{"id":30973,"date":"2012-07-20T08:02:18","date_gmt":"2012-07-20T12:02:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/countingpips.com\/forex-news\/?p=30973"},"modified":"2012-07-20T08:02:18","modified_gmt":"2012-07-20T12:02:18","slug":"eurusd-is-stuck-in-an-ascending-triangle-is-a-breakout-imminent","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/forex-news\/2012\/07\/20\/eurusd-is-stuck-in-an-ascending-triangle-is-a-breakout-imminent\/","title":{"rendered":"EUR\/USD is stuck in an ascending triangle, is a breakout imminent?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><!--[if gte mso 9]&gt;--><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><strong>Introduction<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><!--[if gte mso 9]&gt;--><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><a title=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/www.pipstoday.com\/tag\/eurusd\/\" target=\"\">EUR\/USD<\/a> has teased the resistance level at 1.2310 a number<br \/>\nof times, but it has been unable to break it. At the same time, it has been<br \/>\nforming a slope of higher lows. As a result, the common currency has formed a<br \/>\nnice-looking ascending triangle pattern.<\/p>\n<p><!--[if gte mso 9]&gt;--><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><strong>Factors Affecting<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><!--[if gte mso 9]&gt;--><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">It seems the euro zone debt problems have not raised their<br \/>\nugly head in the market for sometime now. Today, the current account from the<br \/>\neuro zone gave a reading of 10.9B against a projected value of 5.3B. As a<br \/>\nresult, this positive data made the demand of the euro to rise in the market.<br \/>\nNonetheless, traders are still keen on any news updates about the euro zone<br \/>\ndebt situation.<\/p>\n<p><!--[if gte mso 9]&gt;--><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><strong>Technical Analysis<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><!--[if gte mso 9]&gt;--><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">Technical analysis on the EUR\/USD reveals it is has formed<br \/>\nan ascending <a title=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/www.pipstoday.com\/2012\/05\/trade-chart-patterns\/\" target=\"\">triangle pattern<\/a>. If the pair convincingly breaks out of the<br \/>\npattern to the downside, it may drop to the support level at 1.2170. On the<br \/>\nother hand, if the pair convincingly breaks out of the pattern to the upside,<br \/>\nit may test the resistance level at 1.2370.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/i.imgur.com\/MSqx2.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"643\" \/><\/p>\n<p><!--[if gte mso 9]&gt;--><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 115%;\">Forecast<br \/>\n<\/span><\/strong><!--[if gte mso 9]&gt;--><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">Currently, the pair is on a downtrend in the short term.<br \/>\nTherefore, aggressive traders should just wait for further confirmation before<br \/>\ngoing short on the pair.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">To read more from <a title=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/ezinearticles.com\/?expert=Shawn_Sofo_James\" target=\"\">Shawn James<\/a> subscribe to <a title=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/www.pipstoday.com\/\" target=\"\">pipstoday<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Introduction EUR\/USD has teased the resistance level at 1.2310 a number of times, but it has been unable to break it. At the same time, it has been forming a slope of higher lows. As a result, the common currency has formed a nice-looking ascending triangle pattern. &nbsp; Factors Affecting It seems the euro zone &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/forex-news\/2012\/07\/20\/eurusd-is-stuck-in-an-ascending-triangle-is-a-breakout-imminent\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;EUR\/USD is stuck in an ascending triangle, is a breakout imminent?&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-30973","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/forex-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30973","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/forex-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/forex-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/forex-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/forex-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30973"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/forex-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30973\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/forex-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30973"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/forex-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30973"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/forex-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30973"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}