{"id":149836,"date":"2019-06-18T07:15:59","date_gmt":"2019-06-18T11:15:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.countingpips.com\/?p=149836"},"modified":"2019-06-18T06:35:43","modified_gmt":"2019-06-18T10:35:43","slug":"eurusd-trying-to-gain-a-foothold-at-the-balance-line","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/forex\/2019\/06\/eurusd-trying-to-gain-a-foothold-at-the-balance-line\/","title":{"rendered":"EURUSD: trying to gain a foothold at the balance line"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"inves-4203312974\" class=\"inves-below-title-posts inves-entity-placement\"><div id =\"posts_date_custom\"><div align=\"left\">June 18, 2019<\/div><hr style=\"border: none; border-bottom: 3px solid black;\">\r\n<\/div><\/div><p><strong>By <a href=\"https:\/\/alpari.com\">Alpari.com<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<div class=\"-cms-content analytics-reviews-category-review-article__review\">\n<div>\n<p><strong><em>Previous:<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>On Monday, trading on the euro closed slightly up. Following Friday\u2019s drop, the pair corrected to 1.1247 during yesterday\u2019s European session. Sales recommenced from the balance line. This was to be expected, as the MA channels indicated a new bearish trend.<\/p>\n<p>Market activity was low as traders began turning their attention towards the FOMC meeting, which begins today. The regulator could drop some hints as to when they will lower interest rates. Markets have already factored in a rate slash at the end of the year, but it could come sooner than expected.<\/p>\n<p><strong><em>Day\u2019s news (GMT+3):<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>12:00 Germany: ZEW survey \u2013 economic sentiment (Jun).<\/li>\n<li>12:00 Eurozone: ZEW survey \u2013 economic sentiment (Jun), trade balance (Apr), CPI (May).<\/li>\n<li>15:30 Canada: manufacturing shipments (Apr).<\/li>\n<li>15:30 US: building permits (May), housing starts (May).<\/li>\n<li>17:00 UK: BoE\u2019s Governor Carney speech.<\/li>\n<li>17:00 Eurozone: ECB\u2019s President Draghi speech.<\/li>\n<li>23:30 US: API weekly crude oil stock (14 Jun).<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/alpari.com\/storage\/inline-images\/eur_180619_0.png\" alt=\"EURUSD H1\" data-entity-type=\"file\" data-entity-uuid=\"4b8908d3-6d35-4a37-8a6c-f1cc0c732503\" \/><strong><em>Current situation:<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Yesterday\u2019s expectations were met in full. The pair recovered to the LB balance line (SMA with a period of 55). After dropping to 1.1214, the pair again returned to the trend line (started from the 1.1344 high).<\/p>\n<p>At the time of writing, the euro is trading at 1.1234. Since the euro crosses are trading up, and the stochastic is in the sell zone, I\u2019m expecting to see a breakout of the trend line, with the pair subsequently being dragged to 1.1250, followed by a drop to the lower boundary of the horizontal channel. The Fed will make an interest rate decision on Wednesday, so the rate is unlikely to stray far from 1.1235. I think the pair will keep trading within the blue channel shown on the chart.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><strong>By <a href=\"https:\/\/alpari.com\">Alpari.com<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Alpari.com Previous: On Monday, trading on the euro closed slightly up. Following Friday\u2019s drop, the pair corrected to 1.1247 during yesterday\u2019s European session. Sales recommenced from the balance line. This was to be expected, as the MA channels indicated a new bearish trend. Market activity was low as traders began turning their attention towards [&hellip;]<\/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-149836","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","no-post-thumbnail"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/forex\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/149836","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/forex\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/forex\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/forex\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/forex\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=149836"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/forex\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/149836\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":149837,"href":"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/forex\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/149836\/revisions\/149837"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/forex\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=149836"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/forex\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=149836"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/forex\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=149836"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}