Dollar Index Rolls Over

Some traders imagined new life for the US Dollar Index, and while that may be the case long-term, in the short-term, the Index has created a false breakout only to roll back to the downside and could make new lows.

Let’s look at the daily chart:

While a positive momentum divergence did precede the breakout of the 20 and then 50 period moving average… price rolled over to shatter both averages once again, and is poised to test prior lows and could exceed those lows.

A negative momentum divergence preceded the break beneath these averages.

What clues could the weekly chart have told us to help with our forecasting?

Although price may have looked strong on the daily chart, we see that price merely made a clean price swing back to the falling 20 period weekly moving average, which has served as significant resistance over the last few years.  In fact, for FOREX traders, this could have been an elegant entry into some of their favorite currency pairs as the structure turned back down to form a price swing to the downside.

Price is coming off a new momentum low, which could also forecast lower prices are yet to come.

Also, the trend of the dollar is important not only to FOREX traders, but for commodity traders, as we saw the $CRB Index notch yet another weekly all-time high on Friday, thanks in part to Crude Oil’s stratospheric rise this week.

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