USDCHF—good rally

From its move off of yesterday's 1.0660 support, the pair has reached a high of 1.0758. I just took a bit more profit at +118 pips of my long from 1.0636 since I want to leave my stop fairly wide for now (although of course it's above breakeven). My concern is that the high today is not that far above yesterday morning's high although it has cleared the 1.0693 resistance. It's also above a short-term downtrend line on the hourly chart but is currently toughing it out with a much longer one coming in from April 2009. A drop back to that line at 1.0741 may cause me to add to my long position.

Support is at 1.0741, 1.0694, 1.0660/74, 1.0603, 1.0542/35, 1.0503 and 1.0435. Resistance is at 1.0758/64, 1.0786, 1.08, 1.0876, 1.09, and 1.1060.

Here's the one-hour chart:














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