(MENAFN- DailyFX) US Dollar Talking Points:
- after last week's bullish breakout posed a brisk turn-around. I had , and a week later sees the Dollar in a bearish short-term state as prices have broken-down to fresh lows. But a bit of support has finally shown around a key level that had helped to mark resistance on four separate occasions in October. Can USD bulls now hold the line?
- Going along with that USD bounce is that runs from 1.1448-1.1500. Along with that, support setups have shown in USD/CAD and NZD/USD while USD/CHF looks to be at the early stages of reversal after jumping up to fresh two-year highs just last week. These pairs were all discussed in this week's , and I take a closer look into each below.
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Dow, S & P 500 Bears Not Yet Done
It's been another brisk start to the week as . Yesterday's tech sell-off continued the seven week pattern of pain, as the Q4 open in October marked a clear change-of-pace in the equity trade. The Dow Jones Industrial Average is now trading below the psychological 25k marker, and the S & P 500 sits atop the November swing-low. A temporary respite was seen in this theme last week on the heels of some less-hawkish comments from FOMC Chair, Jerome Powell. That recovery held into the weekend, but it appears that this was long forgotten by the time we got to the Monday open, and prices have now peeled away all of those gains and then some in the S & P 500.
S & P 500 Daily Price Chart Chart prepared by
US Dollar Bounces From Fibonacci Support , and this follows last week's breakout to . Yesterday saw prices in the US Dollar drop towards a key trend-line that's been in play since the September FOMC rate decision. Buyers were unable to hold the line at that level, and a quick drop developed that saw DXY move down towards a test at 96.04, which is the 50% marker of the 2017-2018 bearish move in the currency. Perhaps more importantly, this is the same level that helped to set resistance on four separate occasions in October before buyers were finally able to push a breakout.
US Dollar Four-Hour Price Chart: Bounce From Early-October Resistance Chart prepared by
From short-term charts, we can see where USD bulls aren't yet out of the woods as there is a continued sequence of lower-lows and lower-highs. But there is an encouraging first step where the drop down to support has been coupled with a bump-higher and an attempt to re-claim higher-low support on that trend-line projection.
US Dollar Hourly Price Chart: USD Bulls Attempt to Re-Claim Trend-Line Support Chart prepared by
EUR/USD Holds at Key Resistance
For USD-strength strategies, EUR/USD remains as one of the more attractive candidates, and this is a theme that's been present through . As part of that backdrop around EUR/USD is a key zone of prior support that runs from 1.1448-1.1500. This zone helped to hold support in the first half of October over multiple occasions; and when prices broke down, this area helped to mark resistance for November. The early-part of the month saw a resistance test at the bottom portion of the zone and a week later, .
After the 1.1500 resistance test, EUR/USD was finally able to break-down to a fresh yearly low. But, sellers shied away from the 1.1212 , and a 200+ pip retracement developed as prices flung back into this resistance zone yesterday.
EUR/USD Eight-Hour Price Chart Chart prepared by
GBP/USD: Caution as Brexit Dynamics Remain in Headlines after the jaw-dropping short-term of last week. On a longer-term basis, the pair has remained within the range of the past three months; but picking a direction on shorter-term charts was of difficulty as a number of headlines pushed the pair in either trajectory.
. This flung the pair down towards 1.2700, at which point a bit of support began to show. That held into Friday, and buyers were able to push up towards the 1.2875 level; but that appears to now be a line-in-the-sand as there are now three days of resistance showing at this level.
GBP/USD Hourly Price Chart: Hold at Short-Term Resistance from Prior Support Chart prepared by
NZD/USD Support Check After Fresh Four-Month Highs
USD-weakness has been a primary theme in for this month, and this comes despite the US Dollar's continued topside run. The primary reason is one of placement, as the bulk of that USD strength has appeared to come from EUR/USD and, at times, GBP/USD .
Meanwhile, both AUD/USD and . As USD-strength ran pretty clearly in October, both Aussie and Kiwi held support relatively well; putting each pair in a position so that once USD-strength calmed, AUD/USD and NZD/USD would be set up attractively for bullish strategies. That's played out so far in November, and , looking for a pullback to support at prior resistance after last week's fresh four-month highs. That support filled-in yesterday and prices are now testing a key area of resistance on the chart around .6875.
NZD/USD Two-Hour Price Chart Chart prepared by
USD/CHF Breaks Down to Fresh Monthly Lows
Going along with those USD-weakness setups has been . USD/CHF encountered a number of resistance levels while moving up to two-year highs, and a bit of turbulence started to show with the pair trading above the parity level. It took a little while for bears to start to gain control, but that appears to have happened over the past week, and this can keep the door open for USD-weakness scenarios as the pair comes off of fresh two-year highs that were set just a week ago.
USD/CHF Four-Hour Price Chart Chart prepared by
USD/CAD Bounce From Confluent Support
In , I talked about the difficulty in finding attractive setups for long-USD scenarios. One had showed up in USD/CAD as prices pulled back to a confluent level of support around 1.3132, which offers all of a trend-line projection, a Fibonacci level and a batch of prior resistance turned fresh support. That confluent zone has held thus far on the fresh week, and this keeps the door open for bullish USD strategies in the pair.
USD/CAD Four-Hour Price Chart Chart prepared by
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--- Written by James Stanley, Strategist for DailyFX.com
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