230228 - USD/CNY as leading indicator - or not?

I am investigating the extent to which USD/CNY is an indicator of future USD moves across the Majors.

First, notice on the chart how well Price-Action and Elliot Wave concepts apply to USD/CNY.
  • The levels of polarity chance sit right on the Fionacci retracements.
  • The Breakout Aug 2022, in (A), follows the description of a breakout (Pre-Breakout PA) to perfection.
  • The Breakdown Dec 2022 / resumption of trend, in (D) is beautiful in its simplicity.
  • The top reversal from Oct/Dec last year in (B) is a textbook example of a Head & Shoulders pattern.
  • The top itself (C) does also read as THE top: Long Candle up, Dark cloud Cover, Inside bar, Pin bar and a counter strike bar. Text book Dark Cloud Cover Reversal, in fact you’ll find a chart example in Steve Nison, 'Beyond Candlesticks’, p.80, that looks very similar to this one. (I checked, I did look familiar when I saw it)
  • Double bounce Jan 2023, in (D) respecting S/R levels from 6 months earlier.


LAST FRIDAY
You remember USD gained across all pairs. Bullish USD means Bearish Stocks. Friday should have been a good day for you guys. It was easy, no?
All I needed for Friday was USD/CNY, it’s what I based my decisions on.

THE BREAKOUT LAST FRIDAY WAS PRECEDED BY A BRKEAK OUT ON USD/CNY.

MEANING THAT (AT LEAST ON THAT OCCASSION) USD/CNY IS A LEADING INDICATOR, maybe just because it's the earliest market to trade on any given day.

DOLLAR INDEX (#DXY) vs USD/CNY AS INDICATOR.
I have added DXY (in orange) as an overlay. I few things I notice:

Most important takeaway;
USD/CNY tells you the start of the big move up or down within a day or 2max. USD/CNY is not useful in providing info in ranging DXY markets.

  • May-Aug 2022. DXY is frisky. Jumps down, up, up and down, arriving where it started, 3 months earlier. During this time USD/CNY remains stable. But the breakout is dead-easy to read from the USD/CNY, while DXY at that time was confusing and useless as indicator.
  • I have already explained the top-reversal on USD/CNY above. That is clear. On DXY however, the top is very frisky again, wild swings with a range, half the range of the entire wave down.
  • 1 Feb 2023. Is the bottom of the down-move on DXY. 2 Feb 2023 on USD/CNY. But USD/CNY gives you confirmation with a double bottom, which can be read as being the bottom.

    Conclusion
    For now, I suggest you add USD/CNY to your watchlists, and look for USD-pairs that respond well. (JPY and CHF are two) For those USD/CNY will be a useful indicator for timing your USD-trades.


    One last thing - the spread between the USD/CNY and DXYתמונת-בזק

    When the spread becomes too large, USD drops, but DXY drops more. We know CNY is overvalued. Chinese Central Bank manipulates it, since 2015, when USD and CNY de-pegged. But I need to investigate the spreads further.

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