U.S Dollar Fundamental Analysis for Fri Aug 18th, 2023The dollar index eased to around 103.2 on Friday but was still on track to advance for the fifth straight week, as minutes of the Federal Reserve’s July meeting showed that policymakers stressed that upside risks to inflation remain, leaving the door open to further policy tightening. However, some participants flagged the economic risks of pushing rates too far, emphasizing that future rate decisions would depend on incoming data. The latest data also showed that the number of Americans filing new claims for unemployment benefits fell last week, pointing to continued tightness in the labor market. The dollar is set to gain against most major currencies this week but remains down against sterling as key measures of price growth monitored by the Bank of England failed to ease in July. The yield on the 10-year Treasury slid to 4.22% on Friday after rising to as high as 4.328% in the previous session, the highest since October 2022 and just a tad below its highest level since 2007. The fluctuation is due to investor concerns about the economic impact of high interest rates. The Federal Reserve's meeting minutes from July highlighted that there are still risks of higher inflation, suggesting the possibility of more tightening of monetary policy. Despite recent data indicating a decrease in inflationary pressures, a strong US economy and a robust job market are reasons supporting the continuation of high interest rates. The average rate on a 30-year fixed mortgage jumped by 13 basis points from the previous week to 7.09%, the highest since 2002, as the hawkish outlook for the Federal Reserve underpinned expensive mortgage rates for American consumers. A year ago, the 30-year fixed mortgage rate was 5.13%. "The economy continues to do better than expected, and the 10-year Treasury yield has moved up, causing mortgage rates to climb," said Sam Khater, Freddie Mac’s Chief Economist. "The last time the 30-year fixed-rate mortgage exceeded seven percent was last November. Demand has been impacted by affordability headwinds, but low inventory remains the root cause of stalling home sales." Source: Freddie Mac
DAX Index
17082023 - #DAXYesterday, market rallied as per my level to the exact resistance () and held there for like hours before it finally faltered. TBH when US indices made a dip and rallied, DAX was rather strong and thus was expecting a possible move to the upside. But instead it just ranged and eventually faltered on FOMC meeting minutes.
With yesterday's down move, price is overextended, in terms of price action. and there is a bullish divergence on H4. IMO, bearish as it is, it is possible to try another long if market reclaims 15685 (support but now as resistance). Will be watching that level for a possible move to BZ and maximum yesterday's high near 15801 and possibly that is all for the safe upside for a possible down to 15589 next.
If market just continue to go down, 15517 is good for a long. And just to say here, yesterday's SPY option point to a possible close of SPY at 445 or even higher but we got the sell. Could w really close at 445? It all depends on today.
DAX 40 TRADE IDEADAX40 is forming a bearish trend, DAX40 close yesterday's session with less than -0.8%. We should expect more bearish movements at the open of the New York and FOMC statement.
DAX Found Support on the Megaphone's Higher Lows.DAX is on the 8th straight sideways 1D candle as it found Support on the bottom (Higher Lows trend-line) of the long-term Bullish Megaphone pattern. The 1D MA50 (blue trend-line) is the short-term Resistance while the price is trading around the 1D MA100 (green trend-line) as pivot.
We are bullish, targeting the Internal Higher Highs trend-line at 17000, as long as the Megaphone's bottom holds. The bullish extension may be even higher considering the fact that the medium-term pattern could be an Inverse Head and Shoulders (IH&S) that technically targets the 2.0 Fibonacci extension at 17400.
If however the price breaks below the Higher Lows trend-line, we will short-term sell targeting the 1D MA200 (orange trend-line) where a 1D candle close below it, would justify a bearish extension to Support 2 at 14470.
For now the trend remains bullish, as illustrated by the 1D RSI also which is on an 8-month Support Zone.
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DAX to break to the upside?GER40 - 24h expiry
A break of bespoke resistance at 16000, and the move higher is already underway.
Trading close to the psychological 16000 level.
16000 has been pivotal.
Prices have reacted from 15704.
Daily signals are bullish.
The bias is to break to the upside.
We look to Buy a break of 16013 (stop at 15913)
Our profit targets will be 16263 and 16313
Resistance: 16000 / 16100 / 16200
Support: 15900 / 15830 / 15704
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DAX40 Will Rise much more HigherAs predicted some time ago
DAX 40 broke 16300
Now....
I have marked the next levels for you
Use proper stop
European stocks rose on Thursday, and Germany's DAX 40 index climbed nearly 1% to touch its highest level since January 2022, driven by the optimism surrounding the potential breakthrough in US debt ceiling talks, with expectations that a resolution could be reached as early as the upcoming weekend. In notable corporate news, Deutsche Bank reached an agreement to pay $75 million to settle a lawsuit filed by women who alleged they were victims of abuse by the late financier Jeffrey Epstein, and accused the German bank of facilitating his sex trafficking. Meanwhile, luxury fashion brand Burberry reported a notable 16% increase in Q4 comparable store sales, while Royal Mail posted an annual adjusted operating loss of £419 million, which surpassed market expectations. Additionally, telecommunications company BT Group announced plans for up to 55,000 job cuts, despite reporting a 5% rise in full-year adjusted core earnings.
DAX40 hourly breakdownWith the DAX making all time highs and now creating new levels of support, the best we can do is work with previous levels. When an instrument is making ATH's it is difficult to chart exactly where the next level of resistance will be, as it is all untested area and it's up to the market to decide just how overbought it really is before we can move down.
Looking at the DAX40 we can see several levels of strong support that may act as resistance in the future, such as the 16332.4 level which was the resistance created 2 months ago and is now acting as current support. Should we close blow this level, there is a no trade range that would be best to avoid purely due to price action potentially catching us out.
Closure below 16267.2 would be great for sells, as there is a clean range below here and typically in the past when price has closed below this level price moves down towards 16242 and 16196.
Deutsche Bank: Strong outlook 💪 Having completed the green wave B with its high in the last week of July, Deutsche Bank is now in a small correction that will complete the orange wave ii. Once this correction is over, our primary scenario is for a strong uptrend to break through resistance at 14.63€. If the price continues to fall, our alternative will be activated. According to this scenario, to which we assign a 35% probability, the price would move into our green target zone between 8.34€ and 5.60€, from where strong gains would also be imminent.