- GBP/USD extends its features to 2 straight weeks, features some 1.49%.
- From a each day chart perspective, the GBP/USD continues to be downward biased, dealing with stable resistance round 1.2200.
- GBP/USD Price Analysis: Unless buyers reclaim 1.2245, the pair stays tilted downwards.
The British pound completed the week on the appropriate foot and recorded its second consecutive week within the inexperienced; it printed stable features of 1.49%, amidst an upbeat market temper, portrayed by US equities closing larger on Friday. In the FX area, the GBP/USD is buying and selling at 1.2170, 0.05% down, throughout the North American session.
GBP/USD Price Analysis: Technical outlook
The GBP/USD continues to be neutral-to-downward biased, trapped throughout the 50 and 20-day EMAs, as depicted by the each day chart. Worth noting that earlier within the European session, GBP/USD buyers broke above the 50-day EMA however couldn’t maintain the fort, and the pound tumbled in direction of and hit its each day low at 1.2062 earlier than rebounding in direction of present worth ranges.
If GBP/USD buyers need to regain management, they need to reclaim 1.2300; in any other case, sellers stay in cost.
GBP/USD 1-hour chart
In the close to time period, the GBP/USD is neutral-upwards biased. Since July 14, after reaching a each day low at 1.1759, the key started trending larger, inside a 200-pip width ascending channel, which put a lid on Friday’s rally round 1.2245, proper at the highest of the channel. Even although the GBP/USD plunged in direction of 1.2065, the S1 pivot level cable recovered some floor and is buying and selling above the confluence of all of the hourly EMAs and the each day pivot.
Therefore, the GBP/USD first resistance can be the R1 each day pivot at 1.2210. Break above will expose the top-trendline of the ascending channel round 1.2245, adopted by the 1.2300 determine. On the flip facet, if the GBP/USD falls beneath the ascending channel mid-line round 1.2150, it should ship the pair sliding in direction of the bottom-trendline of the channel at round 1.2050-60.
GBP/USD Key Technical Levels