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GBP/USD consolidating gains, can shoot much higher

The  GBP/USD  jumped to higher ground after Barnier said that reaching a Brexit agreement is realistic within six to eight weeks. Can it continue to higher ground?

The  Technical Confluences Indicator  shows that the pair is currently mired in a dense area of technical levels. The  1.3035-1.3048   area  is the congestion of last week’s high, the Simple Moving Average 50-15m, the SMA 10-one-hour, the Bolinger Band 15m-Middle, the Pivot Point one-week Resistance 1, the BB 4h-Upper, the SMA 10-15m, the SMA 5-15m, the 4h-high, the BB 15m-Upper, and last month’s high.

Overcoming this zone opens the door to surging all the way to  1.3163  which is the meeting point of the Pivot Point one-day Resistance 2 and the PP one-week Resistance 2.

Significant support is at  1.2995  which is the confluence of the Fibonacci 38.2% one-day and the Simple Moving Average 100-15m.

There are quite a few additional levels of support to the downside with the most substantial point at  1.2940  which is the convergence of the SMA 100-one-hour, the Fibonacci 38.2% one-week, and the SMA 10-one-day.

This is how it looks on the tool:

GBP USD confluence levels September 11 2018

Confluence Detector

The Confluence Detector finds  exciting opportunities using Technical Confluences.  The TC is a tool to locate and point out those price levels where there is a  congestion of indicators,  moving averages,  Fibonacci levels, Pivot Points, etc. Knowing where these congestion points are located is very useful for the trader, and can be used as a basis for different strategies.

This tool assigns a certain amount of “weight” to each indicator, and this “weight” can influence  adjacents  price levels. This means that one  price level without any indicator  or moving average but under the influence of two “strongly weighted” levels accumulate more resistance than their neighbors. In these cases, the tool signals resistance in apparently empty areas.

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Yohay Elam

Yohay Elam

Yohay Elam: Founder, Writer and Editor I have been into forex trading for over 5 years, and I share the experience that I have and the knowledge that I've accumulated. After taking a short course about forex. Like many forex traders, I've earned a significant share of my knowledge the hard way. Macroeconomics, the impact of news on the ever-moving currency markets and trading psychology have always fascinated me. Before founding Forex Crunch, I've worked as a programmer in various hi-tech companies. I have a B. Sc. in Computer Science from Ben Gurion University. Given this background, forex software has a relatively bigger share in the posts.