1.2350 Support Key for Bullish Continuation

GBP/USD PRICE, CHARTS AND ANALYSIS:

GBP/USD FUNDAMENTAL BACKDROP

GBPUSD is having an intriguing week to this point and largely on the mercy of general market sentiment and the DXY. There has been a scarcity of concrete information on the financial docket to present GBP any kind of impetus as market sentiment and its results on the greenback dominate.

This theme has continued this morning as GBPUSD has rallied increased and virtually recovered the whole Tuesday selloff which touched a low of 1.2387. Sentiment improved in a single day as markets seem glad that the information out of First Republic Bank within the United States would don’t have any lasting influence on sentiment or set off a contemporary selloff in financial institution shares. US earnings launched after the US shut yesterday additionally supplied an additional enhance with the US greenback going through renewed promoting consequently. US Tech giants Microsoft and Alphabet (Google) reported upbeat Q1 earnings.

Given that the theme of the week has been general market sentiment and its results on the US greenback I don’t count on that to alter. A light-weight day on the financial docket with US Durable Goods information the one notable launch. I see potential for a retest of the latest highs by GBPUSD ought to market sentiment stay upbeat for the remainder of the week. This coupled with a hawkish narrative surrounding the Bank of England (BoE) in mild of final week’s UK inflation information ought to maintain GBP supported forward of the FOMC assembly subsequent week.

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TECHNICAL OUTLOOK AND FINAL THOUGHTS

On the every day timeframe GBPUSD has recovered nearly all of yesterday’s selloff following a wonderful begin to the European session, buying and selling at 1.2475. The technical image for GBPUSD is fairly murky with numerous indecision of late as market sentiment has been the important thing driver.

Yesterday noticed a bearish engulfing every day candle shut which was additionally the worst day for the pair in simply over every week. Instead of following by means of at the moment nevertheless we’ve seen an entire reversal with the pair on the verge of a retest of the 1.2500 degree as soon as extra. What’s much more baffling is that there was early indicators of a head and shoulder sample forming on the every day timeframe (See chart beneath) in addition to a loss of life cross on the H4 timeframe because the 50-day MA crossed beneath the 100-day MA.

Recent strikes on GBPUSD have largely been pushed by general market sentiment with the vary between 1.2350 and 1.2550 offering potential vary sure alternatives (Click Here to study extra about vary buying and selling). A every day candle shut above or beneath the vary high or backside is essential for bullish continuation or a deeper correction to the draw back.

Key Levels to Keep an Eye Out For

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GBP/USD Daily Chart – April 26, 2023

Source: TradingView

IG CLIENT SENTIMENT DATA

IGCS reveals retail merchants are presently SHORT on GBP/USD, with 59percentof merchants presently holding SHORT positions. At DailyFX we sometimes take a contrarian view to crowd sentiment leading to a short-term bullish bias which might see the YTD excessive come beneath menace.

Written by: Zain Vawda, Markets Writer for DailyFX.com

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