AUD/USD Price Recap

AUD/USD is down 226 pips (3.76%) since yesterday (with its current price near 0.57701), marking the 8th day in a row it has gone down. The price move occurred on stronger volume, as measured by the number of tick price changes; specifically, yesterday’s volume was up 24.41% from the day prior, and up 24.02% from the same day the week before. On a relative basis, AUD/USD was the worst performer out of all 40 of the assets in the Forex asset class. Visually, we could say…

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Okay, okay, you know we have trouble resisting the memes around here Getting back to business, here is a price chart of AUD/USD.

AUD/USD Technical Analysis

Trend traders will want to observe that the strongest trend appears on the 14 day horizon; over that time period, price has been moving down. Or to simplify this another way, note that out of the past 10 days AUD/USD’s price has gone down 9 them.

The View From Around the Web

Of note is that traders in aggregate have opinions on Audusd, with 20 buy signals on our radar and 13 sell signals. This imputes a buy/sell ratio of 1.54, which is bullish. As for the rationale, technical traders seem to be citing the appearance of channel and relative strength index technical patterns. Here’s a piece we found on dailyfx.com; below is a short snippet from it to give you a taste.

AUD/USD takes out the 2008 low (0.6006) and the exchange rate may continue to exhibit a bearish behavior as the Relative Strength Index (RSI) sits in oversold territory.

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