USDCAD Consolidating for 6th Week Ahead of NFP
Wednesday, December 06, 2017
by Darren Chu, CFA of Tradable Patterns
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The USDCAD bounced roughly 100 pips yesterday off the low end of the past 6 week range, and is poised for a volatility spike Friday on the widely anticipated Non-Farm Payrolls (NFP) release. With the US Dollar increasingly showing signs of trying to make a medium term bottom (as seen on a 1 year daily and 5 year weekly chart of $USD on stockcharts.com), the USDCAD continues to be my preferred FX pair for trading on the long side of the US Dollar as it's shown greater strength since September than the other USD-base currency FX pairs in myWatchlist . The weekly, daily and 4hr RSI, Stochastics and MACD are bottomish, rallying or consolidating recent gains. I am looking to go long in the green zone (of the daily chart), targeting the red zone for Friday (ahead of NFP). The amber/yellow zone is where I might place a stop if I was a swing trader (although in my personal account with which I seldom hold overnight I set my stops tighter).
USDCAD Weekly/Daily/4hr 
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About the author
Before the launch of Tradable Patterns , Darren Chu, CFA, served as IntercontinentalExchange | NYSE Liffe's country manager for Australia, India, and the UAE between July 2010 and January 2014, expanding his role to look after Liffe business development in APAC ex-Japan/Korea until his departure mid April 2014. His primary remit was developing relationships with Liffe clients, prospects and partners in the buyside (traditional and alternative asset managers), proprietary trading (high frequency algo as well as manual, point and click traders), bank, broker (institutional and retail), commodity trader and ISV community. Key futures and options promoted included European/London rate benchmarks such as the Euribor, Short Sterling, Gilts, London/European index futures including the FTSE and CAC, London soft commodities (Robusta Coffee, Cocoa, White Sugar), Paris (MATIF) markets (Milling Wheat, Rapeseed), and NYSE Liffe US markets with the MSCI EM, MSCI EAFE, gold/silver, Eurodollar, US Treasury and GCF Repo futures being the focus. Previously, Darren was with the TMX Group | Montreal Exchange for 4 years, marketing Canadian futures and options across North America, London, Singapore and Hong Kong. Darren also launched and managed CMC Markets Canada's Chinese marketing and sales team, along with educational offering. On the academic trail, Darren has been a frequent guest speaker at Canadian universities as well as an author of content for 3 derivatives courses offered by Canadian Securities Institute and mandatory for licensing of Canadian derivatives industry professionals. Darren can be reached at +65 8118 8840 or via email at darrenchu@tradablepatterns.com. contributing author since 11/21/2017
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