EUR/USD is holding steady – Commerzbank

Karen Jones, analyst at Commerzbank, suggests that EUR/USD is holding steady having recently recovered from the base of the weekly channel at 1.0892 currently.

Key Quotes

“We have 13 counts on the daily and weekly charts and suspect that the market is attempting to base near term. It will need to close above the 4 month downtrend at 1.1022 to confirm that stance and alleviate downside pressure. This would trigger recovery to the mid September high at 1.1110.”

“A close above here would confirm a bottoming formation and put the 200 day ma at 1.12xx back on the cards.”

“Below 1.0879 we have the January 2017 low at 1.0829 and the 78.6% Fibonacci retracement of the 2017-2018 advance at 1.0814.”