Butterfly pattern and price targets

Butterfly Sell pattern

Weekly and Daily Pivot

The Euro

formed a butterfly sell pattern on the 5 min chart. The turn around at the 127 % butterfly sell target coincided with the 61.80 % fib retracement on the hourly chart and the weekly R1. We also see the importance of pivot points for example of the weekly and daily pivot and daily S1 and weekly R1.

Market initially moved down at 8 a.m. to find support at the weekly Pivot Point. From the weekly Pivot the Euro bounced up strongly, creating a small bull flag at around 8:45 a.m.and later the Butterfly sell pattern. 

The Butterfly pattern is a typical reversal chart pattern so that market typical retraces the preceding move after the failed breakout to the 127 % or 161 % Fibonacci extension level from the preceding Consolidation pattern at 10 a.m.. The Euro retraced back to the typical 161 % Butterfly price target, which also coincided with the 61.80 % Fibonacci retracement level of the recent swing up at around 1 p.m.at 1.29. 

The Euro consolidated above the 1.29 price level with the typical three swing consolidation before breaking temporarily through the 1.29 level (psychological level). Later in the US session the Euro has been in a choppy trading environment with the daily Pivot as the upper border and the 1.29 price level as the lower border.

5 min Butterfly Sell Pattern, Butterfly Price Target

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