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Thursday, January 10, 2013

Elliott wave analysis of EUR/JPY and EUR/NZD

EUR/JPY
 
As we saw a clear break above minor resistance at 114.51 we could have seen the bottom for wave 4. However, a break above important resistance at 115.55 is needed to confirm the bottom and a new rally higher towards 115.99 and beyond towards the 117.50 - 117.90 area as the next target. Short term I will be looking for minor resistance at 115.25 to protect the upside for a minor set-back towards 114.51 before the next rally higher to challenge important resistance at 115.55. The risk at this point is a break below 114.07, which would call for one last decline towards 113.24 before the next rally higher.
 

EUR/NZD
 
We are now close to the "Make it or Break it" point at 1.5445. From the EWO indicator I can see, that this market is becoming extremely oversold and at the same time has a possible Hidden Divergence, which means, that we can see a new bottom on the EWO Indicator, but not in the price-action. That said, this only becomes a valid signal if we break back above 1.5714. As long as resistance at 1.5714 protects the upside the risk is, that we will see further downside action, but at no point is a break below 1.5445 allowed, as that will invalidate the count above and call for a more bearish count. Only a break above resistance at 1.5714 will ease the downside pressure and call for a rally higher towards 1.5841 and the next target on the way higher.

6 comments:

  1. Hi EWS,
    Do you think the bottom is in on the EUR/USD as well?

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  2. a rookie question:
    does the price of cross pairs like eur/nzd forms independently (a hedge fund manager says: let's buy eur/nzd today) or it's just a result of calculating of the bid/ask prices at eur/usd & nzd/usd? Or let me put it in another way: can some bank of fund drive the price of eur/nzd or he has to look at eur/usd and nzd/usd only and buy eur/usd or sell nzd/usd for driving the cross pair?

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  3. Hi Todd,

    Yes I do believe we have seen a bottom in EUR/USD as well, but we need support at 1.3017 to protect the downsid for a break above 1.3140, which should kick us back to 1.3300 and likely above.

    Kind regards
    EWS

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  4. Hi Marjan,

    I would doubt if a Fund Manager will create a EUR/NZD position going through EUR/USD and USD/NZD. I would think that he or she will ask the bank directly for EUR/NZD. However, the bank will most likely split the transaction into a EUR/USD and a USD/NZD position when the cover the transaction.

    I don't think any currency pair perform independently, but I see no reason why to try to look at EUR/USD and USD/NZD to figure out where EUR/NZD is going. I can only see trouble and a lot of wasted work ahead of you, if you choose to go that way.

    But that is just my humble opinion.

    Kind regards
    EWS

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  5. thanks EWS, I appreciate your answer. I already took long position at eur/nzd and eur/aud.

    regards

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