{"id":11103,"date":"2010-07-15T10:45:16","date_gmt":"2010-07-15T14:45:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/countingpips.com\/fx\/?p=11103"},"modified":"2010-07-15T10:45:16","modified_gmt":"2010-07-15T14:45:16","slug":"where-could-the-swissy-go-july-15-2010","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/fx\/2010\/07\/15\/where-could-the-swissy-go-july-15-2010\/","title":{"rendered":"Where Could the Swissy Go? \u2013 July 15, 2010"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.laidtrades.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/061510usdchf.png\" alt=\"USDCHF july 15, US dollar, swiss franc, swissy, CHF, forex, forex trading, daily forex picks, currency trading, online trading\" width=\"540\" height=\"306\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Good day forex peeps! Here\u2019s my \u2018weekly\u2019 update on the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.google.com\/finance?q=usdchf\">USDCHF<\/a> pair. As you  can see from the chart, the pair has returned back in the area of the  inverted head and shoulders after it broke out and reached a high of  1.1731 last June 1. It then suffered 5 straight weeks of heavy declines  after reaching the mentioned high (click <a href=\"http:\/\/www.laidtrades.com\/2010\/07\/07\/the-swissy-defying-the-odds-july-8-2010\/\">here<\/a> to see my previous post). At present, the pair is hanging on the 1.0500  support. Should this support gives way, the pair could race towards its  previous low just below 1.0200. The swissy could even be on parity  again with the greenback if the pair breaks below 1.0200. A couple of  indicators, though, indicate that it could head higher. During the past  two weeks, the pair has drawn a bullish hammer and a doji, both of which  suggest a possible reversal to the upside. The presence of a bullish  divergence, where the price goes higher and the stochastics go lower,  also suggest a likely move north. But if the pair indeed rebounds, it  could still meet some resistance at the neckline of the former inverted  head and shoulder. A break above this could send it back to its 1.1731  high.<\/p>\n<p>On the fundamental front, despite the recent favor for the greenback  due to the markets\u2019 present bullish outlook and the US\u2019s firms\u2019 expected  stellar earnings reports, the Swissy could still lose some support if  the Swiss National Bank (SNB) decides to interfere in the forex market  to weaken the CHF. The SNB, for those who does not know, is very  notorious in doing so. In fact, interfering in the markets is one of its  major tools in keeping the Swiss economy in check. The SNB favors a  weak currency because Switzerland is highly dependent on exports. A  strong currency, therefore, could dampen the country\u2019s exports market.  In the bank\u2019s last statement, it mentioned that the strength of the CHF  has not affected the economy in a negative sense. but that was then.  After the USDCHF pair marked a 1.1731 high, the Swissy has rebounded  strongly by about 1,200 pips. Therefore, there\u2019s always an outside  chance that the bank could sooner or later purposely weaken its  currency. If it does not, then the CHF could continue its upside ride as  the global market rebounds.<\/p>\n<p>More on <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.laidtrades.com\/\">LaidTrades.com<\/a> &#8230;<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Good day forex peeps! Here\u2019s my \u2018weekly\u2019 update on the USDCHF pair. As you can see from the chart, the pair has returned back in the area of the inverted head and shoulders after it broke out and reached a high of 1.1731 last June 1. It then suffered 5 straight weeks of heavy declines &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/fx\/2010\/07\/15\/where-could-the-swissy-go-july-15-2010\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Where Could the Swissy Go? \u2013 July 15, 2010&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11103","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/fx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11103","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/fx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/fx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/fx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/fx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11103"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/fx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11103\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/fx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11103"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/fx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11103"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/fx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11103"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}