Daily Technical view May 17th
EUR/USD
Euro formed an outside bar yesterday, taking out both of Tuesdays high and low, it didn’t manage to reach the 1.3630 level on the high side but it got under the 1.3523 support only to stop at the 1.3500 round number. Once again we are trading around the 1.3523/1.3550 zone and we have to wait for price to break through either side in order to have a much clearer view of things to follow. On the down side we now have yesterdays low of 1.3500 as closest support followed by May 10th/11th lows of 1.3459, if these two levels fail to hold the pair next strong support is December 3rd high of 1.3365. If the current levels the price is at hold and we get another push north first targets would be 1.3610 and May 7th high of 1.3630, if those are cleared we can expect another try at the 1.3668/80 YTD highs.
- 1.4532 – March 2005 High
- 1.3668 – December 2004 High
- 1.3630 – May 7th High
Support Levels
- 1.3523 – April 16th Low
- 1.3459 – May 10th/11th Lows
- 1.3365 – December 3rd High
- 1.3300 – January 7th High
- 1.3260 – February 27th High
GBPUSD Analysis
Cable put in a very similar day as the Euro, much due to both of the Europeans weakness against the US dollar, we are trading between the 1.9750 support and the 1.9840/50 resistance area and at the moment it looks like it could go either way. If the pair breaks bellow the 1.9750 and the upper trendline we can see on the chart, it will open up February’s 27th high of 1.9670 as a possible target followed by 1.9550 the 0.50 Fib line of the range made in the beginning months of the year. Conversely if the 1.9750 proves to be, once again, a strong support zone we can expect some sort of bounce back north in cable, if that is the case getting above the 1.9840/50 resistance should open up the 2.00 level, followed by the 2.0060/70 resistance area before the 2.0133 YTD high.
Resistance Levels
- 2.0200 – Round number
- 2.0133 – April 18th High
- 1.9840/50 – May 4th / December 1st 2006 High
Support Levels
- 1.9750/60 – retested level, May 11th low
- 1.9670 – February 27th High
- 1.9550 - .50 Fib







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