USD The dollar carried on with its recovery on Thursday, as risk remained off but traders started pricing the possibility that Washington will come up with a budget deal over the weekend.  Profit-taking scenarios similar to last week’s dollar r...

USD/JPY has recently broken below the long-term rising trend line on the 4-hour time frame, signaling that the uptrend may be over. Before heading any lower though, USD/JPY could still retrace to the broken support zone. The US government is still shut...

USD The U.S. dollar was able to bounce back to action yesterday, but it remains to be seen whether this is just a temporary pullback.  The FOMC minutes showed that policymakers were open to tapering within the year, but this was before the week-long...

GBP/AUD has been moving sideways on its 4-hour chart, as it found support at 1.6900 and resistance at 1.7400. Right now, it is testing the bottom of the range while stochastic is starting to move out of the oversold region. This suggests that a bounce...

USD The US dollar was able to make a quick bounce in the Asian session but gave up its intraday gains back to its major counterparts, as the lawmakers in Washington still haven’t reached a deal on the budget.  This means that the shutdown in t...

CAD/JPY’s downtrend is still very much intact, as the falling trend line connecting the price’s highs is still holding on the 1-hour time frame.  The pair just made a couple of tests of the trend line earlier this week and it appears that it cou...

USD The US dollar struggled to hold its ground at the start of the week as the continued government shutdown discouraged traders from taking long dollar positions.  The consumer credit report came in better than expected and reflected stronger...

AUD/USD could be in for a decline today as the .9450 minor psychological level has been holding well as resistance so far. A drop could last until the recent support around the .9350 minor psychological level. The intraweek resistance is in line with...

USD The US dollar recovered some of its recent losses for the previous week on Friday, as risk aversion popped its head in the markets. It also helped that a lot of traders booked profits at the end of the week.  EUR/USD pulled back to the 1.3600...

GBP/USD suffered a sharp selloff on Friday but it appears that the longer-term uptrend is still intact, as evidenced by the rising channel on the 4-hour time frame. The pair is hovering around the middle of the channel around the 1.6050 minor psychological...