USD/ZAR ANALYSIS50% Fibonacci sustaining resistance for USD/ZARNative financial panorama starting to achieve extra favor as inter
USD/ZAR ANALYSIS
- 50% Fibonacci sustaining resistance for USD/ZAR
- Native financial panorama starting to achieve extra favor as international influences reduce
- Rising COVID-19 instances persist nonetheless, vaccine optimism makes an attempt to manage the surge
VACCINE ARRIVALS VS RISING CASES
Final week led to a shift from US Greenback and international threat stimuli to a extra domestically targeted influence on the USD/ZAR foreign money pair. With rising deaths and an infection charges in South Africa, the announcement of vaccines from India have solely offered momentary respite. There’s intensive debate on rollout procedures and logistics that are but to be endorsed by many main stakeholders together with a lot of the South African public.
TECHNICAL ANALYSIS
USD/ZAR DAILY CHART
Chart ready by Warren Venketas, IG
The tip of November was the final time costs touched the 15.4865 degree. This degree is vital because it marks the 50% Fibonacci degree which was taken from February 2018 lows to April 2020 highs. This can be a main space of confluence which has served as each assist and resistance a number of occasions courting again to 2016. A confirmed break above or beneath may function a short-medium time period indication of the Rand going ahead.
At present the Relative Power Index (RSI) is approaching overbought ranges which can counsel this short-term rally has run its course. The truth that value has revered the 15.4865 degree represented by four consecutive every day candles, illustrates the significance of this horizontal resistance zone.
The persisting longer-term downtrend, overbought RSI and resistance on the 50% Fibonacci degree may level in direction of a potential continuation of the downtrend and a push decrease towards the 15.0000 psychological degree. Alternatively, a stronger US Greenback and a worsening COVID-19 state of affairs in South Africa may see a break above resistance towards the November swing excessive at 15.7357.
SOUTH AFRICAN RETAIL SALES DATA SET FOR FURTHER REDUCTION
Wednesday sees native retail gross sales information (11:00 GMT) for November forecasted at -2.3% which is lower than October’s figures of -1.8%. This will likely not have a large influence on the foreign money as a result of backdated nature of the info which is probably going already priced in. Nevertheless, if figures deviate considerably from estimates, a short-term value swing might happen.
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USD/ZAR: KEY POINTS TO CONSIDER MOVING FORWARD
- 15.4865 resistance degree
- Native vaccine rollout and instances
- Greenback forecast
— Written by Warren Venketas for DailyFX.com
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