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GBP/USD targets 1.2870 and a recovery may be hard

The  GBP/USD  is under pressure as the US Dollar gains  strength across the board and worries about Brexit consume the Conservative Party. Where next for the Pound? Recovering may be hard, and falling is more natural.

The  Technical Confluences Indicator  shows that Sterling has noteworthy support only at  1.2984  where we see the confluence of the Fibonacci 61.8% one-month and the Simple Moving Average 50 one-day.

Lower, a feeble cushion awaits at  1.2950  which is the confluence of two Pivot Points: the one-day Support 2 and the one-week Support 1.

Significant support is only at  1.2870  which is where the Bollinger Band one-day Lower and the Pivot Point one-week Support 2 converge.

Looking up, resistance is considerable. At  1.3038  we see a dense cluster of lines including the Simple Moving Average 5-one-hour, the SMA 504h, the Bollinger Band 15m-Middle, the Fibonacci 23.6% one-day, the SMA 50-15m, the BB 1h-Middle, the SMA 200-15m, and the SMA 50-1h.

The path higher is filled with substantial caps peaking at  1.3106which is the congestion of the SMA 5 one-day, the SMA 100-4h, the PP one-day R1, and the all-important Fibonacci 38.2% one-month.

All in all, the path of least resistance is down.

This is how it looks on the tool:

GBPUSD confluence October 2 2018 technical

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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.