Is the euro finally finding support now?

Just when it seems it can't get any worse for the euro - is often when you should expect a rally, says John C Burford. Has that time arrived?

During the long break for the Queen's Jubilee celebrations, the markets have been working away and the anticipated support I have mentioned in previous posts seems to be at hand.

In my post on 25 May, I had taken a substantial profit on the short side and had expected a decent rally. I had several reasons for suspecting a rally, which I laid out, andbelow is the chart I showed then.

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John is is a British-born lapsed PhD physicist, who previously worked for Nasa on the Mars exploration team. He is a former commodity trading advisor with the US Commodities Futures Trading Commission, and worked in a boutique futures house in California in the 1980s.

 

He was a partner in one of the first futures newsletter advisory services, based in Washington DC, specialising in pork bellies and currencies. John is primarily a chart-reading trader, having cut his trading teeth in the days before PCs.

 

As well as his work in the financial world, he has launched, run and sold several 'real' businesses producing 'real' products.