USDCHF Bullish Setup – Morning Star at the End of a Falling Wedge

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Written By: Mircea Vasiu
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  • USDCHF falling wedge points to an imminent bounce. Moreover, a morning star pattern comes to reinforce the bullish thesis.

The USDCHF pair completed a bullish setup on the daily timeframe – a combo between a classic and a Japanese technical analysis reversal patterns. On the one hand, the major pair formed a falling wedge that just broke higher. On the other hand, at the opposite end of the wedge, it pulled a morning star pattern – a powerful Japanese reversal one.

The CHF was on a tear higher recently. Not even the Swiss National Bank’s (SNB) buying assets abroad could steam investors’ appetite for the Swiss Franc. If any reversal is in the cards, it is likely to come from the other side of the ocean – the United States.

USD Reverses Across the Board On Positive Data and Profit Taking

The USDCHF moves in an indirect correlation with the EURUSD. When one falls, the other one rises. The key to this correlation is the cross, the EURCHF. As long as the volatility in the EURCHF cross remains subdued, the correlation remains tight.

As the EURUSD got strongly rejected at the 1.20 yesterday, it trades now close to 1.18. It means that the USDCHF will have no trouble advancing on further EURUSD weakness. Profit-taking, therefore, seems to be the name of the game.

The ISM-Manufacturing release also showed improved conditions for the sector. Yesterday’s release revealed a growth on most sectors, with only the employment component still contracting. However, while contracting, there is notable improvement there too, when compared to July’s data.

USDCHF Technical Analysis

A falling wedge is always rising – every technical trader is aware of this saying. Hence, that is a bullish pattern. Because at the end of it there is another bullish formation, a morning star, we can talk about a confluence area difficult for breaks to overcome.

To trade it, consider going long at market and place a stop-loss at the lower end of the pattern. For the take profit, consider half of the wedge’s distance, as it is usually retraced by future price action.

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Written By: Mircea Vasiu

Mircea, MBA in International Business graduating Magna Cum Laudae, trades for a living and contributes to various financial publications for more than six years. He writes about macroeconomics, stock indices, currencies, and most recently ETFs and individual stocks. For the past decade, he’s involved in everything trading related, mostly in the currency market, both with manual and algorithmic trading.

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