USD/CHF Technical Analysis: Greenback bulls en route to the parity level against CHF

Flavio Tosti Independent Analyst

USD/CHF daily chart

USD/CHF is trading in a sideways trend below the 50-day simple moving average (SMA).

USD/CHF 4-hour chart

USD/CHF is trading above the 50, 100 and 200 SMAs suggesting bullish momentum.

USD/CHF 30-minute chart

USD/CHF is trading above its main SMAs suggesting that the market has room to move up to the parity level (1.0000).
To the downside, support is seen near the 0.9950 and 0.9980 levels.

Additional key levels

USD/CHF

Overview:
    Today Last Price: 0.9974
    Today Daily change: 0.0017 pips
    Today Daily change %: 0.17%
    Today Daily Open: 0.9957
Trends:
    Daily SMA20: 0.9861
    Daily SMA50: 0.9924
    Daily SMA100: 0.9888
    Daily SMA200: 0.9896
Levels:
    Previous Daily High: 0.996
    Previous Daily Low: 0.9931
    Previous Weekly High: 0.996
    Previous Weekly Low: 0.9799
    Previous Monthly High: 1.0009
    Previous Monthly Low: 0.979
    Daily Fibonacci 38.2%: 0.9949
    Daily Fibonacci 61.8%: 0.9942
    Daily Pivot Point S1: 0.9939
    Daily Pivot Point S2: 0.992
    Daily Pivot Point S3: 0.991
    Daily Pivot Point R1: 0.9968
    Daily Pivot Point R2: 0.9978
    Daily Pivot Point R3: 0.9997

Author

Flavio Tosti

Independent Analyst

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