The Australian dollar tried to rally during the trading session on Friday, but then gave back the gains as we are testing the 0.69 level. That being said, this market continues to have a lot of overhangs so it makes sense that we would get a bit of trouble.
The Australian dollar tried to rally during the trading session on Friday, but gave back the gains as we continue to see a lot of concern when it comes to the US/China situation, as it doesn’t seem like it’s going to get any better. That being the case, it’s very likely that the market is going to continue to see a lot of volatility when it comes to the Aussie as it is so highly levered to Chinese growth and of course construction.
Ultimately, the market should continue to see a lot of noise in his and quite frankly I think we are going to stay in this range that I have marked on the chart but we obviously have more of a downward bias as of late. After all, we did make a “lower low.” That being said I believe that the 0.68 level underneath is massive support, so a break down below there would probably coincide with a souring of relations between the United States and China. Ultimately, that move would probably coincide with something bad coming out of the G 20 meeting between President Trump and Xi.
If that happens, then we could look at a market going down to the 0.65 level which is a large, round, psychologically significant number, and at this point I would expect that level to offer support. Overall, I anticipate that we stay within the blue box I have on the chart but that is the alternate scenario.
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