EURUSD
After starting last week with a daily tenkan-kijun cross last week, the pair formed a bullish outside bar after a one section and one day move (using ichimoku number theory) which we had talked about last week in our forex market commentary. The last time it formed a bullish outside bar on the daily charts ironically was after a one section and one day move, and formed a bounce.
Although the tenkan is down, the kijun is flat and I am expecting a modest bounce either to 1.2281 or 1.2400 before the downtrend will resume. Thus, even though the Euro has been selling off every 2 of its last 3 days for some time, I'll favor a pullback before selling at the aforementioned levels instead of taking a short on a break.
USDCAD
After trending strongly for the month of may, the loonie has been in a volatile corrective pullback for the last 45 days, selling off exactly 1 out of every 2 days. With the selling days being equal to the buying, yet losing ground, the bears are clearly in control. But I have to confess the structured nature of the pullback (being exactly even in selling/buying days) along with the channel are pointing to more retracement style pullback instead of a full blown reversal of the trend. This leads me to believe a continuation of the may uptrend is more likely.
However, analysis of the channel suggests that if it breaks down further and touches the channel bottom before hitting the channel top, then the bears could be wrestling control from the bulls and look to take out key support at 1.0051. Bulls can take longs on the channel bottom or towards the 1.0051 support level while bears can look at selling around the channel top around 1.0275 which is near the pin bar high.
AUDUSD
While many of the majors are struggling vs. the USD, the Aussie has been making some headway and is potentially staging a medium term reversal. From an ichimoku perspective, it has all the ingredients with the prior kumo break, tenkan and kijun clearing the cloud as well. Now it just needs the chikou to clear the kumo and the ichimoku picture will be strongly bullish. I wrote last week how I suspected a pullback was likely and that is how it played out. I'm interested in longs near the flat kumo around parity which may happen in the middle of this week. Bears can look to sell at last weeks high around 1.0350 which might form a chikou rejection around the senkou span A.
Oil
After forming opposite pin bars in back to back weeks, oil is offering plays for both bulls and bears on a short term basis so we are going to map out both sides. For bears, there is a nice role reversal level coming up right around $89 which was a pin bar rejection from two weeks ago so a potential intraday setup there. Bulls on the other hand have a nice intraday base to take longs with tight stops at last weeks line in the sand which is right around $83.84 as the commodity is potentially forming a HL (higher low) and thus a base for a medium term reversal so potential for bulls here as well.
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Comment by Romano on July 16, 2012 at 10:13am Hello Chris, I would like to ask: what you think about correlation of some majors? More specificly: UCAD vs EU. If EU point say upward and you expect bounce up, isnt that unsafe to long UCAD? I found they correlate too strongly even if charts may look a bit different. For example, expecting *strong* upward move of UCAD from its current weak downtrend can IMO happen only if EU goes more downward. But since we expect correction of EU up, that does not sound very likely.
What I want to ask is: how do you cope with these problems? If say UCAD suggest up and EU down, what would u do? I had this experience with USGD before. Its like UCAD but "nicer" movements. There was very high probability trade in USGD I saw in the past several times - really very nice price action. So I opened position but EU started to screw badly and it affected other pair - changed its direction. We speak 4h - daily tfs btw. Is it even worth to trade anything else than eu? To me it looks like all other pairs are at the mercy of EU, if it doesnt move opposite or at least stagnate - fine, minors paint their price action but if it move because of some news or something, it sometimes look like gambling on other pairs. UCADF, USGD, even GU, AU, AJ, GJ, heck even ESEK and GNZD u name it!
Dont you look at EU if you want to take position on the other pairs like UCAD? In your experience, did it not happen too often that nice price action on others was screwed because EU suddenly went opposite way?
Don misunderstand, I *dont like* EU anymore so much, I feel pair is too crowded and manipulated now and I hate when it affect others. Actually I am considering to switch to GU and others but this EU still is a main game changer. So I would like to hear your opinion on this and past experiences.
thnx
best regards: Romano
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