USD/SGD Technicals – Potential Evening Star Spotted on Hourly

USD/SGD has been climbing steadily since the breakout of 1.233 on Friday, represented by the rising trendline. Price rallied stronger on Monday open due to USD/JPY jumping higher following the non-sanction by G7 during their recent London meeting. The strengthening of USD was also spotted from risk currencies such as AUD/USD and EUR/USD, with the USD strength pushing USD/SGD higher.

Hourly Chart

Price has been kept below 1.241 consistently for the past few trading hours, but managed to rally stronger just before Singapore midday. However price formed a gravestone Doji above the 1.241 level, with a bearish candle currently underway. A potential Evening Star pattern can be formed should the bearish candle close. Preferably price will be able to break the rising trendline, which will be in line with a break of 1.24 round number. An even better confirmation for the Evening Star confirmation will see price trading below the initial rally found 2 hours ago – whose base is also the confluence with the interim support around 1.2395. A push below the interim support will open back 1.233 as ultimate bearish target without necessary negating current rally from 9th May low.

Stochastic readings hints at a potential bearish reversal as well, with readings looking likely to form a top now, adding more weight to a bearish scenario should it be confirmed.

Daily Chart

Price is currently trading at the top of a new potential Channel on the Daily just as readings are entering the overbought region steeply. However, it is difficult to determine the relevance of this newly formed Channel until price has rebounded from current levels as there are basically no topside reference. This Channel is drawn using reference from the bottom trendline which can be reliably taken, and transposing it higher from Mar Highs, where the decline all began.

Speaking of the decline, the Head and Shoulders pattern with Feb consolidation as the Left Shoulder, March range as Head and April consolidation as Right Shoulder is still in play. Prices would need to successfully break April highs and preferably 1.245 in order for strong bullish bias to be established, which will put advantage still firmly on the bears side for a move towards Channel Bottom (if the channel is of any relevance to begin with).

Fundamentally, SGD isn’t expected to move wildly from here with next MAS monetary policy meeting a good 5 months away. There aren’t any important economic data releases from Singapore for the next couple of weeks either, voiding SGD any fundamental drivers in the near future. Hence USD is expected to play a large role in USD/SGD direction at least in the near future. With that in mind, a USD pullback may occur soon if we take into consideration that US stocks bulls are looking slightly weary now with Futures trading lower. Keep a lookout for US economic news moving forward as that could exacerbate any bearish pullback, and bring USD/SGD lower in line with what Technicals are potentially showing.

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