On Wednesday, I explained how I have been finding the few very high probability/low risk trades in EUR/USD as it progressed through its very complex fourth wave pattern.
But when it hit my major target at the 1.1360 level, I believed that was the most likely wave 4 high.
The move down since then has helped confirm my view that the market is in the early stages of its final fifth wave of this sequence.
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The final thrust up to my target emerged from a lengthy wedge pattern. The upper wedge line was strong resistance before the break, but must now beconsidered strong support from where sharp rallies can be mounted.
But now that the market is entering below the December wave A high, we must consider other levels from which decent bounces can be staged and here is a classic target derived from my tramline method.
This is the updated chart:
The blue line is my long-term lower tramline drawn off the wave 3 low of last March. Now, with the decline off the 1.1360 high, I can draw a new and smaller tramline pair in pink.
The two highs line up beautifully and the lower line passes through accurate hits on the lows of this A-B-C pattern. So last week, the lower tramline became a target for a bounce, because lower tramlines are always line of support.
Isn't that pretty? The market is currently bouncing up off this line. Note the crossover of the blue and pink tramlines in what I call a "Chinese hat". This is a particularly strong area of resistance.
Here is a close-up of this action:
Not only did the market hit the lower tramline on Wednesday, but that was also where the Fibonacci 62% retrace of wave C was sitting. And the hit was on a small momentum divergence.
This is a textbook setup for a counter-trend rally and that is precisely what we are seeing.
That low at the 1.0960 level on Wednesday was the perfect place to take short-term profits of a few hundreds of pips. In fact, that low was a target that anyone using my methods could have used ahead of time to plan their trade.
It is a great example of how to analyse where a likely high is to be made (at the 1.1360 level), how to set a stop loss if wrong, then plan targets where profits could be taken, and set orders up ahead of time to take those profits.
If this became an automatic routine for you, then you have the odds very much on your side to become a very serious and profitable trader.
Now that the market has given me confirmation that a counter-trend rally is in progress, I can now plan my next move.
Because odds are high that wave 5 down has started, I am looking for a five-wave pattern to form within this final wave. That is my ideal scenario.
One possible option is that the move down to the Wednesday low is my wave 1 down and the current bounce is part of wave 2. That view would be confirmed with a stronger bounce than has occurred so far.
But if the market fails to rally from here it would be in danger of breaking my lower pink tramline support, and that would herald a steeper decline, thereby postponing my wave 1 low.
Whatever happens, odds favour a stair-step decline through the wedge congestion zone. But if selling became intense, the bounces would be brief and small and my forecast for parity would heave into view.
The euro excitement continues.
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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.
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