Posts tagged 'GBP'

Updated 29th October.Contrary to the bullish signals generated 2 weeks ago, investor demand for GBPCAD could not be maintained. Instead selling interest was renewed  with last week's decline being the most negative GBPCAD performance since April. This is enough to reassert a Bearish bias with initial targets of 1.6574 and 1.6467.Last week saw solid gains in... read more

Our medium term outlook for GBPCAD has been bullish since the middle of September when the spot and RSI both traded above their relevant Moving Averages.The resulting upside in GBPCAD of 8 big figures was capped by the top of the weekly Ichimoku Cloud pattern, where profit taking developed.  Peaking in December, the bulk of the holiday... read more

Our Quarterly USDCAD view is a bullish one and is currently being driven by a weaker CAD across the board. That is reflected in positive moves last week in EURCAD and GBPCAD that confirmed a medium term bullish tone for these crosses.In EURCAD the spot price has been flirting with the 21 week displaced moving average... read more

Last week's gains in GBPCAD were more modest than the previous week's upside but they were enough to confirm a change in investor sentiment to bullish.This is because this improvement took GBPCAD above the 21 week moving average for the first time in 3 months. Importantly that break confirmed a similar 'golden' cross of our RSI... read more

GBPNZD is testing a key weekly level. The 21 week displaced moving average has a history being an excellent medium term trend indicator and the spot price is, currently, trading back above. This is backed up by a similar, potential, 'golden' cross in our RSI indicator.GBPNZD gained more than 21 big figures from January's low but... read more

Is the current bullish bias for GBPCAD to prove short-lived? This week's price action is suggesting that although a weekly close below 1.7024 is needed as confirmation.2016 was dominated by a bearish trend that took GBPCAD nearly 25% lower. A double bottom above 1.5700 (October & January) led to a profit taking correction that was strong... read more

After posting a higher low in March and then trading through key moving averages in both spot and RSI, our bias for GBPSEK, as shown in the Trend  Table, turned to bullish.Last week's solid move confirmed that new trend and demand has accelerated this week with the general improvement in investor sentiment towards sterling. Importantly though this... read more

Update - Monday 27th MarchAs mentioned last week the key level for this currency pair is/was the 21 week moving average and last week's demand has taken GBPCAD above that point. This confirms the positive cross already made in the RSI indicator with targets as below. I wrote last month about how there were warning signs for... read more

A negative trend has dominated GBPCAD for more than a year. A bearish move below the 21 week moving average in January 2016 confirmed an earlier breach of the RSI moving average and that tone has been threatened occasionally, by moves back to the moving average, but unbroken since.In fact, GBPCAD fell by 22% to October's... read more

Have you ever wondered which currencies receive the most trading action? The data for the following chart comes from a survey done every three years by the Bank of International Settlements (BIS).Note that trading volume adds up to 200%, because each currency trade has a pairing.Chart courtesy of: DatashownThe Chinese yuan is now the 8th most... read more