{"id":436392,"date":"2026-08-17T22:00:14","date_gmt":"2026-08-17T15:00:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.swingfish.trade\/blog\/market-news\/nzdusd-runs-higher-but-the-stretch-higher-runs-into-swing-area-resistance-436392\/"},"modified":"2026-08-17T22:00:14","modified_gmt":"2026-08-17T15:00:14","slug":"nzdusd-runs-higher-but-the-stretch-higher-runs-into-swing-area-resistance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.swingfish.trade\/blog\/market-news\/nzdusd-runs-higher-but-the-stretch-higher-runs-into-swing-area-resistance-436392\/","title":{"rendered":"NZDUSD runs higher but the stretch higher runs into swing area resistance"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p class=\"PDq2pG_selectionAnchorContainer\">The NZDUSD is trading higher by around 0.50% on the day at 0.5919, with buyers maintaining the upper hand after the pair shifted its short-term technical bias to the upside late last week.<\/p>\n<p class=\"PDq2pG_selectionAnchorContainer\">\n<p>On Friday, the price moved back above both its 100-hour moving average at 0.5872 and 200-hour moving average at 0.58757. Reclaiming those key moving averages tilted the short-term bias in favor of the buyers and turned attention toward the late-July\/early-August swing highs near 0.59066.<\/p>\n<p>In trading today, the NZDUSD extended above that 0.59066 level, adding to the bullish momentum. The move higher, however, has run into the next important resistance zone \u2014 a swing area dating back to early April between 0.59187 and 0.59280. The high so far has reached 0.5925, putting the pair squarely within that resistance area but still short of a clean breakout.<\/p>\n<p>The subsequent pullback during the early North American session took the price back toward the former resistance at 0.59066, but buyers stepped in ahead of that level. That is a positive technical development. Former resistance is so far acting as support, keeping buyers firmly in control.<\/p>\n<p>The next challenge is clear. A sustained move above 0.59280 would strengthen the bullish bias and open the door for further upside, with the late-May high near 0.5993 becoming the next major target.<\/p>\n<p>For now, the technical picture remains tilted to the upside:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Buyers remain in control above 0.59066.<\/li>\n<li>Immediate resistance: 0.59187\u20130.59280.\n<\/li>\n<li>Break above 0.59280: Opens the door toward 0.5993.\n<\/li>\n<li>Move back below 0.59066: Would take some of the steam out of today&#8217;s bullish move and weaken the short-term technical picture.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>                            This article was written by Greg Michalowski at investinglive.com.<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The NZDUSD is trading higher by around 0.50% on the day at 0.5919, with buyers maintaining the upper hand after the pair shifted its short-term technical bias to the upside late last&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-436392","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-market-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.swingfish.trade\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/436392","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=436392"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.swingfish.trade\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/436392\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.swingfish.trade\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=436392"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.swingfish.trade\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=436392"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.swingfish.trade\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=436392"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}