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US Dollar Pulls Back from 2018 Highs: Price Action Strategy

US Dollar Pulls Back from 2018 Highs: Price Action Strategy

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In this webinar, we used price action to look at macro markets after the continued topside run in the US Dollar. USD ran-up to fresh 2018 highs earlier today, and this continues the three week-run of strength that began to show in mid-April. There was quite a bit of intra-day volatility today around the Iran deal, and this was a point of contention over a few of the USD-based setups that we looked at today.

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US Dollar Pulls Back From Fresh 2018 Highs

It’s been an interesting day in the US Dollar with a bit of volatility creeping in around the drama surrounding the Iran deal. The Greenback opened this morning’s US session by continuing up to fresh 2018 highs, with a pullback starting to show at around 10AM ET. Prices moved down to a prior point of resistance on DXY around the 93.00 level, and that’s so far held as higher-low support. USD may still be overbought, however, and a deeper retracement could make the prospect of bullish continuation look considerably more attractive. We honed in on the area from 92.20-92.50 to look for such a support level and, as usual, we kept a balanced approach around the US Dollar so that we could have something to work with under each scenario (strength continues/strength reverses).

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US Dollar via ‘DXY’ Hourly Chart: Pullback from 2018 Highs, Support at Prior Resistance 93.00

US Dollar Hourly Chart

Chart prepared by James Stanley

EUR/USD Remains Bearish Short-Term

EUR/USD put in a bounce from a short-term support level we looked at yesterday, but from the hourly chart there is no evidence to suggest that a bottom is yet in place. As a matter of fact, the hourly chart may be keeping the door open for bearish continuation towards the 1.1750 area on the chart. A bit below that is an attractive support zone: This runs from 1.1685-1.1736, and this was an area that we were using in the second half of last year on the pair, comprised from retracements taken from a couple of different Fibonacci studies.

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EUR/USD Hourly Chart: Bearish Continuation with No Evidence Yet of Bottom-in-Place

eurusd hourly chart

Chart prepared by James Stanley

GBP/USD: Oversold and Grinding at Key Support Ahead of BoE

By comparative analysis, GBP/USD has not been as bearish as EUR/USD going back to last Friday. While GBP/USD continues to hold support around last Friday’s low, EUR/USD is continuing with lower-lows and lower-highs. Deductively, this makes GBP/USD as an attractive candidate for playing the short-side in USD, particularly given the backdrop of factors that could strengthen the prospect of a bullish reversal in the pair. GBP/USD has run down to a key level of support around 1.3500, which has continued to help hold the lows since last week. Daily RSI has become oversold after a really strong reversal in April, and the Bank of England is set for a ‘Super Thursday’ rate decision later this week. We looked at the reversal setup in the pair in yesterday’s Analyst Pick with setups for this week.

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GBP/USD Hourly Chart: Continued Grind in Support Zone 1.3478-1.3500

gbpusd hourly chart

Chart prepared by James Stanley

USD/CHF Near-Parabolic as Parity Eclipsed

The topside run in USD/CHF has been pretty remarkable, with nary a pullback on longer-term charts. Price action finally surged through parity, and traders would have to acknowledge the consistency with which this move has come-in, alluding to the fact that there’s been some fairly concerted CHF weakness to go along with what’s become a strong US Dollar. We looked at playing pullbacks in the effort of buying higher-low support in the pair.

NZD/USD for USD-Strength Scenarios

Commodity currency pairs remain attractive for continuation scenarios around US Dollar strength, and NZD/USD has been one of the more attractive vehicles for such a theme. The support side of a multi-year range is in sights, and with prices breaking below the psychological .7000 level, the door is opened for a re-test of lows around .6820-.6870. We looked at this setup in mid-April just ahead of the USD bullish run, and in yesterday’s Analyst Pick, we looked at another short-side NZD/USD setup on a print of fresh lows.

NZD/USD Daily Chart: Remaining Range Potential Down to .6820-.6870

nzdusd daily chart

Chart prepared by James Stanley

AUD/USD Takes out .7500- Now What

The psychological level of .7500 has been pretty important to AUD/USD. This level helped the pair bounce in December of last year, and that bullish run lasted for 600+ pips and well into January. But sellers came back and took control of AUD/USD from February-on, and last week we looked at price revisiting that big figure of .7500. Prices have broken down after a bit of headline risk last night, and now we have fresh 11-month lows to work with. At this point, a revisit towards that .7500 level could make short-side continuation a bit more attractive.

USD/CAD with Bullish Potential for Re-Test of 1.3000

USD/CAD has continued-higher, and earlier today we saw a failed test of the 1.3000 psychological level. That bullish breakout happened after the pair spent much of the past two weeks in a range-bound fashion, and this can allow traders to re-incorporate resistance from that range as higher-low support for bullish continuation.

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--- Written by James Stanley, Strategist for DailyFX.com

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