The breakout faces well established resistance levels created by a legacy
of trading bands.
Interestingly, all purchases except the first would have been made within a
narrow trading band around the current price.
By making a clean break above $ 11,000, bitcoin has emerged from a
narrow trading band that has restricted price action for the past week.
The dominant feature on the weekly dollar index chart is the broad
trading band between $ 0.93 and $ 1.005.
The Australian dollar has remained trapped in a
sideways trading band for one year and there is little sign of a strong change in the trend.
Elsewhere in the Asian region, Indonesia, Korea, Malaysia, the Philippines, Taiwan, Thailand and Hong Kong all lowered official interest rates, while Singapore announced that it too would ease monetary policy by lowering the target
trading band for the Singapore dollar.
The
long trading band at the 77.5 level was established in April 2016 and tested many times as a resistance level.
The U.S. dollar index is testing a critical support level of a long -
running trading band that is likely to hold for now.
So, the outlook for 2018 is expected to look a lot like the narrow
trading band seen in 2017, which means a lack of upside garners a big yawn from investors.
On Monday, the Bank of Russia shifted the ruble's
trading band higher, in response to selling pressure on the Russian currency.
Leaving behind her gritty East Village apartment for an opulent palace where she walked on rugs laced with gold,
Jillian traded her band of artist friends for a coterie of backstabbing beauties.
In the least, investors expect to see a further broadening of the yuan's
trading band next year and the establishment of a deposit insurance scheme - a prelude to a gradual freeing up of deposit rates and full liberalization of interest rates.
The Dollar Index chart has been dominated by a very broad
sideways trading band that started in March 2015.
Support near $ 43 and resistance near $ 54 makes
the trading band around $ 11 wide.
The trading band between 3,260 and 3,290 will now become a major obstacle for any index rebound or new uptrend development.
The fall below
the trading band between 3,260 and 3,290 confirms that's no longer acting as a stable support level.
The breakout above $ 65 gives the upside projection target for
the trading band near $ 76.
This trading band has dominated Dollar Index behavior since 2015 January.
Normally price moves in rallies and retreats between the upper and lower edge of
the trading band.
Between 2016 January and April this trend formed the top of
a trading band.
The lower edge of the long - term GMMA has moved below 93 and into
the trading band.
Traders prepare this oscillation behavior where the value rallies and falls, but does not test the upper or lower edges of
the trading band.
Silver remains stuck in a long - term sideways
trading band.
The euro / yen moves between
these trading bands using them alternatively as support and resistance levels.
The width of
the trading band is measured and then projected upwards, giving a target near 21,000.
Classic
trading band chart pattern analysis measures the width of the trading band.
This trading band has dominated dollar index behavior since January 2015.
The lower edge of
the trading band is near 15,600 and the upper edge is near 18,300.
The lower level of
the trading band is support near $ 0.705, which is not a well - established historical support level.
This is not a trending market so there is a better probability that the Australian dollar will continue to trade between the upper and lower limits of
the trading band.
This target is calculated by measuring the width of
the trading band and projecting it upwards.
The width of
the trading band is measured and then projected upwards.
Gold prices have not tested the lower edge of
the trading band near $ 1,210 since July 2017.
The width of
the trading band between 78.5 and 81 is projected upwards to set a target near 84.5.
The first bullish feature is the way prices have generally clustered in the upper half of
the trading band since September 2017.
The lower edge of
the trading band is near 15,600.
The breakout target near 84.5 is a technical target based on
the trading band projection.
The intermediate targets in the long rise of the S&P 500 from the beginning of 2010 were all calculated using
this trade band projection method and were detailed in many S&P 500 analysis notes in this column.
This target is calculated by taking the width of
the trading band between 2000 and 2130 and projecting it upwards.
Full trend confirmation comes when the short - term GMMA moves completely above the upper edge of
the trading band.