Technical Bias: Bearish
Key Takeaways
- Euro was following a nice bullish trend until sellers stepped in to clear an important support.
- Canadian Consumer Price Index (CPI) will be released by the Statistics Canada today, which is expected to post an increase of 1% in February 2015, compared to February 2014.
- EURCAD has a major resistance on the upside around 1.3600-20 where sellers might take control.
Canadian CPI will be released today, which might ignite a lot of moves in the Canadian dollar pairs in the short term.
Technical Analysis
The Euro traded higher this week against the Canadian dollar until the EURCAD pair found a major resistance around the 100 simple moving average (SMA) – 4H. There was a bullish trend line formed on the 4 hour chart as well, which was breached by sellers. The downside reaction was very sharp, but the EURCAD pair managed to find support around the 76.4% fib retracement level of the last leg from the 1.3386 low to 1.3744 high. The pair is currently moving back higher, but there is a major hurdle formed around the 1.3600-20 area, which can be considered as a pivot area for the pair. The most crucial resistance is around 100 SMA (4H) where the Euro buyers might struggle one more time.
If the EURCAD fails to move higher, then it might head back towards the recent low of 1.3470. Any further losses might take the pair towards 1.3400.
We need to monitor movements in the 4H RSI, as a break below 50 could ignite bearish pressure.
Canadian CPI
Later during the NY session, Consumer Price Index (CPI) will be released by the Statistics Canada. The forecast is slated for an increase of 1% in February 2015, compared to February 2014.
Trade Idea
One might consider selling rallies in the EURCAD pair around 1.3620 as long as the pair stays below the 100 SMA (4H).
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