{"id":436389,"date":"2026-08-17T20:50:53","date_gmt":"2026-08-17T13:50:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.swingfish.trade\/blog\/market-news\/usdchf-shifts-the-short-term-bias-to-the-downside-on-break-of-100-and-200-hour-mas-436389\/"},"modified":"2026-08-17T20:50:53","modified_gmt":"2026-08-17T13:50:53","slug":"usdchf-shifts-the-short-term-bias-to-the-downside-on-break-of-100-and-200-hour-mas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.swingfish.trade\/blog\/market-news\/usdchf-shifts-the-short-term-bias-to-the-downside-on-break-of-100-and-200-hour-mas-436389\/","title":{"rendered":"USDCHF shifts the short term bias to the downside on break of 100 and 200 hour MAs"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p class=\"PDq2pG_selectionAnchorContainer\">The USDCHF spent most of the latter part of last week trading above its 200-hour moving average (green line on the chart below), with the price largely holding that support from Tuesday onward. There were brief dips below the moving average on Wednesday and again on Friday, but both breaks were modest and short-lived and quickly reversed. The pair ultimately closed Friday above the higher 100-hour moving average (blue line on chart), currently at 0.81218, while the 200-hour moving average sits at 0.81075.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>That technical picture shifted in trading today.<\/p>\n<p>The USDCHF rotated lower during the early Asian session, breaking first below the 100-hour moving average and then the 200-hour moving average. Those breaks increased the bearish momentum and sent the price down to a low of 0.8071, just above a key swing area between 0.8060 and 0.80699.<\/p>\n<p>Buyers leaned against that support and pushed the price back higher, but the rebound has so far stalled near the broken 200-hour moving average at 0.81075. The recovery reached roughly 0.8106 before sellers reemerged. The price has since rotated back down and currently trades near 0.80945.<\/p>\n<p>That makes the 200-hour moving average an important short-term barometer. Staying below 0.81075 keeps the sellers in firmer control and would have traders looking back toward the 0.8060\u20130.80699 swing area. A break below that zone would open the door toward the 38.2% retracement of the move up from the late-May low to the July high at 0.80491.<\/p>\n<p>Below that, attention would turn toward 0.8029\u20130.8034, which represents the lower end of the broader trading range that has largely confined the pair over the past two months.<\/p>\n<p>For buyers to regain some control, the price needs to get back above the 200-hour moving average at 0.81075, followed by the 100-hour moving average at 0.81218. A sustained move above both would shift the technical bias back in the buyers&#8217; favor and put the 0.8138\u20130.81513 swing area back in play. A break above that resistance would then have traders targeting the July swing highs extending up to 0.82063.<\/p>\n<p>For now, with the price below both the 100- and 200-hour moving averages, the technical bias remains tilted to the downside.<\/p>\n<p>                            This article was written by Greg Michalowski at investinglive.com.<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The USDCHF spent most of the latter part of last week trading above its 200-hour moving average (green line on the chart below), with the price largely holding that support from Tuesday&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":216,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[86],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-436389","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-market-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.swingfish.trade\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/436389","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.swingfish.trade\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.swingfish.trade\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.swingfish.trade\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/216"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.swingfish.trade\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=436389"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.swingfish.trade\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/436389\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.swingfish.trade\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=436389"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.swingfish.trade\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=436389"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.swingfish.trade\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=436389"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}