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The pound has more room to fall than rise ahead of the EU Summit

GBP/USD  is not going anywhere fast after UK PM May met EC President Juncker. Both sides smiled and reported progress ahead of the weekend summit on Brexit. However, the technical picture looks less promising.

The  Technical Confluences Indicator  shows that cable faces an uphill battle to recover.  1.2807  is the convergence of the potent Simple Moving Average 200-15m, the SMA 5-one-day, the Bollinger Band 5-one-day, and the Fibonacci 23.6% one-week.

Support at  1.2780  is weaker. It includes the SMA 50-15m, the previous hourly low, the Bollinger Band 15m-Middle, and the BB 1h-Middle, the SMA 5-4h, and the Fibonacci 38.2% one-day.

Losing 1.12780 opens the door to  1.2701  where we see the confluence of the Pivot Point one-week Support 3 and the previous monthly low.

Looking up, overcoming 1.2807 opens the door to  1.2860  which is the meeting point of the Fibonacci 161.8% one-day, the Fibonacci 38.2% one-week, the SMA 200-1h, and the SMA 50-4h.

All in all, resistance clusters are stronger than support ones.

This is how it looks on the tool:

GBP USD technical confluence analysis November 22 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.