EUR/GBP Price Forecast, Analysis and Chart:
- Conservative party odds-on to gain a majority at next week’s General Election.
- EUR/GBP sellers in control as price continues to fall.
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EUR/GBP Price Analysis
The UK Conservative party are heavily odds-on to gain a majority at next week’s General Election with one bookmaker – Paddy Power - shortening the odds to 4/11 from 4/9 on favorable opinion polls. The same bookmaker has no overall majority priced at 2/1 while Boris Johnson is 1/5 to be Prime Minster after the GE with Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn at 3/1. While General Election’s can be fickle – Theresa May lost a lot of support in the final week before the 2017 election leaving her running a minority government – the numbers and the market’s subsequent reaction point to Boris Johnson winning a working majority in Parliament, and an end to the Brexit deadlock. If however history repeats itself and the Conservatives are unable to gain a majority, Sterling-crosses will remain at risk of a sharp sell-off.
While FX market headlines will point to GBP/USD appreciation, a better proxy for the GE and Brexit is EUR/GBP. The market rally between early-May and mid-August this year was fueled by increasing fears around Brexit negotiations and the overall financial market unease with the UK. The pair made a fresh nine-month low today (0.84820) and currently trade a fraction away from the March 13 low print at 0.84725. The next level of support after here is the mid-April 2017 low at 0.83133 before the April 2016 swing-high at 0.81175. The CCI indicator shows the market in oversold territory but any rally should run into resistance between 0.8550, the 20-dma, and 0.86065, the November 20 high.
EUR/GBP Daily Price Chart (February - December 4, 2019)
The weekly chart also shows the long-dated moving average broken convincingly, another bearish signal.
EUR/GBP Weekly Price Chart (November 2013 – December 2019)
IG Client Sentiment shows that traders are 75% net-long EUR/GBP, normally a bearish contrarian bias. However, recent daily and weekly sentiment shifts give us a mixed outlook.
Traders may be interested in two of our trading guides – Traits of Successful Traders and Top Trading Lessons – while technical analysts are likely to be interested in our latest Elliott Wave Guide.
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