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GBP/USD remains under pressure despite the recent recovery

Yohay Elam

The GBP/USD managed to recover on Powell’s relatively dovish words on Friday, but a recovery will be hard to stage.

The  Technical Confluences Indicator  shows that cable faces a dense cluster of resistance levels at around  1.2862. This includes the Bolinger Band 15m-Middle, the Simple Moving Average 10-15m, the SMA 5-1h, the Fibonacci 38.2% one-week, the Fibonacci 23.6% one-day, the BB 15m-Middle, the SMA 100-1h, the BB 4h-Middle, the BB 1h-Upper, the Fibonacci 38.2% one-day, and a few additional lines.

Should the pair overcome this hurdle,  1.2888  is another cap that consists of the BB one-day-Middle, the Fibonacci 23.6% one-week, and the one-day high.

Next up, we find  1.2934  which is the convergence of the BB 4h-Upper, the Pivot Point one-month Support 1, the PP one-day Resistance 2, and last week’s high.

Looking down, weak support awaits at  1.2801  where we see the confluence of the SMA 200-1h, the BB 4h-Lower, the SMA 50-4h, the Fibonacci 61.8% one-week, and the Pivot Point one-day S1.

Substantial support awaits only at  1.2748  which is the convergence of the Pivot Point one-month Support 2, the Fibonacci 161.8% one-day, the PP one-week S1, and last week’s low.

This is how it looks on the tool:

GBPUSD technical confluence levels August 27 2018

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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.