If you traded long the U.S. Dollar or shorted another currency based on our January post or our more recent update in May
Depending on your trading time frame, you might even consider taking some profits soon.
We still believe the Power Shares DB U.S. Dollar Bullish ETF is, well, bullish. The larger upward move should travel considerably farther. However the first leg of that move may be approaching an end.
We recently posted a big-picture chart on Twitter showing our main Elliott wave scenario for UUP — an upward path persisting into 2019 and maybe longer. (Follow us on Twitter for more charts like that.) We have drawn the move as impulsive, but a three-wave pattern would be possible as an alternate scenario.
Meanwhile on a weekly chart we can see the developing structure of the first upward leg — wave (i) or (a) of the bigger move. On this smaller scale the first leg appears impulsive, and it might now be working on the final, even smaller fifth wave of the leg.
Using Gann-related methods, important resistance areas to watch are near 25.24, 25.55, and 25.87. The small impulsive structure would look more “complete” if price were to move a bit higher to test the middle resistance area, but the minimum requirements for the upward leg are already in place.