Technical Analysis

The major US indices are closing with mixed results. The Dow industrial average was the biggest winner with a gain of 0.71%. The NASDAQ index fell and the S&P index rose by equal 0.19% amounts. Home Depot and Walmart announced earnings before the opening and they both rose sharply. Home Depot is closing up $12.95

As the North American session begins, the USD is the strongest and JPY the is the weakest. Energy remains a big worry and problem in Europe. Drought and the Ukraine war continue to push energy costs higher there. The Rhine River moving to critical threshold levels for ships is preventing barges of coal and other

The major stock indices are closing higher on the day with the Nasdaq leading the way. The major indices are off to a positive start for the week after 4 straight weeks of gains 9 or 11 sectors in the S&P moved higher with Energy (-1.9%) and materials (-0.1%) the only sectors to decline. Crude

As the North American session begins, the JPY and the USD are the strongest of the major currencies and teh NZD and the AUD are the weakest. Risk off sentiment is force as the markets react to CHina slowdown last month. A string of data over the weekend (retail sales, industrial production, house prices) came

The USDCAD has to a new session high and in the process is retesting its broken at 100 day moving average near 1.27968. The high price just reached 1.27986, just above the moving average level Recall on Wednesday, the price fell below that moving average and stayed below since that break. However the lows for

The EURUSD is trading to a new session low at 1.02515. That takes the price further away from the broken 100 hour moving average 1.02622. The price is also falling below a swing area between 1.0254 and 1.0257. Earlier today, the price fell back below the swing hi from August 2 at 1.02934, and the

Today’s daily candle, while closing only in apx 4 hours, is now showing a sign that bulls are failing to break the presented channel to the upside, following this 4th attempt to do so, on the daily timeframe. Even if we had a coin flip (50% chance to win, 50% chance to lose) for this

The EURGBP used the 100 day MA as a ceiling on Wednesday and Thursday. On the downside, the 200 day MA and 100 hour MA was broken on Wednesday and tried to stay below into trading yesterday. However, after breaking back above, resistance became support again. The price moved up to test the 100 day

The USDJPY continued it’s move higher today after reaching a low of 132.419 yesterday. That move took the price below a swing area between 132.24 and 132.479. However, when the price move back above the swing area during the US session yesterday, sellers turned buyers and that momentum has continued into today. In the morning

A day ago, the EURGBP was ping ponging between the 100 day MA above (near 0.8468), and the 200 day and 100 hour MA below near 0.8438. In the afternoon session, the pair cracked below the lower extreme reaching a low of 0.84176 on the follow through selling. The pair bottomed and returned back to

The EURUSD continues to leak oil and wander to the downside. The pair is trading at its lowest level in the US session. Stocks are trading to new session lows. The S&P is moving back toward unchanged. The NASDAQ index is down -53 points at -0.42% at 12800.99. Yields are also higher with the 30

The EURUSD rallied strongly after the tamer CPI data, and ran up to a key resistance swing area between 1.03395 and 1.03657. The high price reached 1.0367 and backed off. The move to the downside has now moved down to retest a key break level from this morning. That break was the high price from

The NASDAQ index traded above the Monday high of 12855.15. The high price just reached 12860.30 but has backed off to 12847 currently. The index is still up 353.63 points or 2.83% on the day. The next target area on further upside momentum comes in at 13086 to 13199. The 50% of the move down

It took a while, but the USDCAD is making a break for it to the upside. The pair tested the 100 hour MA in the Asian and London morning session. Then tried to move higher in the NA session. The first few tries saw some up and down apprehension. The last two hourly bars have

The USD is seeing a tick to the upside as the NY session moves toward the close. Tomorrow the traders will be dealing with the CPI data at 8:30 AM where the MoM is expected to rise by 0.2% and the YoY to dip to 8.7% from 9.1%. The Core however, is expected to rise

The US 10 year yield moved up to test the 100 day MA on Wednesday and again on Friday last week (blue line in the chart above). Today the high yield of 2.851% also sniffed the MA level at 2.862%. Staying below the moving average keeps the lid on the rates. It would take a

In the morning video report, the USDCHF was trading between the 100 and 200 hour MAs (blue and green lines – see VIDEO here). The USD moved lower and so did the USDCHF. That took the price below the lower 200 hour MA and that momentum fell below a swing area near 0.9533 to 0.9537.

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