EUR/USD awaits NFP

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Source: Dukascopy Bank SA
The 55– hour simple moving average provided resistance for the EUR/USD currency pair on Thursday. As a result, the common European currency declined by 32 pips or 0.27% against the US Dollar during Thursday's trading session.

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The week will end with the Friday's release of the US employment data at 12:30 GMT. The event consists of the release of the US Average Hourly Earnings, US Non-farm Employment Change and US Unemployment Rate.

The rate has moved from 20.2 to 75.1 pips on the announcement.

Click on the link below to find out more about the data releases of this and other currency exchange rates.


EUR/USD hourly chart's review

All things being equal, the exchange rate is likely to continue to edge lower during the following trading session. The potential target for sellers will be near the weekly S1 at 1.1788.

However, the currency exchange rate might encounter support near the 1.1800 level within this session.

Hourly Chart

EUR/USD daily chart's review

On the daily candle chart, it can be observed that since June the rate has been finding resistance in the 1.1900 and 1.1950 levels. Meanwhile, the 1.2000 mark is surrounded by technical resistance levels like the three daily simple moving averages and a 23.60% Fibonacci retracement level.

In regards to support, the 1.1750 level has been marked as support, as it is clear that it managed to reverse the June and July decline of the currency exchange rate.

Daily chart




Traders are long

On Thursday, on the Swiss Foreign Exchange traders, open positions were long, as 53% of open position volume was in long positions.

On Friday, the market sentiment was still at 55% long.

Meanwhile, traders set up pending orders in the 100-pip range around the pair was 61% to buy the EUR/USD currency pair and 39% to sell.

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