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Weekly waves: EUR/USD, Bitcoin, and Dow Jones

  • EUR/USD is in a free fall after dropping 700 pips from 1.15 to 1.08 in just 4 weeks. The EUR/USD has managed to reach the 88.6% Fibonacci retracement support.

  • The Bitcoin crypto pair (BTC/USD) made a huge bullish bounce up but price action was unable to break above the resistance (orange).

  • The US30 weekly chart seems to be building a bearish retracement or reversal after being in a long-term uptrend.

EUR/USD 

  1. The EUR/USD has managed to reach the 88.6% Fibonacci retracement support level at 1.08. 

  2. The support zone (blue box and green line) could cause the EUR/USD to pauze its downtrend.

  3. If price action builds a bear flag pattern (gray lines), then a downtrend continuation is expected. In that case, price action is probably building a wave 3 (pink or gray). A shallow retracement indicates a wave 3 (gray) of wave 3 (pink) but a deeper retrace could indicate a wave 4 (pink) instead.

  4. If price action is more bullish (green arrow), then a larger bullish retracement is expected to take place. In that case, a wave D-E (pink) pattern is expected.

  5. An immediate break below the support zone could indicate an immediate downtrend.

EURUSD

BTC/USD 

  1. BTC/USD has probably made a wave B (gray) at the lower high.

  2. This wave B (gray) seems to be part of a larger ABC (gray) pattern within a wave B (pink).

  3. A deeper bearish retracement could take place if price action stays below the local resistance zone (red lines).

  4. But the Fibonacci levels are expecting to be a support zone if price action indeed completed a wave A (pink) impulse.

  5. A bullish price swing could test the resistance trend lines (orange). A bearish bounce indicates the potential for an ABCDE triangle (gray).

  6. A bullish breakout is part of a wave C (pink) in wave B (red).

Bitcoin

US 30 

The US30 is in a downtrend channel after breaking below the support zone (dotted green lines):

  1. The US30 weekly chart seems to be building a bearish retracement or reversal after being in a long-term uptrend.

  2. The wave 5 (pink) of wave 3 (red), however, seems completed and price action is retracing within a potential wave 4 (red).

  3. The retracement could go as far as the 23.6% Fibonacci level which could provide a bounce back up.

  4. An ABC (pink) pattern could take price action back as low as the 38.2% Fibonacci retracement level.

  5. The ABC (pink) pattern could be part of a complex wave W (green).

  6. US 30

The analysis has been done with the indicators and template from the SWAT method simple wave analysis and trading. For more daily technical and wave analysis and updates, sign-up to our newsletter

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Chris Svorcik

Chris Svorcik

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Chris Svorcik is a trader, analyst, and educator with over 15 years of experience in financial markets, specializing in moving averages, market structure, and price patterns.

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