AUDUSD down 0.75% on the day at 0.7509, Yellen lifts dollar
|Currently, AUD/USD is trading at 0.7509, down -0.78% on the day, having posted a daily high at 0.7567 and low at 0.7505.
Today's trading day has been good to dollar bulls pushing back most US pairs that had the greenback against the wall over the last two weeks. The catalysts that triggered such spectacular run, in some cases gained more than 1.10%, included the decent US CPI and a hawkish tone from Fed's Yellen.
The Australian dollar had little to offer during the NA session as the pair couldn't break above 0.7567, on two different occasions in less than 16-hours. Furthermore, the Aussie surrendered most gains from the last two trading days.
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AUD/USD Levels to consider
Elliot Wave Forcast team notes, "AUDUSD move up from 12/23 low is extending and as pair keeps extending higher with shallow pull backs, it looks like the move up from 12/23 low is unfolding as an Elliott wave impulse when pair is still in wave 3.
"Rally to 0.735 is labelled as wave 1 and dip to 0.7283 is labelled as wave 2. Up from there wave 3 remains in progress towards 0.76 - 1.7629. Once wave 3 is complete, expect the pair to pull back in wave 4 to correct the cycle from red 2 low and turn higher in wave 5 to complete a 5 wave move up from 12/23 (0.7155) low."
"Proposed wave 4 pull back should unfold in 3, 7 or 11 swings and would typically complete between 23.6 - 38.2 Fibonacci retracement of wave 3. Wave 4 pull back should not retrace more than 50% of wave 3 as per the new guidelines that we have introduced ourselves and also not overlap with wave 1."
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