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AUD/USD Holds Support at $0.6930

Posted on March 25, 2009 at 20:12 in Trading Desk by Ryan O'Keefe

In my last post I speculated if the AUD/USD trend was strong enough the pair may bounce early on support around $0.6930 and bounce it did, three times. With two hammers and a bullish engulfing pattern I hope you found an entry that worked for you and caught some pips.

Deciding how to enter a trade when price approaches an potential support and resistance zone is subjective but since I get email about it, I thought I’d share this chart as an illustration of what I look for.  To me, support and resistance trading to me is about waiting for price action to tell you the story.

If I am very confident in an entry zone I may use an entry order at the boundaries of the entry zone however if I am not confident I will wait for the market to show it’s cards to me first through price action. I like to see long candle wicks suggesting strong price objections to that entry zone or very strong reversal patterns such as bullish or bearish engulfing candles.  I use the same process regardless of the time frame I’m trading.

Best of luck!

Ryan

One Response to “AUD/USD Holds Support at $0.6930”

  1. on 26 Mar 2009 at 3:39 pm1Christian

    Hi Ryan,

    Personaly I am waiting for a more important pullback before jumping in. If I get my way we sould see strong pullback in SPX tomorrow hence I am looking to get long audusd sometime Monday or Tuesday at earliest. Will see.

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