USD/CHF Price Analysis: Bounces at 18-month lows, reclaims the 0.9100 figure

After hitting 18-month-lows, the USD/CHF is back above the 0.9100 threshold.
USD/CHF Price Analysis: Remains downward biased below 0.9180, but once reclaimed, buyers would target 0.9280.

Christian Borjon Valencia FXStreet

The USD/CHF climbs sharply after diving to fresh 18-month lows at 0.9059. However, it’s staging a comeback as the greenback gets bolstered following Wednesday’s US Federal Reserve’s decision to lift rates, which initially was perceived as dovish in the FX space. Nevertheless, the US Dollar (USD) had erased most of Wednesday’s losses, a tailwind for the USD/CHF. Therefore, the USD/CHF exchanges hand at 0.9221, above its opening price by 0.50%.

USD/CHF Price Analysis: Technical outlook

After the Fed’s decision, the USD/CHF fall continued on Wednesday, reaching new YTD lows, which were broken on Thursday. As the North American session progressed, USD/CHF bulls stepped in at 0.9050s and lifted the spot back above 0.91000.

Although the USD/CHF pair holds to gains in the day, it remains downward biased and is expected to extend its losses as long as it stays below 0.9180. A breach of 0.9059, the YTD low, would set the stage to challenge the 0.9000 psychological barrier.

On the other side, if the USD/CHF reclaims the February 1 high of 0.9182, that would exacerbate a test of the 0.9200 figure. Once cleared, the 20-day Exponential Moving Average (EMA) is next, followed by the January 31 high at 0.9288, ahead of 0.9300.

USD/CHF Key Technical Levels

USD/CHF

Overview
Today last price	0.9109
Today Daily Change	0.0022
Today Daily Change %	0.24
Today daily open	0.9087

Trends
Daily SMA20	0.9224
Daily SMA50	0.9298
Daily SMA100	0.9557
Daily SMA200	0.9625

Levels
Previous Daily High	0.9184
Previous Daily Low	0.907
Previous Weekly High	0.928
Previous Weekly Low	0.9158
Previous Monthly High	0.941
Previous Monthly Low	0.9085
Daily Fibonacci 38.2%	0.9113
Daily Fibonacci 61.8%	0.914
Daily Pivot Point S1	0.9043
Daily Pivot Point S2	0.9
Daily Pivot Point S3	0.8929
Daily Pivot Point R1	0.9157
Daily Pivot Point R2	0.9228
Daily Pivot Point R3	0.9271

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Christian Borjon Valencia

FXStreet

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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