GBP/AUD was near a support after the low at 18th June (red line below prices). Everything fit into place in this trade for the Support/Resistance trading setup.
1. Background was neutral
2. Demand signals near the support, which is the smart money buying into a previous area of demand
3. Went long in a test-like bar (part of long type bars), shown by the volumes indicator
4. Exit in a weak signal. Holding through the weekend and exiting on the trailing stop was also OK
In Euro/US Dollar we’ve seen massive buying recently, which subsequently made the downtrend reverse. This can be seen by the very high volumes and green signals, highlighted in the drawn box. Tecnically, the prices are just below a down trendline, and an interesting bar was seen in the weekly timeframe, signaled by the arrow and an orange histogram – this was an upthrust, a bar that closed on the lows of the week, yet making a high significantly far away from it. The high is at 1.138 and the close at 1.110, and it’s accompanied by a very high volume. If the prices traveled such a distance on such a volume, this means that was actually selling coming into the market that week. The question is whether this is just a temporary weakness, and we can look at the daily for more clues…
In the daily timeframe, there were many strong signals since March’s bottom, and prices are making higher lows ever since, which means until now the market has been sustained, but reaching at the trendline, the volumes are quite low. Two possible scenarios are: the trendline being broken with moderate/high volumes, which would be a good demand confirmation for a long OR the market makes a lower high or lower low, which would break the uptrend going on in the daily and would mean the weakness seen in the weekly timeframe is ‘spilling over’ and preventing further advances.
Gold (XAU/USD) and Silver (XAG/USD) are naturally, two very correlated commodities, and the recent action is no exception.
Gold is near a support and a previous broken trendline. There was recent strength (blue signal) with moderate volumes, in an area of previous strength, which could be the first signal the support is holding, but so far the market doesn’t show signs of stabilizing – it keeps making new lows, and the background is still weak.
Silver is too near a support, and in the mid of a down trending channel. Given the price range silver showed today, and the fact it broke a previous support at 15.8, it was expected that the recent strength has higher volumes than in gold, since more traders and stop-losses were ‘shook-out’. Like gold, it’s making lower lows, and the background is still weak mostly due to the downtrend. I would like to see a rally to finally break the downtrend and confirm the recent strength was in fact accumulation; if the downtrend is to continue, it’s probably going to test the demand at 1162 in gold, which occured in early June. In the case the market rallies and it gives an opportunity to enter, I’d be more inclined to invest in silver rather than in gold, or at least to have a larger position in silver, as XAU/XAG (Gold/Silver ratio, tradable in some brokers) is showing major selling, which it’s preventing it to break a key resistance.
The low-volume rally I referred in my last post was indeed weakness, and the prices quickly rejected the trendline. Since there wasn’t a bullish test or strength above the trendline, there was no confirmation; the strong signal was formed below the trendline, which means it could be buying from traders buying at the broken trendline (in analogy with the commonly seen demand signals near an important support). The prices continued to drift downwards, and the market is now rallying, yet again on low volumes. I only kept the older trendline for reference, as there’s another one validated with the last high, which is the one that should be used.
Eventual shorts should be taken nearer to the trendline, though with the recent strong signals at this price level, I want to see weak signals with significant volumes first to prepare for a short trade. On the other hand, a break of the trendline with good volume would be bullish, given the strength behind; the background should also change accordingly.
Euro/Pound has seen massive buying around 714 price level, seen by the green signals and very high (red) volumes that accompanied them. The trendline is coming from 10th June, and has been recently broken. The prices also went below the 61.8% Fibo, levels used by retail traders that are usually shook-out for stop-losses on long positions by the smart money. The volumes on the up bars, however, are low (yellow in histogram), which doesn’t seem to be strength after such an heavy professional support that there was before. Perhaps the smart money isn’t interested in higher prices right now, and they either need to buy more to support an uptrend, or they need to see there isn’t significant supply (by a bullish test at a lower price), or it’s just a temporary weakness. I’m therefore looking for the prices to go lower and test the supply there, or waiting for more strong (demand) signals. If they go up on high volumes (above average) that would also be a confirmation that the trend is changing.
Prices are just now breaking-out the resistance at 191.93, formed at 5/June. The background is positive, though the market has been on a strong trend for 3 days now, so a pause after the break-out is likely. I want to see a good volume on the break and a test bar (gray histogram bar) afterwards. Given the circumstances, it’s likely the market will have to be shaked-out, with prices coming to 191 2 price level, so the stop-loss can’t be too tight.
