10/18 Forex

• U.S. dollar shows bull phase against its Candadian counterpart (USD/CAD).

	pps	pps open	upper pivot	lower pivot
EUR/USD US$1.39		US$1.27 oct13	US$1.40	US$1.30
AUD/USD US$0.99		US$0.89 aug27	US$1.00	US$0.91
USD/CAD C$1.02		C$1.01 oct18	C$1.06	C$1.02
USD/JPY¥81		¥85.08 sep22	¥85	¥82
GBP/CHF C$1.52		C$1.56 sep21	C$1.58	C$1.52
GBP/USD US$1.59		US$1.59 oct14	US$1.60	US$1.54
EUR/JPY ¥113		¥107.82 sep14	¥117	¥108
AUD/JPY ¥80		¥81 oct15	¥83	¥77
USD/CHFSF0.96		SF1.00 sep21	SF1.02	SF0.96
NZD/USD US$0.75		US$0.73 sep	US$0.75	US$0.72
USD/MXN M$12.43		M$13.07 sep2	M$13.06	M$12.28

The USD/CAD bull phase was accompanied by an open above the lower monthly pivot level on the Person's chart. However, after rising 1.1% intraday, the price retraced about half of the rise, and I would not be surprised if the bull signal ghosts away later in the day.

The preceding bear phase lasted 11 U.S. market days and produced a price decline of 0.7% USD/CAD in recent months has tended to show longish bear phases with the occasional whipsaw to the bull side.

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.

I also refer to the Heikin-Ashia trend or candlestick. The Heikin-Ashi averages six days for high, low, open and close, signalling uptrend if the close is in the upper half of the range and downtrend if it is in the lower half. The signal for opening and closing positions require confirmation through a turn in the 8-day exponential moving average.

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