Euro USD

Here is a weekly chart of the cash euro-USD pair. I last commented on this market here.

I have a number of reasons to be bearish at this juncture. Perhaps the most important is the unreasoning bullishness shown by so many who expect the US Dollar to go into the tank here.

But I have other technical reasons for my view. On the chart you can see the drop from the 136.66 top in December 2004 does not have the obvious three phase look of a completed corrective move. On the other hand, the move up from the 116.40 low made in November 2005 does have a definite three phase look. The market has rallied about 1200 points from its low, just about as long a correction as the two big corrections within the big move up from 100.00 in 2002 to the 136.66 high in late 2004.

I have illustrated an obvious symmetry in this chart which makes it an example of a Lindsay foldback chart. The center line is drawn through the 134.79 top in March 2005. The lows on either side of this center line occurred nearly the same length of time from the center line and at nearly the same price level. The top at 129.27 labeled A occurred in February 2004, 13 months prior to the center line. The foldback symmetry then predicts a top (labeled AA) 13 months after the center line, i.e. in May 2006 near the 129.27 level. Today the market has rallied as high as 128.30.

I think the next big move in the euro-USD will be downward. This foldback chart predicts a low near 108 about 18 months after the center line. This would be September 2006.