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GBP/USD Sunday gap will not be easy to close

Yohay Elam

The  GBP/USD  kicked off the week on the lower ground due to Barnier’s comments rejecting Britain’s Brexit proposal. Can it recover? It will not be easy.

The  Technical Confluences Indicator  shows that the pair faces robust resistance at  1.2967  which is the convergence of the Bolinger Band one-hour Middle, the Fibonacci 61.8% one-month, the Fibonacci 48.%, and the Fibonacci 23.6% one-day.

The substantial resistance line for the GBP/USD awaits at  1.3047which is the confluence of the Bolinger Band one-day Upper, last month’s high, and last week’s high.

On the downside, there is immediate, yet not-that-strong support at around  1.2915  and this includes the Bolinger Band 15m-Lower, the Simple Moving Average 5-1h, the Bolinger Band 15-Middle, and the SMA 10-one-day.

A more significant cushion is only at the  1.2845  where we see the meeting point of the Pivot Point one-day Support 3, the PP one-week Support 1, the Fibonacci 38.2% one-month, and the BB one-day Middle.

All in all, a recovery will be hard to pull off.

This is how it looks on the tool:

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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.