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GBP/USD is limited in range, where will it break to?

GBP/USD  is trading marginally lower amid news that the UK Labour Party tabled a parliamentary motion that could open the door to a second EU Referendum, potentially averting Brexit.

The  Technical Confluences Indicator  shows that cable faces resistance at  1.2910  which is the convergence of the Pivot Point one-month Resistance 1, the Bollinger Band 4h-Middle, the Simple Moving Average 5-one-day, the SMA 200-15m, the SMA 100-one-day, the Fibonacci 23.6% one-day, and more.

Breaking above this level will allow GBP/USD to run higher, opening the road to  1.3004  where we see the Pivot Point one-day R3, and last week’s high.

Looking down, Sterling has significant support at  1.2850  where we see the confluence of the Pivot Point one-day Support 1, the SMA 10-one-day, last month’s high and also the SMA 200-1h, and the Fibonacci 61.8% one-day.

Losing that line could send the pair down to  1.2800  where we see the convergence of the Fibonacci 61.8% one-week, the SMA 100-4h, and the Pivot Point one-day S2.

All in all, once GBP/USD decides where to break out to, it could run quite a bit.

This is how it looks on the tool:

GBP USD technical confluence January 22 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.