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Weekly Technical Analysis Report 18 August – GBPUSD played out nicely, bearish play seen on USDCAD

Weekly Technical Analysis Report 18 August – GBPUSD played out nicely, bearish play seen on USDCAD

1. Last week’s outlook on GBPUSD: Bearish play seen

On the H4 time frame, prices are facing bearish pressure from its resistance zone at 1.2280 in line with the 78.6% Fibonacci retracement and a pullback to this zone presents an opportunity to play a further drop to the next support target at 1.2030. This support target lines up with the 50% Fibonacci retracement. Stochastic is facing bearish pressure from its resistance at 94.92 as well, in line with our bearish bias.

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Coloured candles represent our projection

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2. This week’s outlook on USDCAD: Bearish play seen

On the H4 time frame, prices are testing a key resistance area at 1.2940 in line with the 23.6% Fibonacci extension as well as the 50% Fibonacci retracement. We could see further downside in prices, with 1.2320 as our support target, which coincides with the 100% Fibonacci retracement . Ichimoku cloud is also showing signs of bearish momentum, in line with our bearish bias.


Bullish outlook on USDCAD: 18 August 2022 by Salzworth on TradingView.com

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