Wednesday, December 7, 2011

12/7 Forex

Notes on this morning’s forex...

On the weekly charts...

USD/CAD pierced the floor of rising price channel that has been in effect since late July. The price immediately withdrew back into the channel. The relative strength index is at 43% and has been falling sharply since late November.

Weekly Channels

pair chan from
AUD/CAD   Oct. 28
AUD/JPY   April 11
AUD/NZD   March 7
AUD/USD   Aug. 1
EUR/AUD   Dec 15, 2010
EUR/CAD   May 2
EUR/CHF   Aug. 8
EUR/GBP   June 27
EUR/JPY  
EUR/USD   May 2
GBP/AUD   March 14
GBP/CAD   July 12, 2010
GBP/JPY   Aug. 3, 2009
GBP/USD   April 25
NZD/USD   Oct. 28
USD/CAD   July 25, 2011
USD/JPY   June 1, 2009
Green means uptrending channel; red means downtrending channel; yellow is a sideways move.

Notes:

NZD/USD is in a complex move: A downtrending channel from Aug. 1 within an uptrending channel that began May 11, 2009 or earlier. For this ongoing study, I’ll track the more recent trend in the table above and note changes in the longer uptrending channel here in the notes.

I’ve excluded high-volume pairs including CHF because of the Swiss government’s active intervention in the markets to keep the currency from rising. I’ll pick the CHF pairs up again if the policy changes.

I’ve retained the JPY pairs as Japan’s interventions appear to be less consistent than those of the Swiss.

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