Swissy Back To Pre-SNB Floor Level
Vantage | Nov 17, 2015 11:33PM ET
And just like that, USD/CHF is back trading at the strongest level since the 1.20 EUR/CHF Swiss National Bank price floor was abandoned back on January 15.
The Swissy is back at 10 month highs, reaching the high as I publish this article of 1.01699. Remember that price did get up close to this level back in March but this time has a feeling of inevitability around a break.
USD/CHF Daily:
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So are we expecting a pop above the level? Definitely!
I’m not a fan of Central Bank intervention as 99% of the time, fighting the market is absolutely useless. We saw this when the SNB tried to keep the CHF at unnaturally weak levels against the Euro and we all know that the market was the winner in that battle.
But this isn’t intervention. The SNB of course hasn’t changed its stance of looking for a weaker CHF to help stimulate their own economy. While the ridiculous EUR/CHF price floor has gone, the central bank’s monetary policy muscle hasn’t, with negative rates now in full swing.
With the Fed also on track to raise rates in December, could this be your pre-pop opportunity to get long?
I just had to include this piece of Peter Brandt brilliance to wrap it up.
I haven’t yet got a short term entry signal so handed in my resume at the local car wash. I was quickly rejected with the following message:
“So your experience is you swap imaginary money for more imaginary money? You have zero applicable skills for the real world and your application has been rejected.”*
A simple no would have sufficed… Guess I’ll stick it out in the trading world!
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