Weekly Price Action Trade Ideas – 18th Dec 2018

Markets Discussed Today: AUDUSD, GBPUSD, GOLD and BITCOIN

 

GBPUSD Daily Chart

Price Breaks Out and Re-Tests With Inside Bar

Before last week’s summary we had not discussed the GBPUSD for quite some time. The reason for that is simply because price had not been doing a whole heap other than moving sideways.

Leading into last week’s summary we could see price looking to test the major support level. This was off the back of price winding up and then forming an inside bar.

Before going into the sideways movement and prolonged consolidation, price had been trading heavily lower. Since that movement lower there had been no signs of a reversal or trend back higher.

Below I discuss price action in the Gold market and how we have been watching the reversal from the down-trend occur over the last few weeks. We had not seen that sort of bottom and reversal here, leading to another breakout, re-test and now inside bar just under the old support and potential new resistance level.

Daily Chart

Daily Chart

 

AUDUSD Daily Chart

Move Lower From BEEB Into Crucial Support

This is another market we discussed last week, this time price forming a false break of the resistance level with a large Bearish Engulfing Bar = BEEB.

Price sold lower from the BEEB and has now moved into a crucial price flip support level.

This level has proven itself as a solid support and resistance level in recent times. We can see on the chart below; price has halted and formed a very small inside bar showing there is some indecision at this level.

If price breaks lower, then it could move quickly into the major lows. However; a bounce higher and it would not surprise to see consolidation and ranging price action with potential breakout plays at the major resistance.

Daily Chart

 

Gold Daily & 12 Hour Charts

New Momentum In Play

Whilst it was a struggle, price has broken through the key resistance.

Price in this market has sold off lower for a large chunk of this year and has slowly fought back towards the back-end.

As is so often the case; trends and momentum do not just turn around in one candle. Price needs to build, shake out the last of the buyers/sellers and build momentum in the opposite direction.

Trends will often continue because after a small retracement, fresh buyers or sellers will enter and regain control.

As we can see here; after a strong move lower on the daily chart, price formed a base low where price consolidated sideways. Price tried to push higher, was rejected when fresh sellers came in, and has now regained momentum by breaking the resistance and forming a new higher high.

We can also see on the 12 hour chart price formed a breakout of the major daily level and quick re-test pin bar reversal.

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Daily Chart

12 Hour Chart

 

Bitcoin Daily Chart

VBRN Could Now be Tested

We have been discussing price action and the major levels in the Bitcoin market regularly of late.

After a long period of nothing much interesting happening and waiting for price to break the Very Big Round Number = VBRN 6000 discussed in the October trade ideas summary, price slammed lower.

As we posted in the Nov 20th Summary we were looking to see if price could move into the next VBRN of 3000.

Price at this stage is hovering just above this level and consolidating. This level looks crucial to where price moves next.

A break lower and we could see another large sell off to around the 2100 level.

Daily Chart

Daily Chart

 

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