A look at the day ahead in U.S. and global markets from Mike Dolan
While U.S. markets return from the Independence day holiday to assess significant cooling of the labor market stateside, British markets rallied on a long-forecast landslide for the UK’s opposition Labour Party in Thursday’s elections.
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Closed my long EU and Aussie’s this morning from last week (caught EU 1 pip from the bottom and everyone thought I was nuts going long. See a bit of a stalemate here now on this Independence Day.
If EU is going to run out of steam on an intraday basis it will likely do so here in the 0812-0820 area. If not it will target past 0850 again in likelyhood. Looking for a shift in USD bias overall today/tomorrow likely and markets wide in general around the 15th of the month
Point of control in UsdJpy is 161.40 area. It should be seen again in time, and it is likely that it goes higher in time, but it will get back to that area if so eventually in most scenarios at a minimum.
GV – July 4, 2024 at 11:41 am … Hey that isn’t fair, they told us blockchain technology was impervious to fraud by nature of design! My TikTok video lied to me. As far as currently legitimate instruments are concerned, I agree stay on the long side of Euro and especially Aussie. Aussie 6720 area if you missed getting in long last week has justifiable R/R strength for entry and EU 0790 area.
…Fears of looming selling pressure on bitcoin (BTC) from defunct exchange Mt. Gox and possible miner sales pushed the largest cryptocurrency to under $59,000 on Thursday for the first time since late April.
Mt. Gox will start distributing assets stolen from clients in a 2014 hack in July 2024, after years of postponed deadlines. The repayments will be made in bitcoin and bitcoin cash (BCH), and could add selling pressure to both markets, as previously reported….Coindesk
With USDJPY unable to test 162, a case for a pause can be made, even a top but only if 160.25 and then 160 are taken out.
As you can see by this chart, there is a long way to go to break the uptrend but at a minimum, there is a two-way risk as long as it stays below 162 with a bearish tilt if below 161.50.
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