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USD/CAD Key Support Approaches

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Two weeks ago I wrote that the USD/CAD would likely see more downside in the weeks ahead. At the time of that writing the pair was trading at 1.3517 some 350 pips over the low that we saw last week at 1.3166. We are now approaching an area of key support that should be key in helping to give us clues as to where we are heading in this pair over the next several months. The question at hand is whether the January top was, in fact, a major multi-year top in this pair or whether we will yet see higher levels before we can consider this multi-year top in place.

Looking at the daily chart, we notice a few different things from a technical and Elliott Wave perspective that are giving us signals we may be closing in on at least a temporary bottom. The first is that we have what we can consider a completed (or very close to completed) abc corrective pattern into the current levels. While on the smaller degree timeframes this corrective pattern would look slightly better with one more low, we do technically have enough waves in place at the current levels to consider this move off of the January highs as a fully completed ABC.

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