The euro bounces off chart support – which way now?

With so much going on in Europe, the currency markets are gearing up for some truly large-scale action. John C Burford looks for clues to which way the euro is going to go next.

It's all happening in Europe! The French presidential elections have been getting exciting over the weekend and there's the budget impasse in the Netherlands.

With all this going on, I'm expecting some truly large-scale action this week in the EUR/USD.

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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.