Tuesday 18 August 2009

Price Action Remains Extremely Choppy; GBP/USD Commentary (Midday Snapshot)

MIDDAY SNAPSHOT & ANALYSIS OF SELECTED RATES

The qualifying capableness in Sterling on weekday persists into the author Fix with the azygos currency benefiting greatly from the inflation accumulation damper and resurgence in venture buying.  Much of the farewell US conference was dominated by stop hunting in spec accounts caught long USDs, with Russian, Middle Eastern and US assets accounts all onerous buyers of currencies and sellers of USD and Yen. Also seen bolstering venture appetite were comments from the IMF that a global feat was underway. Elsewhere, SNB Jordan was on the wires saying that bicentric bank was bright with Eur/Chf at underway levels and cited the constructive impact the mercantilism evaluate was having on the economy. US producer prices were softer than expected, while structure starts and building permits were also weaker. US equities are substantially bid on the day, while commodities are also higher.  ANALYSIS OF SELECTED RATES .00001GBPMIDDAY5.18 Gbp/Usd: Although Monday’s bearish toll state has today been totally negated, we retain our bearish looking and module look to verify plus of the choppy market conditions to establish a firm short change on Tuesday. Hourly studies are today looking substantially overbought and the market has also exceeded its daily average genuine range of 200 points. There is a confluence of status by 1.6580 in the modify of the 10/20-Day SMAs, and 78.6% taradiddle retrace off of the past 1.6665-1.6275 move, and as much we module look to verify plus and sell on a push into this confluence.  STRATEGY: SELL @1.6580 FOR AN OPEN OBJECTIVE, STOP @1.6780.  RECOMMENDATION TO BE REMOVED IF NOT TRIGGERED BY NY CLOSE (5PM ET) ON TUESDAY.

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