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Brexit fears cause volatility in GBP pairs

GBPJPY, 240 min

Recently GBP has been under pressure due to fears that the country might leave the European Union. I view this as a very low probability event but that doesn’t stop markets from being volatile. While Sterling has been under pressure the Japanese Yen has been either rising or moving sideways. This has brought the GBPJPY significantly lower and I don’t see an immediate reason for this psychological setting to change. We therefore look for opportunities to sell the rallies to join the trend as long as the trend lasts.

The pair is trending lower in weekly, daily and 4h time frames and is currently oversold as per Stochastics in weekly timeframes while there’s some attempt to move Stochastics higher in the daily chart. On February 22^nd GBPJPY moved below an important support at 159.79 and therefore turned it into a resistance. This resistance also coincides with the 23.6% Fibonacci retracement level. We are interested in short trades GBPJPY between 159.50 and 160.54 if the price rallies there and give us a sell signal. Target 1 for this potential trade is at 154.70 – 155.65 while target 2 is at 148.55-149.30.

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Janne Muta

Chief Market Analyst

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AUDGBP, 240 min

The pound has found its feet after underperforming over the last several sessions. UK think tank NIESR helped as it issued, yesterday afternoon in London, an upward revision to its UK GDP estimate for the three months to November, now expecting 0.6% growth versus 0.5% previously. That would mark a tick higher from the official 0.5% growth clip seen in Q3. NIESR is also anticipating the BoE to hike the repo rate by 25 bp in February, which is well ahead of most forecasters and with (as the FT highlights) sterling markets factoring just 11% odds for such a move as soon as February.

AUDGBP has fallen to a 0.4765 support after turning lower around 0.4900. In addition to being at support the pair is trading outside the descending regression channel which suggests that the move by the latest down candle has taken the market too far down too fast. In addition the RSI is firmly in the oversold territory. This turns the focus to the area between 0.4791 and 0.4825 and we should be looking for short entry signals should the pair rally there. My targets for a successful short entry are at 0.4721 (T1), 0.4670 (T2).