Weekly waves: EUR/USD, XAU/USD and Bitcoin

The EUR/USD break below the support zone (dotted green), which indicated a larger bearish move rather than a bullish correction.
The BTC/USD (Bitcoin) is facing three different scenarios, which are indicated by s1, s2, and s3 (green).
Gold (XAU/USD) has made a strong bullish bounce (reversal?) at the 50% Fibonacci retracement level.

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EUR/USD bearish decline in ABC pattern

The EUR/USD break below the support zone (dotted green), which indicated a larger bearish move rather than a bullish correction:

The EUR/USD is probably building a bearish ABC (orange) pattern.
The ABC (orange) should complete a wave B (yellow) of a larger ABC (yellow).
The ABC (yellow) pattern could complete a wave 4 (pink).
Price action could fall towards the deeper Fibonacci levels or the previous bottom.
A bullish bounce could retest the resistance lines (purple) and 23.6% Fibonacci level.
A bear flag pattern (gray lines) followed by a bearish break invalidates the bullish ABC and indicates an immediate downtrend.

Bitcoin testing solid and key support

The BTC/USD (Bitcoin) is facing three different scenarios, which are indicated by s1, s2, and s3 (green):

The first scenario (s1 green) is indicating an immediate bearish breakout towards the -27.2% Fibonacci target.
The second scenario (s2 green) is indicating a retest of the resistance and then a bounce towards the same Fib target. Both s1 and s2 are part of wave C (yellow)
The third scenario (s3 green) is indicating a larger bullish retracement within a wave A (yellow) of a larger wave X (pink).
Eventually, the wave C (yellow) should complete a wave W (pink).
A larger WXY (pink) correction is expected within wave 2 (gray).

XAU/USD bullish bounce or reversal at 50% fibonacci

Gold (XAU/USD) has made a strong bullish bounce (reversal?) at the 50% Fibonacci retracement level:

The Gold bounce at the 50% Fib could confirm the end of the wave 4 (pink).
A larger wave 5 (orange) of a wave C (yellow) could have completed at the 50% Fib.
The strong bullish bounce could be a wave 1-2 (orange) of a larger wave 1 (yellow).
This bullish reversal could remain valid as long as price action stays above the bottom at the 50% Fibonacci level.

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Chris Svorcik

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Experience Chris Svorcik has co-founded Elite CurrenSea in 2014 together with Nenad Kerkez, aka Tarantula FX. Chris is a technical analyst, wave analyst, trader, writer, educator, webinar speaker, and seminar speaker of the financial markets.

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