Don’t let the recent strength of the US Dollar fool you as we are still in a major downtrend that could be about to take a turn for the worse. We are quickly approaching a critical point in this Head & Shoulders pattern.
The $80 range is the neckline and a break through that convincingly should eventually send this index down to the $40 range over the next 5-8 years. It’s not going to happen overnight, but a slow bleed down to those levels rendering the worlds safest currency essentially worthless.
You can argue the other side of the story till you’re blue in the face, but the fact is that charts don’t lie.
The only thing that can save the dollar is if this chart morphs into some other pattern soon. It has to bounce and begin forming a series of higher highs and lower lows, or else one should start hedging by way of PowerShares DB US Dollar Index Bearish Fund (UDN) and the Street Tracks Gold Trust (GLD).
To tie this in to the earlier post regarding gold as long as trends remain bullish for the gold sector in the longer term, a large drop in the US dollar makes perfect sense. That’s not to say that it’s going to play out that way, I’m just saying that it makes sense that the dollar will be under pressure then gold should do very well in the future.
This was a guest post by Jeff Pierce (Track his trades on Covestor.com). Jeff is a full time trader based out of Vancouver Canada. Read his blog at zentrader.ca.
