EUR/GBP’s rise from 0.8312 resumed last week and breached 0.8851 resistance. Initial bias remains on the upside this week first. Firm break of 0.8851 will pave the way to retest 0.9304 high. At this point, there is no clear sign up larger up trend resumption yet. Hence, we’ll be cautious on topping around 0.9304. On the downside, however, break of 0.8639 support will now indicate near term topping and bring deeper pull back to 55 day EMA (now at 0.8584) and below.
In the bigger picture, price actions from 0.9304 are viewed as a medium term corrective pattern. The leg from 0.9304 should have completed after testing 0.8332 structural support. But it’s too early to say that larger rise from 0.6935 is resuming. Rejection from 0.9304 will extend the consolidation with another falling leg. Meanwhile, firm break of 0.9304 will target 0.9799 (2008 high). In case of another decline, we’d expect strong support from 0.8116 cluster support (50% retracement of 0.6935 to 0.9304 at 0.8120) to contain downside and bring rebound.
In the long term picture, firstly, price action from 0.9799 (2008 high) is seen as a long term corrective pattern and should have completed at 0.6935 (2015 low). Secondly, rise from 0.6935 is likely resuming up trend from 0.5680 (2000 low). Thirdly, this is supported by the impulsive structure of the rise from 0.6935 to 0.9304. Hence, after the correction from 0.9304 completes, we’d expect another medium term up trend to target 0.9799 high and above.
