FX.co ★ USD/CAD Intraday Technical Analysis and Trading Recommendations for July 25, 2012

Since June 4, the USD/CAD pair movement is maintained within the mid-term slightly bearish depicted channel with its upper limit located around 1.0245.
Fibonacci level 50% is located at the price level of 1.0120 and 61.8% is located at 1.0045 which are considered to be strong Support levels.
During the last week, USD/CAD has been trapped within a narrow ranged price zone between 1.0170 -1.0230, the upper limit of which prevented further upside movement of the pair showing bearish price action which pushed the pair to the downside breaking down the lower limit of the consolidation range, the same price action took place yesterday towards 1.0230 pushing the USD/CAD pair towards 1.0170 (being tested now).
Breakdown of 1.0170 will open the way for a bearish movement towards 1.0125 then 1.0085.
Price zone between 1.0230 -1.0250 should be carefully watched for price action in order to take a profitable trade at this key level.