The British pound currency has continued to fall against the US dollar as the greenback rally broadly on the currency market due to the notion that inflation has not yet peaked.
Lat week there was better than forecasts for inflation numbers, raising hopes the Bank of England will not be forced into hiking its rate further than markets are anticipating.
Data showed that the United Kingdom consumer prices index fell to 10.1% for January, down from 10.5% in December and more than the 10.3% that had been expected.
The Bank of England not hiking anymore or as aggressively is GBP bearish as the US is likely to be getting more hawkish after the release of recent inflation data.
Much evidence on the charts suggests that the GBPUSD pair will continue to go lower according to the upcoming invalidation of a bullish reversal price patterns.
Looking at sentiment data and how traders feel about sterling, the ActivTrader Market Sentiment tool shows that traders are growing more bearish despite the recent sharp price reversal.
With 63% of traders currently bullish it should be noted that this current sentiment reading is highlighting that sterling still has much scope to trade even lower also.
GBPUSD Short-term Technical Analysis
Looking at the four-hour time frame, a clear price range breakout is emerged for sterling, with the break happening around the 1.1800 level.
A bullish inverted head and shoulders pattern is also close to being invalidated. According to the overall size of the pattern, I would expect that we could soon see a further 400 points more upside in GBPUSD.
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GBPUSD Medium-term Technical Analysis
According to the daily time frame it shows that that GBPUSD pair is starting to form a much larger bullish reversal pattern and appears to be targeting the 1.2800 to 1.3000 area.
According to the technical analysis a healthy correction is coming, it really depends how far bears can take GBPUSD with 1.1650 or 1.1400 the preferred swing areas.
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