Weekly waves: EUR/USD, GBP/USD, and Bitcoin

EUR/USD bullis spike part of triangle pattern?

The EUR/USD looked bearish in last week’s Elliott Wave analysis but price action actually made a very strong bullish bounce.

1. Is it time for a bullish reversal? Not yet in our analysis. Price action made a strong move up but has respected the 38.2%-50% Fibonacci resistance levels.

2. The bullish swing is expected to be a wave A (orange) of a larger ABCDE (orange) triangle pattern. The triangle would confirm the wave 4 (green) pattern.

3. A bearish breakout would indicate a wave 5 (green) of wave 3 (pink) whereas a bullish breakout above the top places the bearish analysis on hold. A break above the bottom of wave 1 (red circle) invalidates it. The main target for the bearish trend is 1.10. 

BTC/USD re-changes back to original ABC pattern

The Bitcoin crypto pair (BTC/USD) seemed to have completed a bearish wave A at the end of January. Last week we decided to make a revision to that Elliott Wave forecast with a wave 4 and then another bearish wave 5. Now the situation is 50-50%:

1. At the moment, price action is making a 3 wave pattern upwards - like an ABC or 123 (green). But the 3rd wave is much stronger than the usual wave C and is behaving more like wave 3.

2. If price action completes a 5 wave pattern on lower time frames, then the bearish scenario with a wave 4-5 within wave A (pink) is unlikely.

3. In that case, a bullish ABC (gray) pattern is taking place within the expected wave B (pink).

4. Any of the Fibonacci retracement levels of wave B (pink) could stop price action from further gains and revert the price action back into wave C (pink).

5. A deep bullish push indicates that the previous bottom will probably be the final spot for wave C (pink) whereas a shallow bearish bounce at the 50 or 61.8% Fibonacci level indicates a potential deeper bearish wave C (pink) swing.

GBP/USD bullish ABC zigzag pattern

1. This remains valid as long as price action stays above the bottom (red circle).

2. A break below the 88.6% Fibonacci places the bullish zigzag pattern on hold (orange circle).

3. The main target is the -27.2% Fibonacci level at 1.39.

4. A break above the resistance trend lines (orange) confirms the potential bullish breakout.

5. A break below the support trend line (green) indicates a test of deeper Fibonacci retracement levels.

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