• AUD/USD Price Analysis: Weekly resistance capping the Fed-led rally

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5 May 2022

AUD/USD Price Analysis: Weekly resistance capping the Fed-led rally

  • AUD/USD is facing a wall of weekly resistance.
  • The bears are moving in and there is a focus on the hourly correction targets. 

AUD/USD rallied on Wednesday following the Federal Reserve's less hawkish than an expected rate hike. The pair has shot up to test a key area of resistance on the longer-term charts as illustrated as follows:

AUD/USD weekly chart

The M-formation is a reversion pattern and it has pulled in the price to test the neckline. At the time of writing, the pair is consolidating and a correction could be on the cards as traders await the end of the week's Nonfarm Payrolls key event.  

USD/JPY H1 chart

The price is starting to correct and the above structures are confluence between the Fibonacci scales and prior resistance areas on the hourly chart. 

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