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EURUSD : Eurozone Crisis vs Trump Crisis When Exchange Rate Mechanism system failed to stabilize national currency exchange rates within Europe, it led to the proposal of the adoption of a single European currency in 1995.And on January 1st, 1999 , 42 years after Europe's foundation, Euro was adopted as single currency by 11 member states.
Today, Euro along with the US dollar is the world's most traded currencies, representing two largest economic trading blocs. The currency pair EURUSD, initially was not very volatile, however, things changed after US Subprime crisis. Euro traded at 1.52 against the Dollar in 2008 before Global Financial Crisis. Although the effect of a crisis in America would have had opposite effect on the valuation of Euro, it was just the opposite. From 1.52 against the Greenback, Euro started to fall. The reason was that another crisis was unfolding on the continent of Europe -the European debt crisis. The European Debt Crisis is a multi-year debt crisis which is in place since GFC and it's yet to find a long-term resolution. Many European member states held massive sovereign debt, A default would have had a domino effect, jeopardizing the future of European Union. Uncontrolled sovereign debt defaults could create a recession or even a global depression. The European Central Bank (ECB), the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and other member stats assisted countries like Greece, Ireland, Spain, Portugal and Cyprus to repay or refinance their government debt or to bail out over-indebted banks under their national supervision. Alan Greenspan - former Fed Governor - always said the Eurozone was doomed to fail because the effect of divergent cultures in the bloc has been grossly underestimated.
After Trump being elected, the focus has now shifted back to America. I call it the Trump Crisis. The dollar soared preceding presidency of Donald Trump on the prospect that lower taxes, fiscal stimulus, and deregulation would boost the U.S. economy. But that scenario changed after the election, and the dollar index is now down 11.58% from its post-election high. Trump has gotten himself into, what's called as " currency wars " with Germany. Germany is the backbone of European Union, playing a pivotal role in policy making along with European central bank. The currency war is a dirty game at the higher most level of governance, where each one is trying to sell themselves as cheap. This currency tinkering is a quick-fix for underlying economic weakness. U.S. government debt is about 100% of GDP or $20trillion approx., and growing around $1 trillion a year. Forget what they say when they talk about budget deficits, They lie because they don’t want to admit what the true deficit is. When the next recession blows in, it will likely balloon the U.S. government deficit up to $2 trillion a year. The Obama administration took eight years to run up a $10 trillion debt after the 2008 recession. It might take Trump administration just half the time to add another $10 trillion, if Congress fails to pay its EMI this October.
Coming from the analytical point of view on EURUSD, a long-term low has already taken place. That means a long-term high of USD has also taken place, considering the weight of Euro in Dollar Index. I see Euro making higher highs against the dollar for years to come - Dollar is doomed. In the medium term, i am expecting high in EURUSD around the first week of October at the level of 1.2150 - 1.2250. From there onwards, I am expecting EURUSD to trade down till the first week of November.
As always, we will update when changing dynamics necessitates so.
LONG SET UP IN AUDUSD - 4H CHARTHey Traders!
Looking for a long term buy, we have to analyze the ongoing corrective structure in order to plan the trade. Will be posting updates!
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Hola Traders!
Buscando un largo plazo de compra, tenemos que analizar la actual estructura de corrección para planear el trade. Pondré actualizaciones!
Carlos
Expecting one more impulsive intermediate wave downThere is still a large bigger downtrend on this pair's longer timeframes. I am expecting one more impulsive leg down to form a wave 5 in the wave pattern I currently see on this daily chart.
Price is as well currently inside a descending triangle, which increases the chance for a break down today or tomorrow since we are very close to it's apex.
If price would alternatively break up from the descending triangle, I am still short until at least the weekly dotted downward sloping (dark pink) trendline is broken.
The swaps on this pair is currently positive for selling, which favors holding shorts.
EUR/USD - Needs a daily close below 1.0527A daily close below 1.0527 (61.8% fib) would add credence to the falling top formation and open doors for a potential break below 1.045 and drop to 1.0341 (Jan 3 low) levels.
On the higher side, only a move back above 1.0552 would abort bearish view, although turn around would be confirmed only above 1.0642 levels.
EUR/USD daily outlookDaily RSI – bearish at 46.00
Daily DMI – Bearish
Monday’s daily close was below 50-DMA
Corrective move towards 1.0640-1.07 is likely to be short lived. A short-term sideways action appears likely.
On the downside, another daily close below 50-DMA would open doors for a sell-off to 1.05 levels
GBP/USD – Sellers in controlPair’s retreat from 1.3121 (Thursday’s high) followed by a sharp sell-off on Friday to a low of 1.2915 strongly indicates the down trend from 1.3445 (Sep 6 high) remains intact and could be extended further to 1.2865 (Aug 15 low) if the up move seen in Asia runs out of steam and is followed by a break below Asian session low of 1.2954.
On the higher side, only a daily close above 1.3121 (Sep 22 high) could signal bearish invalidation.
waiting for a wave C to reveal on daily chartWe seem to be in a ranged correction zone on the daily chart since Feb16. Nomatter how you count waves, we have an diagonal 5 wave upwards move that has been broken and made one correction (wave A), and I think we as long as the dotted upper blue line holds, we are in for a corrective wave C to unfold in a zig-zag corrective pattern.
small correction NFP tomorrow so volatility will be high, but looking at this structure it looks ready to drop, and follow negative trend which started early May16.
Looking at this chart, it feel almost certain that we can expect a downwards movement sooner or later, on par with fundamentals telling us that FEDs sooner or later will have to increase the rent. So my advice for fellow traders will be to look for tops to sell on, starting from today. I This chart above show one obvious top already at strong fib resistances. If NFP numbers not strong tomorrow I will sell on new tops as well.