Economic Calendar Analysis
The rate could move due to the FOMC Meeting Minutes on Wednesday at 18:00 GMT. The pair has moved from 6.2 to 10.2 pips on the release.
On Friday, the French Flash Services PMI and Flash Manufacturing PMI at 07:15 GMT are bound to move the pair, as the release had moved the pair from 9.0 till 15.0 since December.
The German Flash Services PMI and Flash Manufacturing PMI are set to come out right after at 07:30 GMT. The EUR/USD currency exchange has moved from 6.8 till 41.5 during the last five months.
Later on that day, the Euro Zone Flash Services PMI and Flash Manufacturing PMI will be released. The pair has moved from 4.2 till 13.0 since January.
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EUR/USD hourly chart's review
In the near term future, the pair was expected to surge, as it had no technical resistance as high as the 1.2257 level, where the weekly R2 simple pivot point was located at.However, take into account that round exchange rate levels could slow down the surge. That is considered as possible due to the 1.2220 level appearing to have started to provide resistance at 09:00 GMT.
Hourly Chart
EUR/USD daily chart's review
On Friday, the rate has passed the April high level. It can be observed that the next resistance for the rate on the chart is the February high level just below the 1.2250 mark.In the meantime, it was spotted that the 100-day simple moving average was strengthening the support of the 1.2050. However, its impact is questionable due to the SMA failing to impact the rate since the middle of April.
Daily chart
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Sentiment changes
Since Wednesday, on the Swiss Foreign Exchange trader open positions were short, as 62% of open position volume was in short positions.
On Tuesday, 64% of volume was short.
In the meantime, trader set up pending orders in the 100-pip range around the pair were 68% to sell the pair.