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EURTrading

What is the EURUSD forecast for 2022?

Pepperstone
Trading Guides
26 Aug 2022

Breaking down the components

Before we look at the EURUSDforecast for the remainder of 2022, we should look at the single currencies as a standalone product. This will highlight if the move lower in the major currency pair has mainly been driven by the EURO weakness or USD strength.

The DXY (USD basket)

Looking out to the DXY monthly timeframe, we have seen a rejection in July at the trend of higher highs. This trend line resistance could be seen to form part of a larger Ending Wedge pattern. This formation has an eventual bias to break to the downside.  

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Figure 1 Trading View DXY Monthly Ending Wedge

The DXY daily chart and we are possibly forming a Cypher pattern known as a Butterfly formation. This offers Fibonacci confluence at 101.75.

It is common practice for the B-C leg to reach 88.6% of the A-B leg, often analysed as a double top. It should be noted that if the DXY index does NOT break the swing high from the 14th of July, then the pattern is still valid. This offers a mild bearish bias if 109.30 stays intact.

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Figure 2 Trading View Daily Butterfly formation

The Euro basket

The Euro basket daily chart offers a mixed picture.  

The bearish scenario is that we are moving lower in a Flag formation. The measured move target is 262.36.

The bullish scenario is that we are trading within a bullish Ending wedge, that has an eventual bias to break to the upside.

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Figure 3 Trading View Euro Basket Mixed Picture

Breaking down the EURUSD forecast

The EURUSD monthly chart highlights a strong and impulsive rally from October 2000 to July 2008. This move can be broken down into a bullish 5-wave pattern with inside legs in 5-waves. From an Elliott Wave perspective, this is the end of a completed positive cycle.

With that in mind, the whole move lower from the 1.6038 peak could be assessed as being a complex correction, holding within a bearish channel formation.

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Figure 4 Trading View EURUSD positive Elliott Wave Count

Note how the downside moves can be counted in three waves (A-B-C). This choppy price action is common in corrective cycles.

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Figure 5 Trading View EURUSD complex correction

What was support, now becomes resistance. The previous swing low at 1.0462 (from 2015) is likely to form a substantial barrier and offer further downside pressure for the EURUSD forecast.

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Figure 6 Trading View EURUSD 1.0462 barrier

Linking in with the DXY negative short term bias, there is scope for a correction higher in EURUSD.

A look at the 4-hour chart highlights a possible Gartley formation. If the swing low of 0.9952 holds, then we could see a correction higher to the Fibonacci confluence area of 1.0474-79.

This is just above the solid medium-term barrier at 1.0462.

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Figure 7 Trading View EURUSD Gartley formation

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