EUR/USD Daily Update, Thu 07, July 2011
Good morning,
due to Portugal downgrading market has shown solid plunge. So, we can't speak about entering long currently. Still, on daily time frame bullish bias has not been cancelled totally - market at Fib support and MACDP comes in play today.
Tomorrow we will see NFP release and situation again could twist from top to bottom. Weekly chart tells the same, since it shows picture telling that upward is more probable than downward.
That's why I do not trust much to current sell-off.
Since tommorow will be important data, it's better to focus on short term trades, so that our positions do not hurt from tommorow's turmoil.
On 4-hour chart we see, that market accelerates right to 1.0 target and turns to retracement. Usually after such kind of price action market makes 50%-61.8% retracement from last swing down. 61.8 - is 1.4350 area - weekly pivot and Confluence resistance.
The next target is 1.42 area - pivot support 1 at 1.618 target.
On hourly chart we see, that market could show AB=CD retracement with the 1.0 target At Agreement with 50% resistance. We can't exclude that market could try to retest pivot from downside, but for bearish bias it should not return back in the range of upward retracement above 1.4360
So plan is simple. Keep an eye on development of this retracement. If market will reach 1.4350-1.4370 drop to 5-min chart and watch for Sell signals. Enter short with stop around 1.4380-1.4390 target 1.42.
As you can see, this trade with very tight stop, although risk exists.
The second approach - do nothing, and wait NFP data.