of that day. This resulted in a hanging man. The day after on friday the 20th of March the bulls tried to invalidate this selloff, but were eventually kicked back to 0.7225.
Reading price action with the 4H candlestick
The most recent structure (formed in the beginning of March) was broken so I was looking for a retest of structure at 0.7267. With a double bottom and the 0.618 retracement I had more reason to believe that a bearish bat at 0.7267 could actually initiate the next selloff. And so while the daily hanging man was forming, I saw a hidden bearish divergence with the RSI on the 4 hour chart.
Putting these readings into perspective
An initial test of the monthly range zone has taken place which resulted in a (temporary) relief of bear pressure (B). On the monthly chart this relief is beginning to look like a large pinbar. However, the overall trend is still bearish and we have not violated the prior daily lower high at X. The bears initiated a strong sell-off just below X which resulted in a hanging man at C. The day after on friday the bulls could not invalidate the hanging man. I turned the technical indicators off, but the RSI is not showing any sign of divergence yet and the Bollinger bands shows that the last two candlesticks had taken place at the mid of the band. I expect the bears will push the price lower to at least the most recent lows at 0.7013. But an AB=CD with an completion at the zone of 0.6669-0.6564 is also a possibility.
Long again on USD/CADBeing in a daily uptrend, USD/CAD has strongly rejected a previous support level (1.0860), and the 0.5 and 0.618 Fibonacci level in its pullback and closing on Friday 29th August 2014 above the 50ema as both an outside bar and a low test giving well-founded signs of imminent bullish continuation.
A drawback to this trade would be that the weekly chart is still in a pullback.
Entry - above Friday's close
Stop loss - ideally below Friday's close
Target - initial level at previous highs