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AUD/USD Price Analysis: Bears ready to pounce while front side of trend

  • AUD/USD is on the front side of the bear trend, potentially leading to a bearish start to the week. 
  • AUD/USD bears lurking below the Fibo scale. 

As per the prior analysis, AUD/USD Price Analysis: Bears in the market, chipping away into key support, where the focus was on the downside, we have indeed seen a deeper move into support.

AUD/USD prior support

There is an emphasis on the downside for the meanwhile on the lower time frames:

Zoomed in, we could see that AUD/USD had left an M-formation on the 4-hour chart. A correction into the neckline would meet a 38.2% Fibonacci of the prior bearish leg.

Either way, below there, the bias was to the downside for a deeper test into the support area. 0.6725 is an upside resistance that guards a continuation higher subsequent of the bullish breakout. 

AUD/USD update

The price action followed the forecasted trajectory as illustrated above. 

With the recent break of the structure of 0.6650, there is a bias to the downside still while on the front side of the bear trendline.

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