Alpari Research & Analysis

Quite of a ride we've had for the past few days in stocks. Violent, rapid selloffs on all major global indices. S&P 500 broke the mid-term uptrend line and went to test the long-term one. First...

Seems like the bearish correction has finally arrived at the global stock markets. It all usually starts in the US. Once the American Indices cough, the rest of the world catches the flu. The S&P...

Correction on European indices accelerates. The DAX is a step away from triggering a major sell signal. Currently, buyers are defending on the long-term up trendline and the horizontal support on the...

First Trading Sniper video of the month brings us three interesting setups. The first one is on Bitcoin, where the price failed to come back above the 11k USD resistance. Bitcoin created a pennant...

Tuesday and Wednesday brought us a few nice breakouts from the trend continuation patterns on major pairs on the FX Market. NZD/USD broke the upper line of the wedge pattern, which is triggering...

The last week was decisive for the USD/CHF. We had very strong fundamental factors that influenced this pair. First of all, the USD was pushed lower by the US Treasury Secretary, who said that the...

Mario Draghi did not say anything new. His comments were similar to the recent ones. Consensus about his statement says that the ECB governor was not dovish enough. That allowed to lift the EUR...

By saying that a weaker USD is good for trade, Mnuchin sank the USD further. This helped the USD/CAD pair to break the mid-term horizontal support, which was a part of the sideways trend locked inside...

2018 has been pretty amazing for indices. For example, on American exchanges, almost all trading days this year have been positive. European indices were a little bit behind but they've been doing...

Yesterday we mentioned EUR/USD and USD/JPY, where we had sideways trends closed inside the symmetric triangles patterns. When the price is inside, that is the worse place to make a trade. In that...

Last few days on the USD are bringing us a rather boring sideways trends. That kind of movements have one advantage – they should eventually come to an end, bringing us directional movements and...

Cable did not hesitate too much on the horizontal resistance created by the lows from the February 2016. We had a bit of bearish price action there but eventually buyers managed to break that...

Gold breaks the mid-term up trendline but the downswing stops on the 1324 USD/oz. There is a chance for a bigger reversal but first, the price needs to break this support. If that will happen, next...

Bitcoin continues to go down. As mentioned yesterday, the first target for the BTC was the support around the psychological barrier on the 11k. Bitcoin went there but it was not enough for the bears,...

USD/JPY broke an important support on the 110.8 and now is testing that it as closest resistance. First contract with this area from the bottom is good for sellers as the price created a shooting star...

Today we will come back to DAX, which we were analysing at the beginning of the year. Back in that time, the price was meeting a combination of few important supports and that was the time to decide...