USD/CHF curbed by 200-day SMA

Bulls continue to struggle with the 200-day SMA that is not letting the price to appreciate any further than 0.9324. Daily technical studies have warned us of such a possibility, but in the longer term this weakness should be surmounted, this in turn will pave the way towards 0.9386/65. In the meantime, development of a dip is expected to be prevented by 0.9303/02.

Even though the Swiss Franc is the least preferred currency among its major counterparts, being bought in only 28% of cases on average in its crosses, the share of long positions on USD/CHF has been reduced considerably, to 61% from 70% yesterday. Meanwhile, the shares of buy and sell orders are nearly equal—52 and 48 per cent respectively.