Thursday 18 April 2019
A mixed bag as we head into the Easter week-end break for many markets. Weaker Eurozone PMI data has seen the Euro retreat this morning with Yen buying also notable with EURJPY and GBPJPY helping USDJPY to cap once again. The Pound continues on the back foot as we wait on the Brexit bs to resume next week and with oil and equities generally lower too we've seen some risk-off sentiment return.
GBPUSD has now fallen through 1.3020-30 to post lows of 1.3011 before rallying to 1.3032 on better UK retail sales data for March while EURGBP has fallen now on the Euro supply post-PMIs.
I remain GBP bearish overall and continue to rally-sell as my preferred strategy and buy back in the dips amid the Brexit chaos. Plenty more to come now in the weeks ahead and the algos will continue to feed off the headlines. No change to this paragraph any time soon.
EURUSD has finally given up on 1.1300 and fallen to lows of 1.1243 post-PMIs but good buying interest down at 1.1225 and 1.1200. USDJPY looks underpinned into 111.65 but rally sellers still poised around 112.00 as we've been seeing again. USDCHF remains underpinned helped by the EURUSD retreat and EURCHF continues to find dip support. with the SNB ever-watchful.
AUDUSD remains underpinned around 0.7150 but sellers around 0.7200 prevailing atm. Large options rolling off today at 0.7175. USDCAD has moved higher again helped by softer oil prices to weaken the Canadian $.
Fickle Forex markets ever prevailing so be ready with your entry/exit levels and orders as always.
I wish you good trading and I hope my updates/tweets are helping.Let's continue to be careful out there and don't get greedy. I will update tomorrow before I head away to Walsall for football amid the long Easter week-end and then hopefully post something on Monday
Have a good day out out there one and all.
Interbank Rate 08.40 BST
GBPUSD 1.3021
EURUSD 1.1257
EURGBP 0.8646
GBPEUR 1.1564
GBPAUD 1.8170
GBPCAD 1.7401
GBPZAR 18.3170
GBPHKD 10.0952
USDJPY 111.80
USDZAR 14.0742
EURJPY 125.82
GBPJPY 145.52
AUDUSD 0.7165
EURCHF 1.1373
EURHKD 8.7298
USDCAD 1.3368
USDCHF 1.0101
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