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London Session Prep
The tape still opens on Washington’s crypto-regulation push — a breakthrough is called near, and the SEC has proposed its first major crypto rule — while Gulf bourses hold firmer as oil’s Iran-sanction bid lingers. That story continues, not reverses.
The window’s calendar is bare: nothing scheduled between 08:00 and 12:00 UTC, so price action owns the morning. The barometer leans bullish but is catching its breath. Bitcoin (77,426.5) is camped under resistance at 77,543.8, with 76,549.3 as the support to defend; Ethereum is holding 2,441.8 with open ground overhead. Gold is in a clean uptrend at 4,646.52, though RSI at 70 and a quiet divergence argue for a stall, not a turn.
The boxes decide direction. Oil (84.74) is squeezed between 84.37 and 84.86 with H1 momentum soft — breakout, not drift. GBP/USD (1.36486) sits evenly between 1.36329 and 1.36563, with a mild RSI divergence as the caution flag. An empty calendar, but the charts are chatty.