The Euro ETF has moved a bit higher than we anticipated in our June 16 post, but bears have a strong chance of countering the rally and taking price to new lows. In fact, the pattern qualifies even better as a nearly completed correction now than it did in June.
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On the monthly chart for the CurrencyShares Euro ETF (NYSEARCA:FXE), price is on the verge of testing the channel boundary – a classic characteristic of Elliott fourth-waves. Nearby are two Fibonacci resistance levels at 114.81 and 115.61, each calculated by a different method – extension and retracement.
If wave (iv) is nearly complete, as we believe, then FXE should soon commence a fifth wave decline that will eventually reach beneath the areas tested at the start of the 2017. The absolute limit for a rally in this bearish scenario is where downward wave (i) found support five years ago at 119.73.
In addition to the chart above, there is a bullish alternate scenario we’re following that would allow the present rally to be the first part of a larger impulsive wave upward. One development that would move that scenario to the forefront would be for FXE to break above the 119.73 limit shown above. Another possibility for a bullish scenario would be for price to find resistance above the major channel boundary and then drift down to make a higher low sometime in 2018.
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