The dropping Dollar is trying to hang onto a potentially important line of support.

There has been very intriguing action of late in financial markets across the spectrum. And whether it’s various equity markets, foreign or domestic, commodities, currencies or fixed income, much of the action can be tied to, if not attributed to, one thing — the falling U.S. Dollar. Obviously the Dollar can have a significant impact on other markets.  That fact has many market participants asking “where will the falling buck stop?” Well, from a glance at the chart of the U.S. Dollar Index (DXY), there is a technical argument for at least a halt in the pace of the Dollar’s decline right here.

On our Twitter feed (@JLyonsFundMgmt), we do a feature every week called #TrendlineWednesday (sometimes, we even get around to it on Wednesdays). Today’s edition included a trendline on the DXY that also served as our Chart Of The Day. That was due to the age of the trendline as well as its immediate relevancy to current prices.

The Down trendline in question originates at the DXY’s top back in 1985 and connects the peak in 2001-2002. The trendline was eventually broken in early 2015. Since then, the former line of resistance has served as support whenever prices have dropped back down to test the top of the line. This was the case in mid-2015 and mid-2016. And Dollar bulls are hoping it is the case now as the DXY is once again testing the top of that broken post-1985 Down trendline.

So will the “buck stop here”? There are no certainties. However, today’s intra-day rebound in the Dollar, presumably spurred by President Trump’s strong-Dollar comments, occurred just as the DXY was testing the top of the trendline. Now, you may think that’s a random happenstance; however, after carefully scrutinizing the charts for many decades, we’re not big on the notion of coincidences.

Perhaps price movements occur because of contact with a specific technical chart level, or perhaps the proximity of prices on a chart create the conditions and opportunity for a “news-catalyzed” move in prices. Or perhaps both. However, we have found that there is typically a sound technical reason for why prices move when and where they do.

So perhaps the trendline in question will indeed support the Dollar and put a halt to its immediate decline. If so, it still doesn’t guarantee that the Dollar will begin to rally in earnest, or at all. What it does have to offer is a potential limit on the pace of the Dollar’s decline and I think Dollar bulls will take that at this point.

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