On the technical side the price on the fiber chart has found resistance on the upper band of the Bollinger bands last Tuesday and has since corrected to the downside. The Bollinger bands are contracting at the time of this report but volatility could pick up later in the week around publication hours of the…
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ATH Likely to be Challenged Technically, limited resistance is evident on the weekly timeframe, following the breach of resistance from $1,988. This paves the way for a run at the ATH of $2,070. You may recall that I highlighted the daily timeframe’s price action in the Weekly Market Briefing, paying specific attention to a clear-cut…
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Dollar-loonie is likely to be highly active later this week because of the respective countries’ job reports on Thursday and Friday. Since the NFP has consistently been higher than expected in 2023 so far, it wouldn’t be very surprising to see a stronger result on Friday with a kneejerk higher for USDCAD. That could provide…
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Economic Data for the Week Ahead: Monday 3 April US ISM Manufacturing PMI for March at 3:00 pm GMT+1 Markets welcome the latest manufacturing PMI data from the US, expected to marginally tick lower to 47.1 in March from February’s 47.7 figure. However, the forecast range resides between 48.0 and 44.4. Tuesday 4 April Reserve…
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On the technical side the price on the fiber chart has found resistance on the upper band of the Bollinger bands last Thursday “forcing” it to correct around the $1.07600 area which is trading at the time of this report. The Bollinger bands are expanding indicating volatility build up which is expected to peak for…
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On the technical side the price of Crude oil on the daily chart is “walking the band” ( touching the Bollinger bands in consecutive sessions) indicating great push by the bears in high volumes. It is trading at a 15 month low with no signals of correcting to the upside just yet while the 50…
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Interestingly, we see a comparable picture on the CAC 40—the benchmark stock index from France—and the EU50, which is the Euro Stoxx 50 that houses the largest companies in Europe. The two charts are shown below. You will see that the CAC 40 displays a daily Quasimodo resistance-turned-support at 6,791 that is joined by RSI…
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On the technical side the end of the bearish symmetrical triangle is in sight without any clear signal yet as to where the price will head. The Stochastic oscillator is not showing any overbought or oversold levels while the cross of the 50 day moving average above the 100 day moving average gives some indications…
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On the technical side the price has recently broken above the resistances of the 38.2% of the daily Fibonacci retracement level, the 50 and 100 moving averages as well as the bearish symmetrical triangle formation that was in effect since mid November 2022. This major correction to the upside was somewhat “paused” (at the time…
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Background The 24HR Trading platform provided trading signals to clients, promising significant profits if they followed the instructions sent via WhatsApp and other messengers, involving CFDs contracts on currencies and commodities. However, the platform did not hold the necessary regulatory license, and the FCA issued a warning against it in September 2019. The regulator froze…
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