Foreign Exchange

Following its worst session in 20 weeks yesterday, volatility on USD/JPY has not gone unnoticed. After crashing down to the March trendline, the cross is clearly sensitive to the rout in bonds and headlines surrounding trade. Yet, whilst this could allow for some whipsaws over the coming session/s, we’re keeping a close eye on developing […]

A 6% rally in less than two weeks is clearly a victory for S&P bulls but with key resistance now close overhead, risk reward may now be swinging back towards the bears. It’ still touch and go as to whether we’re seeing a volatile top play out or if this is the beginning of a volatile recovery. But […]

Markets have all but come to a halt ahead of this year’s G20 summit, where eyes firmly fixated on the Trump-Xi meeting, as it could mark the difference between risk-on and risk-off next week. It’s likely that larger market moves could materialise if Trump and Xi fail to reach an agreement on trade. That said, market could […]

With its repeated failure to break key support levels along with a favourable seasonal phase through December, we see potential for EUR/USD to carve out a low. Faraday Research offers real time FX and Equity trade signals from qualified analysts. Click here to try us free.

Among the large US indices, the Nasdaq 100 has fallen the furthest from its highs. However, we’re starting to see signs that the tech benchmark could be oversold. We can see on the weekly chart that, having fallen over 15% from its highs, the Nasdaq is now within its second worst drawdown since the Nasdaq bubble […]

After we highlighted $1200 as a pivotal level for gold, the shiny yellow metal has bounced above this key level to show bulls still appear intent on carving out a bottom on gold. As it turns out, the actual low on the daily chart was 1196.39, although price action remained above 1200 for November’s low on a […]

It wouldn’t be a market correction without comparisons to prior market tops. So, today we compare the S&P500 price action to its three previous bear markets. The following chart rebases the S&P500 from previous market tops, which enables us to compare these historic periods to see if current price action tracks it in real-time. So […]

By some measures, oil’s rout may not be over, and this could well be the catalyst that sends USD/CAD above its 2018 highs. Faraday Research offers real time FX and Equity trade signals from qualified analysts. Click here to try us free.

One by one FX majors point towards a broader USD reversal, with the Swiss franc now coming onto our radar. We can see on the weekly chart that USD/CHF has had a tough time above parity since October 2017. That’s not to say it hasn’t tried to hold above it, yet each time it has broken above […]

We take a look at the daily chart of EUR/USD, GBP/USD and AUD/USD to highlight key levels for the week ahead.                       Faraday Research offers real time FX and Equity trade signals from qualified analysts. Click here to try us free.