Elliott Wave Webinar: US Dollar Index Prepares For Counter Trend Rally

US Dollar Index is nearing the end of an Elliott Wave impulse pattern. Dollar is approaching a support zone that may cause it to strengthen back towards 95 DXY and EUR/USD may drop towards 1.12.

The video above is a recording of a US Opening Bell webinar from January 22, 2018.

In today’s US Opening Bell webinar, we discussed key markets using Elliott Wave Theory such as (and not in this order) DXY, EUR/USD, USD/JPY, GBP/USD, AUD/USD, USD/CAD, Oil, and Gold.

The Elliott Wave chart for US Dollar Index (DXY) illustrates an important high occurred near 104 in December 2016. Since then, US Dollar has sold off hard and has nearly completed an Elliott Wave impulse pattern to the downside. This suggests the Dollar Index may find its footing soon and stage its largest rally in over a year back towards 95-98. According to the four-hour price chart below, wave (iv) and (v) are needed to finalize the near term down trend.

US Dollar Index Elliott Wave Chart

EUR/USD Elliott Wave Analysis

If Dollar Index may pivot towards strength soon, then that suggests EUR/USD may top and pivot lower in the coming days. The Elliott Wave analysis for EUR/USD shows that it is also looking for a wave (iv) and wave (v) to finish its up trend. Once final waves of (v) are in place, then we can count the whole pattern since March 2015 as an expanded flat Elliott Wave pattern. The next move is likely to be several hundred pips lower towards 1.10-1.12.

EURUSD Sentiment Analysis

Sentiment is also indicating some subtle shifts. The number of traders net short on EUR/USD has shifted lower despite the market driving higher by 200 pips. This indicates to me that short traders are giving up and beginning to shift towards long positions. Sentiment is a contrarian tool so that subtle shift can be a bearish signal if that trend continues.

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---Written by Jeremy Wagner, CEWA-M

Jeremy Wagner is a Certified Elliott Wave Analyst with a Master’s designation. Jeremy provides Elliott Wave analysis on key markets as well as Elliott Wave educational resources. Read more of Jeremy’s Elliott Wave reports via his bio page.

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