On Tuesday, British pound move lower against the greenback, which resulted in an invalidation of the breakout above two important resistances. How did this negative development affect the technical picture of GBP/USD?

EUR/USD

Looking at the daily chart, we see that the situation in the very short term hasn’t changed much as EUR/USD remains in the blue consolidation not far from the May 2016 high of 1.1615 and the upper border of the brown rising trend channel. What’s next? Taking into account the fact that currency bulls were strong enough to push the exchange rate above the upper border of previous consolidations, it seems to us that we’ll see one more upswing and a test of the above-mentioned resistances before a bigger move to the downside.

Very short-term outlook: mixed with bullish bias
Short-term outlook: mixed
MT outlook: mixed
LT outlook: mixed

GBP/USD

Quoting our last commentary on this currency pair:

(…) although GBP/USD broke above the upper border of the brown rising trend channel and hit a fresh 2017 high, the yellow resistance zone stopped currency bulls triggering a pullback. As a result, the exchange rate slipped below the brown line, which suggests that we may see an invalidation of the breakout later in the day. In other words, if the pair closes today’s session under the upper border of the brown rising trend channel and the May highs, currency bears will receive important bearish factors to act. If this is the case, we’ll see and acceleration of declines and a test of the mid-July or even late June low in the coming days.

From today’s point of view, we see that the situation developed in line with the above scenario and GBP/USD closed Tuesday’s session under the upper border of the brown rising trend channel and the May highs, invalidating the earlier breakout. This negative event encouraged currency bears to act earlier today, which resulted in a sharp decline. This suggests that we’ll see a realization of the bearish scenario from our previous alert and a test of our downside targets in the coming days.