USD Index Monthly

The shadow of November's candle on the monthly chart below dipped below the uptrend line which is not good news. That particular low of 75.63 came on the day the Fed announced the latest news of quantitative easing (November 4th). It does need to hold and better would be holding the low of 77.98 from later in the month. However, as we're in the thin holiday markets extreme moves can happen without meaning much technically.

There's a lot of indecision out there. The USD is poised technically to go higher yet the last three days of last week were basically sideways movement. Nonetheless, with the strong support and the strong November candle, one would expect from the monthly chart that the next move will be up. Here's the chart:



















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