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EUR/USD locked and loaded as markets await tariffs, NFP

The  EUR/USD  is sticking to well-known levels above 1.1600, awaiting news on new US tariffs on China, as well as the US Non-Farm Payrolls. What’s next? The big targets have not changed, but in order to determine the direction, the near-term levels play a critical role.

The  Technical Confluences Indicator  shows that immediate resistance awaits at  1.1641  which is the convergence of the Bolinger Band one-hour Upper, the Fibonacci 61.8% one-day, the Simple Moving Average 200-one-hour, and then the Fibonacci 38.2% one-week as well as the SMA 10-one-day.

If this immediate cap is broken, the road is open to shooting higher to  1.1738  which is the confluence of last month’s high and last week’s high.

Looking down, immediate support awaits around  1.1623  which is a dense cluster of levels including the SMA 50-one-day, the Fibonacci 23.6% one-day, the SMA 200-15m, the SMA 50-one-hour, the Fibonacci 23.6% one-week, the BB 15m-Middle, the SMA 5-one day, the BB one-hour Lower, the BB 15m-lower, and quite a few additional levels.

A break below this near-term support opens the door to  1.1550which is the confluence of the PP one-day Support 3, the BB one-day Middle and the BB 4h-Lower.

Here is how it looks on the tool:

EUR USD technical confluence levels September 7 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. These weightings mean 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.