Analysis Topic: Currency Market Analysis
The analysis published under this topic are as follows.
Wednesday, August 02, 2017
GBP/USD - Will Currency Bulls Break above Long-term Resistances? / Currencies / Forex Trading
By: Nadia_Simmons
Although GBP/USD moved higher once again earlier today, currency bulls approached two very important resistances on their way to higher levels. Will they be strong enough to push the exchange rate above them?
Wednesday, August 02, 2017
Bitcoin in Trading Range / Currencies / Bitcoin
By: Mike_McAra
The BTC-e debacle continues with the U.S. government seizing the exchange’s website. Now, BTC-e has its data center seized by the FBI. On CoinDesk, we read:
(…) in a statement on the Bitcoin Talk forum (that was tweeted out via its official account), representatives for the exchange issued new comments, including a pledge to return users' funds.
Tuesday, August 01, 2017
GBPUSD Broke Above Channel Resistance / Currencies / British Pound
By: Franco_Shao
GBPUSD broke above the descending price channel at 1.3100 on its weekly chart, indicating that lengthier correction for the long term downtrend from the July 2014 high of 1.7190 is needed.
Tuesday, August 01, 2017
When Fiat Currencies Die - Preparing to Barter and Trade Is NOT a Loony Idea / Currencies / Fiat Currency
By: MoneyMetals
Let’s start with this fact; fiat (paper) currencies die – often spectacularly. That is why precious metals may someday be needed for barter and trade. Anyone who thinks it is silly to worry about such a thing is putting blind faith in Federal Reserve Notes.
The U.S. dollar is having a great run, no question. It will soon be 50 years since Nixon closed the gold window, thereby converting the dollar to a purely fiat currency. Five decades is longer than most purely fiat currencies survive.
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Saturday, July 29, 2017
Bitcoin Price Soars As Everyone Wants a Bitcoin Cash Lottery Ticket on August 1st / Currencies / Bitcoin
By: Jeff_Berwick
Bitcoin has been soaring in recent days and it is likely due to the fact that there will be a bitcoin hard fork on August 1st.
Many speculated that a fork would cause the price of bitcoin to drop. But that is far from the case. And it makes sense that the price is actually increasing on this news because if you hold bitcoin properly (more on that soon) you will end up with both Bitcoin (BTC) and Bitcoin Cash (BCC)... and we know from experience with the Ethereum fork into Ethereum and Ethereum Classic, that the two combined can be worth much more than just the one.
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Saturday, July 29, 2017
Are Cryptocurrencies for Real? / Currencies / BlockChain
By: Harry_Dent
Bitcoin. Blockchain. Ethereum. Veritaseum. Litecoin. Ripple. ICOs.
It seems like nowadays you can’t listen to or read the news without hearing something about cryptocurrencies. And it looks like investors are going crazy over it.
Ripple has gained 3,000% this year.
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Friday, July 28, 2017
Will USD/CAD Drop Further? / Currencies / Forex Trading
By: Nadia_Simmons
Yesterday, the greenback extended losses against the Canadian dollar, which resulted in a drop below the May 2016 low. Does it mean that the way to lower levels is open?
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Thursday, July 27, 2017
US Dollar - Make Way For Uncle Buck / Currencies / US Dollar
By: Gary_Tanashian
It has been a contrarian trade that has not yet worked out; by that I mean my short position on the Euro and preparation for a firming US dollar. Yesterday the market cheered the supposedly dovish Fed, and USD got smeared again as the world’s counter party paper boosted assets far and wide… on nothing but perceptions and a hell of a lot of momentum and gaming on FOMC day.
USD opened weak again today but so far at least, is sporting a Hammer which, if it stays in play, would be a bullish reversal candle.
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Thursday, July 27, 2017
The Fed May Influence the Bounce in USD / Currencies / US Dollar
By: Anthony_Cherniawski
USD futures remain flat at this time. However, it may have reached its Head & Shoulders target and Master Cycle low today. The Fed action may have some influence on the bounce, since it is ready to do so.
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Wednesday, July 26, 2017
Money Is Money, Wherever It Comes From / Currencies / Fiat Currency
By: Raul_I_Meijer
One of the crucial things to understand about today’s world is that money is fungible. Whether it’s created in Japan, Europe, China or the US, once it’s tossed by a central bank into one or another part of the global economy, it eventually finds its way to a common pool of liquidity.
So the modest US tightening of the past year (100 basis point increase in the Fed Funds rate, slight decrease in Fed balance sheet) has to be seen in a global context. And that context is still insanely easy. Here, for instance, is China’s “social financing” – their term for total new debt:
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Wednesday, July 26, 2017
Bitcoin Price Close to All-time High / Currencies / Bitcoin
By: Mike_McAra
The recent surge in Bitcoin is associated with the technical details of the currency and an agreement which avoids a fork for the time being. In an article on Business Insider, we read:
Bitcoin has recovered somewhat from the drop in value seen last Sunday, with the price of the cryptocurrency reaching $2,701 at the time of this writing.
The stabilization seems to be the result of Bitcoin miners reaching an agreement on the enactment of the Bitcoin Improvement Proposal.
This agreement means the avoidance of a user-activated softfork (UASF), the possibility of which caused significant unease among investors.
Tuesday, July 25, 2017
USDCNH Is Facing 6.7210 Support / Currencies / Forex Trading
By: Franco_Shao
The USDCNH pair failed to settle above 6.8450 resistance and pulled back to 6.7400 area, facing the previous low support at 6.7210. As mentioned before, the pullback would possibly be correction of the uptrend from 6.7210.
Monday, July 24, 2017
Last Chance For US Dollar To Rally / Currencies / US Dollar
By: Gary_Savage
I think we need to focus on what is happening to the dollar. The intermediate cycle is now 63 weeks long. Clearly that isn’t normal. I’ve maintained for several years that the end game was going to play out in the currency markets. There has to be consequences to printing trillions and trillions of currency units , and leaving interest rates at 0 for 8 years. I don’t think the consequences are going to be deflation. I think the end game will be inflation, just like it was in the 70’s, and just like it was in 2007 and 2008.
It’s taken a while to manifest as other countries have jumped into the game and turned on their printing presses as well, so the collapse in the currency I’ve been looking for has taken quite a while to unfold. The first leg down ended in 2008.
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Friday, July 21, 2017
GBP/USD Bearish Factors / Currencies / Forex Trading
By: Nadia_Simmons
On Tuesday, British pound move lower against the greenback, which resulted in an invalidation of the breakout above two important resistances. How did this negative development affect the technical picture of GBP/USD?
In our opinion the following forex trading positions are justified - summary:
EUR/USD: none
GBP/USD: short (a stop-loss order at 1.3232; the initial downside target at 1.2375)
USD/JPY: none
USD/CAD: none
USD/CHF: none
AUD/USD: none
Thursday, July 20, 2017
Millennials Can Punt On Bitcoin, Own Safe Haven Gold For Long Term / Currencies / Bitcoin
By: GoldCore
– Bitcoin volatility shows not currency or safe haven but speculation
– Volatility still very high in bitcoin and crypto currencies (see charts)
– Bitcoin fell 25% over weekend; Recent high of $3,000 fell to below $1,900
– Bitcoin least volatile of cryptos, around 75% annualised volatility
– Gold much more stable at just 10% annualised volatility
– Bitcoin volatility against USD about 5-7 times vol of traditional forex trading
Thursday, July 20, 2017
The US Dollar Falls To New Lows, And So Do The Excuses To Explain It / Currencies / US Dollar
By: Submissions
Mike Golembesky writes: The DXY Index, which is widely cited in the financial press as the "Dollar" or "US Dollar," has seen a correction that began in January of this year after topping at the 103.82 level, and has continued into this week's (Tues July 18) low, which came in at 94.48. This represents a move of just under 9%, which in the currency markets is not a small move.
Wednesday, July 19, 2017
Bitcoin PullBack Is Over (For Now): Cryptocurrencies Gain Nearly A 50% In Last 48 Hours / Currencies / Bitcoin
By: Jeff_Berwick
So much for the cryptocurrency correction. Two days ago when bitcoin hit nearly $1,800 and the market capitalization of all cryptocurrencies nearly touched $60 billion, I wrote in my article entitled, “Coinpocalypse”, “I am now thinking it has dropped enough to start wading back in.”
And, it appears I nailed it almost down to the minute. As soon as that article went live, the cryptocurrencies began staging a comeback. And they continue to do so as we speak.
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Tuesday, July 18, 2017
Ethereum Versus Bitcoin – Which Cryptocurrency Will Win The War? / Currencies / BlockChain
By: Boris_Dzhingarov
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Tuesday, July 18, 2017
USDCAD Facing Important Support At 1.2460 / Currencies / Canadian $
By: Franco_Shao
The USDCAD pair recently broke below the channel support and 1.2968 key support on its weekly chart, indicating that the long term bearish movement from the January 2016 high of 1.4689 has resumed. The pair extended its bearish movement to as low as 1.2627, facing an important support level at the May 2016 low of 1.2460.
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Monday, July 17, 2017
Bitcoin Price “Deja Vu” Corrective Sequence / Currencies / Bitcoin
By: ElliottWave-Forecast
Since June peak at $3000, Bitcoin lost 35% of it’s value driving the rest of the cryptocurrency market into chaos as 1st August is approaching which is scheduled to trigger activation of Segregated Witness (SegWit) and could lead to a split in Bitcoin’s blockchain. There is no need to explain what’s going to happen in the coming weeks as the internet is already full of articles containing the details about it.
What’s really important is the price structure and how we can interpret it to get an idea about the possible coming path. We believe that the world market is ruled by technical analysis as fundamentals is only used to trigger the move. So as we have an important coming event for Bitcoin, then usually the market will send us a message through the charts which we can read it with different methods.
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