USDX technical analysis for January 4, 2016

The US dollar index has started the year in a very defensive position as sellers push it lower towards important short-term support at 98. The short-term picture is mixed and traders should be very cautious as if sellers find no resistance from buyers, then we should not cancel out a move back towards 96.

Blue line - trend-line support

The US dollar index is testing the blue trend-line support and the Ichimoku cloud support at 98. A break below this support will push the index towards 97, which is the next important horizontal support. Breaking below it will open the way for 96.

The weekly chart shows us that if this week continues as bad as it started, we should be expecting the US dollar index to move towards the weekly kijun-sen (yellow indicator) support at 96.60 and maybe lower towards 96 at the upper weekly cloud boundary. Resistance is at 99 and it must be broken in order to have a confirmed bullish reversal with eyes on new highs next.The material has been provided by InstaForex Company - www.instaforex.com