GBP/USD BOE Official Bank Rate Decision Important Levels

Nenad Kerkez Top-XE

The Bank of England MPC decision is due at 11 PM GMT. Market is expecting that policymakers leave interest rates at 0.25 %. But what traders and investors should be focused at is how many of policymakers will vote for a hike and how many will be against the hike. Technically the GBP/USD is in uptrend but that can easily change after today's data and MPC official bank rate votes. 1.3270-85 is the important zone (W H3, D H4, ATR projection high) and the price could reject from the zone once the zone is hit. If the price proceeds above the zone 1.3330-1.3365 is the next zone (D H5, historical bearish order block, previous high, W H4) and rejections should happen there too. On the contrary, 1.3015-1.3030 POC (W L4, previous double bottom, historical order block bullish) could spike the price upwards. Due to huge expected volatility targets are between these important zones marked as Daily camarilla levels as shown on the chart.

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