7/22 Forex

• U.S. dollar moves to bear phase against the Canadian dollar, Mexican peso.
• The euro and pound against the U.S. dollar, and the euro against the Japanese yen continue in bear phase for a second day, but price rises erase yesterday's losses.

	pps	pps open	upper pivot	lower pivot
EUR/USD US$1.2916		US$1.2879 jul21	US$1.2510	US$1.1602
USD/JPY¥87.17		¥88.30 jul15	¥91.49	¥85.29
GBP/USD US$1.5276		US$1.5262 jul21	US$1.5266	US$1.4021
EUR/JPY ¥112.55		¥112.69 jul21	¥112.46	¥103.05
USD/CAD C$1.0395		C$1.0488 jul22	C$1.1024	C$1.0291
USD/MXN Mex$12.7560		Mex$12.8693 jul22	Mex$13.4288	Mex$12.5516

The USD/CAD pair spent four days in bull phase before today' reversal, for a price rise of 1%. However, the initial bull signal was accompanied by such a powerful rise that it is unlikely that traders were able to get in at the benchmark opening price.

The USD/MXN pair, newly added to my daily coverage, also spent four days in bull phase, rising 0.8%. The powerful push upon enter bull phase makes a profitable trade unlikely in practice.

Both USD/CAD and USD/MXN have low and declining average directional indexes, a good recipe for signal whipsaws.

The analysis uses the daily Person's Proprietary Signal, developed by John Person, and the monthly Person's Pivot, which he also developed.

These are black box signals -- the "proprietary" means that Mr. Person knows how they work under the hood, and I don't. But they have shown a fair degree of success in identifying good entry and exit points, and I find them useful.

On the glance, "pps open" means the price at the start of trading in the United States on the day the signal appeared.

Disclaimer

Tim Bovee, Private Trader tracks the trades of a private trader for his own accounts. Nothing in this blog constitutes a recommendation to buy or sell stocks, options or any other financial instrument. The only purpose of this blog is to provide education and entertainment.


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