AI Live Scan, 4-hour charts, Thursday, 17 September 2026

The last read of the day on each 4-hour chart (read every 4 hours).

• EUR/USD

  Downtrend, extension pausing · last read 21:01 UTC at 1.14789

  Price has stepped down through the whole window from 1.1689 to sub-1.1480, with each bounce capped below the previous one — the sharpest leg came on the post-FOMC bar that sliced 85 pips through the 1.1534 broken shelf after the hawkish Fed hike and dot-plot…

• GBP/USD

  Downtrend, extending with expanding range · last read 21:01 UTC at 1.33578

  Three weeks of stair-step lower highs and lower lows off 1.3675, with the 1.3446 prior low giving way this week and price accelerating into a 1.3336 swing low — the sharpest single-bar impulse of the window came as the 6-3 BoE hold underdelivered against a…

• USD/JPY

  Recovery uptrend off the 152.89 low, momentum flattening · last read 21:02 UTC at 155.971

  The 160.39 top gave way to a 750-pip slide into the 152.89 sept low, and price has since built a sequence of higher highs and higher lows, reclaiming both EMA20 and EMA50 with the faster average crossing back above the slower — a constructive ema cross in…

• USD/CHF

  Uptrend, extended after impulse · last read 21:03 UTC at 0.82453

  Sequence of higher highs and higher lows has run uninterrupted from the 0.7983 low, and the FOMC hike bar cleared the 0.8191 prior high in one 88-pip candle to the 0.8264 16-mth high — the widest single H4 range in the window.

• USD/CAD

  Uptrend, stalling under 1.4000 · last read 21:04 UTC at 1.39881

  Higher-low structure has been intact since the 1.3759 swing low, and the hawkish FOMC 25bp hike plus the widened US-Canada front-end spread powered a multi-day extension that cleared the 1.3950 pivot in a single 75-pip impulse bar — well above the ~20 pip…

• AUD/USD

  Downtrend, lower highs and lower lows · last read 21:04 UTC at 0.7110

  Sequential lower highs and lower lows since the 0.7237 print three weeks ago, with the mid-window 0.7185 prior high and the 0.7148 ema50 both left overhead after the hawkish FOMC hike narrowed Australia's rate advantage.

• NZD/USD

  Downtrend, bounce shallow · last read 21:05 UTC at 0.57328

  Persistent downtrend across the window: a sequence of lower highs from 0.5959 has carried price through the 0.5766 broken shelf, with the last impulse bar spiking to a 0.5703 swing low.

• XAU/USD

  Downtrend, corrective bounce underway · last read 21:07 UTC at 4,346.01

  The dominant H4 sequence is still lower highs — 4680, then 4510, then 4402 — with the hawkish FOMC hike and the strong retail sales/claims/Philly Fed run driving the leg into the 4235 month low.

• XAG/USD

  Downtrend, sharp counter-trend bounce underway · last read 21:08 UTC at 65.294

  H4 has trended lower since the 71.17 peak, carving a sequence of lower highs into a three-touch base at 62.30, but the last two sessions delivered a $3+ rebound that reclaimed the ema20 at 64.34 and cleared the 64.90 cap that had held the mid-window…

• BTC/USD

  Downtrend, momentum stalling · last read 21:08 UTC at 76,434.82

  H4 structure has been rolling over for two weeks: the 82.2k high gave way to successive lower highs at 79.8k and 79.5k, and the post-FOMC leg cut through the prior base into a 74.9k swing low as the hawkish dot-plot shift (2026 dots to 4.1%) tightened the…