Importance of the 200 SMA

EURUSD Technical Chart Analysis 

The 200 Simple Moving Average

The Euro

found resistance at the downward sloping 200 SMA (Simple Moving Average) and support at the daily S1 after market took out the stops and triggered the breakout limit orders below the recent low on the left side of the chart (blue line). After the Stop Run - Market Manipulation - got accomplished there was "nothing" to hold back the Euro from rising upwards. The resistance of the recent low (blue line) and the 20 SMA (purple line) got respected and broken with the beginning of the new hourly candle (Breakout Timing). For example market closed at the 20 SMA resistance with a strong candle and the EUR/USD broke through this resistance level with the beginning of the new hourly candle at 8 a.m. on the 1st October.

In general, the 200 SMA is often acting as support/ resistance and the 200 SMA shows the larger trend direction if the SMA, particularly when this Simple Moving Average is strongly sloping. Otherwise, the 200 SMA indicates a sideways range bounded market when the 200 SMA is more flat than sloping.

1 hour 200 SMA

Weekly Euro USD Analysis

Price Reversal

Triangle Consolidation

The weekly EURUSD Chart

shows the striking monthly low of January 2012. The Euro is currently trading at this striking low combined with the down sloping weekly 20 Simple Moving Average (SMA), which both is likely to act as resistance.

Weekly EUR/USD Chart Analysis

On the 1 hour chart we see the recent price breakout to the upside out of the large triangle consolidation pattern. The EUR/USD price moved up to the first butterfly sell target (127 %), which coincides with the daily R3 and monthly R1 Pivot Point resistance.



The confirmation of the butterfly pattern would implicate a larger price reversal below the recent triangle consolidation pattern. Thus, the prior market price breakout through the upside would get completely reversed - failed breakout. The price target of the butterfly sell chart pattern is normally the 161 % Fibonacci target - see popular chart patterns.

1 hour Butterfly pattern, Triangle Breakout 

The 5 min chart below shows the price reversal at the resistance level. The failed price breakout candles might be seen as a evening star pattern. After the initial price reversal market created a typical three wave consolidation pattern and later a small bear flag before the Euro continued the downtrend to catch the stop orders below the recent striking low - Stop Running. Often a small price retracement occurs after the penetration of an important chart level like the recent striking low to catch also some stops of the breakout traders.

5 min False Breakouts