Monday 18 April 2016

GBP/NZD getting close to some key support areas which can be the opportunity to get long.

Hi traders,

One of my favourite pairs right now is the GBP/NZD. This pair has been very slowly going lower and stopping many people which is or were believing that this was going to stop very soon. However, they had some reasons which is valid and worth a try. If we look the weekly chart, we will see that we were at the 618% and 78.6% fib from 2 different fibonacci.

When I see 2 fib levels in the same place like that, I try a small trade there because the risk is so small that its worth it. However, I think the best chart that I have for the GBP/NZD is the daily.


In the Daily chart above, we can see pretty clear that the last three moves to the downside has been very similar to each other in size. The moves to the downside has been approx. 2,160 pips.

At the current price action (right now at: 2.0424), I am waiting as I have been for the last 2 months for the GBP/NZD to reach at least 2.0260 area which will reach the same size move from those 3 down moves we had before.

My plan:

There is two options here which I can choose, do I buy around 2.0260 or should I wait for more confirmation first before buying?

The confirmation could be to wait for a break above 2.0850 which is the last major high we have right now and a break about a massive trend line which is in play since last year.
Regarding risk, I would probably put my Stop Loss at 2.0041 and a target at 2.1480. (keep in mind that this is a long term trading plan)

By Thiago Duarte
Chief Strategist at Duarte Investment Group 
thiago@duarteinvestmentgroup.com 
@thiagotrader

Friday 5 February 2016

AUD/CAD at correction period which might end soon

Hi Traders,

Here is a remind of one of my long term trades, AUDCAD: on the weekly we see that last year in November we broke a important trend line and went near 1.0200 area. However, since then we can see that this market is now correcting and *maybe* we can see a re-test of this trend line.




On the other hand, on the Daily we can see that we might be in a channel but we have a strong horizontal line at 0.9747 which will try to hold this market.



Keep in mind that this pair is on my Long Term trades for 2016, so do not expect to close this trade in less then 3 weeks. The TP for this trade will be around the 1.0300 level.

By Thiago Duarte
Chief Strategist at Duarte Investment Group 
thiago@duarteinvestmentgroup.com 
@thiagotrader

NFP report (05/02/2016)

Hi traders,

Here is my NFP report with all the levels I will be watch during the realise of the job numbers:



USDJPY: very weak and 116.00 is MASSIVE. No one out there is expecting USDJPY to break 116, but what if he does? If we look SPX we saw that for the past few sessions he is stable but USDJPY is going lower, what IF SPX starts to get weak, USDJPY will probably tamble! Resistance: 


EURUSD: very strong, the breakout of that TL I pointed out few days ago was MASSIVE. I am a buyer and any drop to 1.11 or even 1.10 is a opportunity to buy in my opinion. However, keep in mind that we have 61.8% at 1276 and some resistance at 1.1300.

USDCHF: very simular to the EURUSD, we are very close to support around 9886 which also has the 78.6% fib close too which we had that spike there. However, in the LONG TERM: I think we can reach 9792.

USDCAD: pretty close to that TL and 61.8% which I believe its a good buy for the long term to 1.5000 (Very long term trade). So keep an eye on 1.3541 today.

NZDUSD: very clear levels here, support at the 61,8% which is 6677 and resistance at the 78.6% fib at 6768. However, do not forget that I think this market is in a range in the long term between 6900 and 6400.

DXY: We are in a important trend line here, if we break (and close!) I think we can go back to 93.00 zone. 

DAX: very close to support at 9250. IF indices gets weak and EURUSD goes higher, DAX has a great chance to break that support today.

GBPUSD: look at 4445 for support.


Trades: I have just stablished a very SMALL long on EURUSD and SMALL short USDJPY! 

By Thiago Duarte
Chief Strategist at Duarte Investment Group 
thiago@duarteinvestmentgroup.com 
@thiagotrader