AUD/NZD Price Analysis: grinding against support from the bullish side of 1.0800

The AUD/NZD continues to grind it out towards the midrange just north of 1.0800.
The Aussie-Kiwi pairing has been getting a little frothy on the intraday charts.
Topside momentum goes to the AUD for the time being amidst NZD weakness.

Joshua Gibson FXStreet

The AUD/NZD is leaning towards the topside on the intraday charts, with hourly candles grasping to climb over the 200-hour Simple Moving Average (SMA) descending into 1.0820. Bids on the pair have been pushing to reclaim the week's peaks near 1.0870.

Near-term momentum has been tilting towards the upside, but not enough to send the 50-hour SMA into a bullish stance, and the moving average is hesitating on the bearish side of the 200-hour SMA.

On the daily candlesticks, the AUD/NZD has been churning around the 200- and 50-day SMAs, which are similarly grinding sideways while stacked bearishly, with the 50-day SMA paddling just south of the longer moving average.

The pair's last two price level breaks in either direction resulted in failed breakouts, and constraining volatility peaks on both sides of the bids is setting up a technical breakout that could develop legs with firm chart support forming up in either direction.

Directional momentum remains low for the meantime, and technical indicators have ground to a halt in their midranges. The Relative Strength Index (RSI) is cycling the 50.0 non-directional level and the Moving Average Convergence-Divergence (MACD) has its long-run histogram bleeding towards the middle ground.

AUD/NZD Hourly Chart

AUD/NZD Daily Chart

AUD/NZD Technical Levels

AUD/NZD

Overview
Today last price	1.0841
Today Daily Change	0.0035
Today Daily Change %	0.32
Today daily open	1.0806

Trends
Daily SMA20	1.0856
Daily SMA50	1.0805
Daily SMA100	1.0814
Daily SMA200	1.0815

Levels
Previous Daily High	1.0835
Previous Daily Low	1.0774
Previous Weekly High	1.09
Previous Weekly Low	1.0777
Previous Monthly High	1.093
Previous Monthly Low	1.0624
Daily Fibonacci 38.2%	1.0798
Daily Fibonacci 61.8%	1.0812
Daily Pivot Point S1	1.0775
Daily Pivot Point S2	1.0744
Daily Pivot Point S3	1.0714
Daily Pivot Point R1	1.0836
Daily Pivot Point R2	1.0866
Daily Pivot Point R3	1.0897

Author

Joshua Gibson

FXStreet

Joshua joins the FXStreet team as an Economics and Finance double major from Vancouver Island University with twelve years' experience as an independent trader focusing on technical analysis.

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