Littlefish FX | Sep 23, 2013 02:16AM ET
The market is still digesting the FOMC result last week, and is clearly more confused than before Bernanke’s announcement. Some commentators are pinning their hopes on "Octaper" while others, still licking their wounds from last weeks shock, are now firmly in the belief that a taper will be pushed to next year at the earliest. Suffice to say, taper forward guidance over this long a time-scale is turning out to cause more problems that in solves in terms of market stability. Angela Merkel looks set to be re-elected in Germany, which brings some welcome stability during these unstable times. Fundamentally, we can expect an easier ride this week with the following data points in focus:
Monday Sep 23
2:45am CNY HSBC Flash Manufacturing PMI
8:00am EUR French Flash Manufacturing PMI
8:30am EUR German Flash Manufacturing PMI
2:00pm EUR ECB President Draghi Speaks
4:15pm CHF SNB Chairman Jordan Speaks
Tuesday Sep 24
9:00am EUR German Ifo Business Climate
1:30pm CAD Core Retail Sales
3:00pm USD CB Consumer Confidence
11:45pm NZD Trade Balance
Wednesday Sep 25
1:30pm USD Core Durable Goods Orders
3:00pm USD New Home Sales
Thursday Sep 26
9:30am GBP Current Account
1:30pm USD Unemployment Claims
3:00pm USD Pending Home Sales
Friday Sep 27
10:00am EUR ECB President Draghi Speaks
All times are London Time (GMT+1)
USD% Index
We have retraced up to a long-standing bearish channel resistance and slightly pushed through before the weekend. The RSI is still reading quite oversold which indicates that we may see a further retracement before we return to bearish trend. My preference is to begin selling dollars with reasonably short stops once we get to the broken support turned resistance shown at EUR/USD 1.3465, and coincides with a steeper bearish trend line. A failure to turn around here would open the door for a decent rally higher to close the gap from last week’s open, with the Blue channel resistance being the next point of entry for dollar selling I am bearish USD following the completion of a retracement
USD% Index Resistance (EUR/USD support): EUR/USD 1.3521, 1.3469, 1.3400, 1.3350
USD% Index Support (EUR/USD support): EUR/USD 1.3560, 1.3685, 1.3759
EUR% Index
EUR% Index Resistance: EUR/USD 1.3584, 1.3663
EUR% Index Support: EUR/USD 1.3500, 1.3450
JPY% Index
Trend for the JPY% index continues to be quite erratic with a slight lean towards bearishness as a result of the Major bearish trend line that was rejected from on Wednesday night. The index remains range-bound currently until the index can push through to the upside through the major bearish trend line or make a new low I am neutral JPY%
JPY% Index Resistance (USD/JPY Support): USD/JPY 98.83, 98.50, 97.76
JPY% Index Support (USD/JPY Resistance): USD/JPY 99.68, 100.00, 100.30
GBP% Index
I am bearish GBP
GBP% Index Resistance: GBPUSD 1.6029, 1.6214, 1.6280
GBP% Index Support: GBPUSD 1.5967, 1.5874
AUD% Index
I am short term bullish AUD
AUD% Index Resistance: AUD/USD 0.9530, 0.9572
AUD% Index Support: AUD/USD 0.9373, 0.9351, 0.9250
CHF% Index
I am bearish CHF
CHF% Index Resistance (USD/CHF support): USD/CHF 0.9079, 0.9000
CHF% Index Support (USD/CHF resistance): USD/CHF 0.9150, 0.9200
CAD% Index
I am bearish CAD
CAD% Index Resistance (USDAD support): USD/CAD 1.0250, 1.0200,
CAD% Index Support (USDCAD resistance): USD/CAD 1.0571
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