AUD/USD Technical Analysis: Aussie parked below 0.7200 key resistance

Flavio Tosti Independent Analyst

AUD/USD daily chart

AUD/USD is trading in a bear trend below its 200-day simple moving averages (SMA).
The market is testing the 200 SMA near the 0.7200 figure.

AUD/USD 4-hour chart

AUD/USD is trading above its main SMAs suggesting a bullish bias in the medium-term.

AUD/USD 30-minute chart

AUD/USD found resistance below 0.7200 key resistance.
The next objective for bears is to drive the market down to 0.7160, 0.7135 and 0.7110 level.
To the upside, key resistance can be seen at 0.7200 and 0.7220 level.

Additional key levels

AUD/USD

Overview
Today last price	0.718
Today Daily Change	0.0009
Today Daily Change %	0.13
Today daily open	0.7171

Trends
Daily SMA20	0.7111
Daily SMA50	0.711
Daily SMA100	0.7139
Daily SMA200	0.7195

Levels
Previous Daily High	0.7193
Previous Daily Low	0.7115
Previous Weekly High	0.7193
Previous Weekly Low	0.7087
Previous Monthly High	0.7168
Previous Monthly Low	0.7002
Daily Fibonacci 38.2%	0.7163
Daily Fibonacci 61.8%	0.7145
Daily Pivot Point S1	0.7126
Daily Pivot Point S2	0.7082
Daily Pivot Point S3	0.7048
Daily Pivot Point R1	0.7204
Daily Pivot Point R2	0.7238
Daily Pivot Point R3	0.7282

Author

Flavio Tosti

Independent Analyst

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