The 100-day SMA is at 1.0355. Why do I care about the 100-day SMA? Because it has served as a floor for prices the last two days so it offers some validation of support in this area.
The high yesterday was only 1.0463, lower than Wednesday's 1.0572. The conclusion one could reach is that there's no hope this pair can get going in a sustained uptrend. This may be true for the near term; it may be true for longer than that. But a look at the weekly shows higher lows since 2007. The pair needs to drop below .9990 for this uptrend line to be violated. Not that it can't do that but then one could draw another line at the new low, ha-ha. The uneasy fact remains that until the pair drops below the Nov. '07 .9058 low, the secular downtrend is at least on hold and quite possibly over. Offsetting this is that the retracement from the 1.3065 high in Mar. '09 has been deep which hints the underlying uptrend is weak. If you see that decline as an Elliott Wave two, however, one would expect it to be deep since they often retrace almost all of wave one. What's also significant to me is that momentum, reflected by RSI, is looking pretty good, not dropping into oversold areas by any means and is, in fact, maintaining a nice upward trajectory.
If you place your short-term trading within a longer-term context (as I do), this would suggest that buying pullbacks is the way to go. Always, though, carefully and with tight stops. Canadian employment numbers are coming out at 7AM EST and the US NFP at 8:30AM EST so there may be some gyrations in price this morning.
Resistance is at 1.0375/95, 1.0463, 1.0573/81 (strong), 1.0610, 1.0719 and 1.0855. Support is at 1.0348, 1.0334/27, 1.0305, 1.0283/75, 1.0150, 1.0100 and 1.0045.
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