{"id":169986,"date":"2020-05-05T08:35:24","date_gmt":"2020-05-05T12:35:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.countingpips.com\/?p=169986"},"modified":"2020-05-05T07:28:16","modified_gmt":"2020-05-05T11:28:16","slug":"sterling-slips-back-below-1-2485-after-rally-fizzles-out","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/forex\/2020\/05\/sterling-slips-back-below-1-2485-after-rally-fizzles-out\/","title":{"rendered":"Sterling Slips Back Below 1.2485 After Rally Fizzles Out"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"inves-2661873972\" class=\"inves-below-title-posts inves-entity-placement\"><div id =\"posts_date_custom\"><div align=\"left\">May 5, 2020<\/div><hr style=\"border: none; border-bottom: 3px solid black;\">\r\n<\/div><\/div><p><strong>By <\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.orbex.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong>Orbex<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.countingpips.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/GBPUSD-0505-750x430-1.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-170007\" src=\"https:\/\/www.countingpips.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/GBPUSD-0505-750x430-1.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"750\" height=\"430\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/forex\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/GBPUSD-0505-750x430-1.png 750w, https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/forex\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/GBPUSD-0505-750x430-1-160x92.png 160w, https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/forex\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/GBPUSD-0505-750x430-1-150x86.png 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 750px) 100vw, 750px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The British pound sterling is back on the downside. The declines come as price action failed to capitalize on the bullish momentum from last week.<\/p>\n<p>GBP rose to 1.2642 highs before giving up the gains. Shy of the upside target of 1.2686, the currency pair failed to establish support at 1.2485.<\/p>\n<p>This has now pushed GBPUSD back into the range between 1.2485 and 1.2277.<\/p>\n<p>We expect the consolidation to continue within these levels in the near term.<\/p>\n<p>However, with the Stochastics hinting at a possible hidden divergence, we could see the upper end of the range at 1.2485 being tested.<\/p><div id=\"inves-904920861\" class=\"inves-in-content inves-entity-placement\"><hr style=\"border: 1px solid #ddd;\">\r\n<div id=\"inpost_ads_header\">\r\n<p style=\"font-size:10px; float:left; color:#666;\">Free Reports:<\/p><\/div>\r\n<div id=\"inpost_ads\"> \r\n<p style=\"font-size:15px; float:left;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/goo.gl\/1ApBOV\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/investmacro.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/graph_techs_PD.png\" align=\"left\" width=\"80\"  height=\"55\"\/><\/a>\r\n\t     <a href=\"https:\/\/goo.gl\/1ApBOV\"><b><u>Get Our Free Metatrader 4 Indicators<\/u><\/b><\/a> - Put Our Free MetaTrader 4 Custom Indicators on your charts when you join our Weekly Newsletter<\/p><br><br>\r\n<br>\r\n<br>\r\n<p style=\"font-size:15px; float:left;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/goo.gl\/f3RrHX\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/investmacro.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/cot_pie_80.png\" align=\"left\" width=\"80\"  height=\"55\"\/><\/a>\r\n\t    <a href=\"https:\/\/goo.gl\/f3RrHX\"><b><u>Get our Weekly Commitment of Traders Reports<\/u><\/b><\/a> - See where the biggest traders (Hedge Funds and Commercial Hedgers) are positioned in the futures markets on a weekly basis.<\/p><br><br>\r\n<\/div>\r\n<hr style=\"border: 1px solid #ddd;\">\r\n<br><\/div>\n<p><strong>By <\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.orbex.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong>Orbex<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Orbex The British pound sterling is back on the downside. The declines come as price action failed to capitalize on the bullish momentum from last week. GBP rose to 1.2642 highs before giving up the gains. Shy of the upside target of 1.2686, the currency pair failed to establish support at 1.2485. This has [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-169986","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","no-post-thumbnail"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/forex\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/169986","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\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/forex\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=169986"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/forex\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/169986\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":170009,"href":"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/forex\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/169986\/revisions\/170009"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/forex\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=169986"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/forex\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=169986"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/forex\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=169986"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}