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EUR/USD does not look good ahead of the Non-Farm Payrolls

The  EUR/USD  managed to stabilize after the downfall and hugs the 1.1500 level. Markets are awaiting the all-important US Non-Farm Payrolls report which carries higher expectations than usual. What’s next? Resistance is stronger than support.

The  Technical Confluences Indicator  shows that the pair will find it hard to climb above 1.1500 as many technical resistance lines are in its way with a culmination at 1.1530. The former triple-bottom is also the convergence of the Fibonacci 23.6% one-day, last month’s low, the 4h-high, the Bollinger Band 1h-Upper, the Fibonacci 38.2% one-day, the Simple Moving Average 200-15m, the SMA 50-1h, and the Bollinger Band 15m-Upper.

If the pair surges above 1.1530, the ambitious upside target would be  1.1640  where we see a congestion including the  SMA 200-4h, the SMA 100-one-day, the Bollinger Band one-day-Middle, the Fibonacci 61.8% one-month, the Fibonacci 23.6% one-week, and the Pivot Point one-day R1.

Looking down, we see soft support around  1.1475  which is the confluence of the PP one-day S1, the BB one-day Lower, the BB 4h-Lower, and the  PP one-month S1.

Lower, weak support is at  1.1415  where we see meeting  point of the Fibonacci 161.8% one-day, and the Pivot Point one-week S2.

Here is how it looks on the tool:

EUR USD Technical Analysis October 8 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.