EUR/USD Technical Analysis: Early Wednesday buyers should watch out for falling bears

After the EUR/USD's fantastic decline on Tuesday, the pair is seeing a mild bounceback into the 1.1385 region, though major intraday resistance rests at the 38.2% Fibo level of yesterday's contraction sits in confluence with the 1.1400 handle.
EUR/USD Forecast: Overnight slump leads to a bearish bias ahead of EU's response to Italy

Joshua Gibson FXStreet

EUR/USD Chart, 5-Minute

With the EUR/USD tracking back into previous swing highs, the pair runs the risk of descending into old bearish territory if bidders can't keep the price over the 1.1350 region.

EUR/USD Chart, 30-Minute

The 4-hour candles show the Fiber making a rough rejection play off of both the 38.2% Fibo retracement level at 1.4445 as well as the 200-period moving average resting at 1.1430.

EUR/USD Chart, 4-Hour

EUR/USD

Overview:
    Last Price: 1.1379
    Daily change: 10 pips
    Daily change: 0.0880%
    Daily Open: 1.1369
Trends:
    Daily SMA20: 1.1368
    Daily SMA50: 1.1504
    Daily SMA100: 1.1558
    Daily SMA200: 1.1806
Levels:
    Daily High: 1.1473
    Daily Low: 1.1358
    Weekly High: 1.142
    Weekly Low: 1.1216
    Monthly High: 1.1625
    Monthly Low: 1.1302
    Daily Fibonacci 38.2%: 1.1402
    Daily Fibonacci 61.8%: 1.1429
    Daily Pivot Point S1: 1.1327
    Daily Pivot Point S2: 1.1284
    Daily Pivot Point S3: 1.1211
    Daily Pivot Point R1: 1.1442
    Daily Pivot Point R2: 1.1515
    Daily Pivot Point R3: 1.1558

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Joshua Gibson

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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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