Chart of interest - AUD/EUR (the sleeper trade of 2013?)

Posted by Graham Parlane on 8 March 2013

Hi all

This is one of my dead set favourite trades.

Since the onset of the GFC the Australian dollar has appreciated against the EUR, almost doubling in value as the market sought refuge from the beleaguered EuroZone and finding haven in the high yield, proxy to China growth, AAA rated Australian dollar. What an incredible run.

AUDEUR – click here to view chart

However late last year things began to change with the Troika providing enough funds, and therefore time, for the EuroZone politicians to make the required fiscal changes i.e. labour market, pension reform etc. Meanwhile the RBA forecast an earlier peak in mining investment and resumed cutting rates.

It is my belief that the NZD and AUD currencies are vulnerable to their own success of the last few years (the cure for a high currency is a high currency – eventually it’ll hurt). I think too that Eurozone data will surprise to the topside in as much as it surely can’t get worse.

Technically the picture looks intriguing. We had the ‘head and shoulders’ break down below the neckline and then, as so often happens the retest. Now we look likely to resume the move that should head towards 0.7000

AUDEUR a closer look – click here to view chart

Cheers G.

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