USD/CAD Price Analysis: Weekly 38.2% Fibo reached

USD/CAD runs hard into support territory on the weekly and daily time frames.
Bulls could be looking for an entry should the price start to correct and eye 1.2750.

Ross J Burland FXStreet

USD/CAD has dropped this week all the way to the 38.2% Fibonacci retracement of the prior bullish impulse. Moving into the daily time frame, the area has been a significant zone for where transactions took place and it could therefore be expected to act as a support. The following illustrates the price action and confluences of technical influences that could lead to a correction towards 1.2750 in the coming days.

USD/CAD weekly chart

The daily chart illustrates the support more clearly and a correction from here could target a 50% mean reversion near 1.2740 in the coming days:

USD/CAD daily chart

The expected resistance zone also has the 10-EMA in confluence which would be expected to reinforce that area on initial tests.

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Ross J Burland

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Ross J Burland, born in England, UK, is a sportsman at heart. He played Rugby and Judo for his county, Kent and the South East of England Rugby team.

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