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USD/CHF Price Analysis: Faces strong resistance around the 200-DMA

  • The USD/CHF slides some 0.06% in the New York session.
  • The USD/CHF has a neutral bias, as the DMAs remain horizontal, around the 0.9170-0.9220 area.

The USD/CHF extends its Tuesday’s losses, trading at 0.9157 at the time of writing. Risk-sensitive currencies remain bid, while safe-haven peers drop. In the CHF case, it gains against the greenback, following the Japanese yen footsteps, which gains some 0.14% vs. the buck.

The USD/CHF was subdued in the overnight session, trading within the 0.9140-68 band, failing to extend its Tuesday’s fall. On the bottom, the downward move was capped near the S1 daily pivot at 0.9135, while upwards, the daily pivot point at 0.9164 was the ceiling for the USD/CHF pair.

In the meantime, US Treasury yields recover from earlier losses, the 10-year benchmark note up one basis point, at 1.677%.

USD/CHF Price Forecast: Technical outlook

The USD/CHF has a neutral bias, depicted by the daily moving averages (DMAs) with a horizontal slope residing around the spot price. However, an upslope trendline drawn from December 2020 cycle lows to the June 2021 swing lows provided support, as the downward move pierced the aforementioned, rebounded strongly towards the 200-DMA around 0.9169.

To the upside, the first resistance would be the 200-DMA. A break above that level would open the door for a confluence of the 50 and the 100-DMA around 0.9205-15 area, that once broken would open the door towards the December 15 cycle high 0.9294 and then 0.9300.

On the other hand, a decisive break under the 0.9150 figure would open the door for 0.9100, followed by the November 2 swing low at 0.9085 and then the psychological 0.9000.

USD/CHF

Overview
Today last price0.9156
Today Daily Change-0.0006
Today Daily Change %-0.07
Today daily open0.9162
 
Trends
Daily SMA200.9196
Daily SMA500.9206
Daily SMA1000.9213
Daily SMA2000.9172
 
Levels
Previous Daily High0.9197
Previous Daily Low0.9137
Previous Weekly High0.9202
Previous Weekly Low0.9102
Previous Monthly High0.9295
Previous Monthly Low0.9102
Daily Fibonacci 38.2%0.916
Daily Fibonacci 61.8%0.9174
Daily Pivot Point S10.9134
Daily Pivot Point S20.9105
Daily Pivot Point S30.9074
Daily Pivot Point R10.9194
Daily Pivot Point R20.9225
Daily Pivot Point R30.9254

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Christian Borjon Valencia

Markets analyst, news editor, and trading instructor with over 14 years of experience across FX, commodities, US equity indices, and global macro markets.

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