USD/CAD Price Analysis: Bears line up for their discounts
|- USD/CAD bulls run into a wall of resistance and the bears are lurking, hungry for a discount.
- USD/CAD bears need to break 1.27 the figure for a bearish structure to really take shape.
USD/CAD is forming the makings of a bearish outlook despite the hawkish Federal Reserve. The price has run higher in the bullish correction of the bearish daily impulse, but should the bears engage at a discount, then the focus will be on a break to the downside as follows:
USD/CAD daily charts
The price, in doing so, will have completed a head and shoulders as follows:
USD/CAD H&S
The head and shoulders is a topping formation, so the price would be expected to run significantly lower on a break and retest of the neckline near 1.2630.
1.2520 will be earmarked as per the dynamic trendline support:
USD/CAD 4-hour chart
The bears would be prudent to wait to engage on a retest of the 4-hour support just below 1.27 the figure that would be expected to act as a resistance on a break thereof.
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