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GBP/USD may have exhausted the upside

GBP/USD  kicked off the new trading week with a Sunday gap and is trading around 1.2900. Can it extend its gains? Not so fast.

The  Technical Confluences Indicator  shows that cable faces a dense cluster of resistance lines at  1.2925, where we see the Fibonacci 38.2% one-month, the Simple Moving Average 200-4h, the Bollinger Band 15 minutes Upper, the SMA 5-15m, the SMA 10-1h, the SMA 10-1d, the SMA 10-15m, and the BB 15-minute Middle.

If the pair breaks to higher ground, the next cap is close. At  1.2977  we see the convergence of the Pivot Point one-day Resistance  2 and the PP one-week Resistance 1.

Looking down, some support awaits at  1.2876-1.2895  area where we see the previous 4h low, at SMA 50-4h, the SMA 200-1h, the Fibonacci 23.6% one-day, the SMA 100-1d, and the BB 1h-Middle converge.

Further down, support awaits at  1.2823  which is the meeting point of the Fibonacci 23.6% one-week and the Pivot  Point one-day Support 1.

This is how it looks on the tool:

GBP USD technical confluence February 18 2019

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. 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.

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.