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NZD/USD Price Analysis: Bulls assert dominance, closes its best week of 2024

  • The daily chart reveals a strong bullish sentiment with indicators deep in positive territory.
  • Hourly indicators show a flattening buying traction but remain positive.
  • The pair closed its best week since November 2023.

In Friday's session, the NZD/USD rose to the 0.6137 level, demonstrating a strong bullish trend. After closing above its main Simple Moving Averages (SMAs) of 20,100 and 200 days, the pair secured its best week since late 2023.

On the daily chart, the Relative Strength Index (RSI) reveals a positive trend, moving from below 60 and nearing the 70 mark. This indicates that the NZD/USD pair is accumulating strength, demonstrating bullish pressure in the recent sessions. Concurrently, the Moving Average Convergence Divergence (MACD) prints green bars, showing steady buying traction.

NZD/USD daily chart

The hourly RSI readings exhibit a consistent positive trend over the recent hours, but was seen finishing at 57.17 but pointing downwards. The hourly MACD chart supports this view, with gradually diminishing green bars indicating a slowing positive momentum as investors take profits.

NZD/USD hourly chart

In conclusion, the NZD/USD is in a robust technical position, showing short and long-term bullish signals on the daily and short-term charts. Although the RSI shows that the pair is approaching overbought conditions and the  hourly indicators show dwindling positive momentum, the pair retains its position above vital SMAs. Traders shouldn’t take off the table further corrective movements as investors might continue taking profits.

NZD/USD

Overview
Today last price0.6131
Today Daily Change0.0010
Today Daily Change %0.16
Today daily open0.6121
 
Trends
Daily SMA200.5985
Daily SMA500.6008
Daily SMA1000.6079
Daily SMA2000.6039
 
Levels
Previous Daily High0.6141
Previous Daily Low0.6095
Previous Weekly High0.6041
Previous Weekly Low0.598
Previous Monthly High0.6079
Previous Monthly Low0.5851
Daily Fibonacci 38.2%0.6113
Daily Fibonacci 61.8%0.6123
Daily Pivot Point S10.6097
Daily Pivot Point S20.6073
Daily Pivot Point S30.6051
Daily Pivot Point R10.6143
Daily Pivot Point R20.6165
Daily Pivot Point R30.6189

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Patricio Martín

Patricio is an economist from Argentina passionate about global finance and understanding the daily movements of the markets.

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