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EUR/USD has more room to fall than rise before the US jobs report and Powell

EUR/USD  is trading around 1.1400 on the first Friday of 2019, sticking to familiar ranges seen in late 2018. The Non-Farm Payrolls report and an all-important speech by Fed Chair Jerome Powell are due later. What levels should we watch on euro/dollar?

The  Technical Confluences Indicator  shows that the pair is trading around the  1.1390  area which is a juncture of several technical lines including the Simple Moving Average 200-15 minutes, the Fibonacci 23.6% one-day, the Bollinger Band one-day Middle, and more.

1.1425  serves as an initial hurdle as it is the convergence of the BB 4h-Middle, the SMA 100-1h, the SMA 5-1d, and the BB 1h-Upper.

Further above, the hard cap is at  1.1485  where we note the potent 100-day SMA, the BB 1d-Upper, the PP 1d-R2, and last week’s high. It will be tough for the pair to move above this level.

Looking down, support is slightly weaker.  1.1355  is the confluence of the BB 1h-Lower, the Fibonacci 61.8% 1m, last week’s low, and the Fibonacci 61.8% one-day.

The path low is full of minor cushions, but significant support awaits only at  1.1272  where we see the meeting point of last month’s low, the PP 1d-S2, and the Fibonacci 161.8% one-week.

All in all, resistance lines are more substantial than support lines.

Here is how it looks on the tool:

EUR USD Technical confluence January 4 2019

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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.