AI Live Scan, 1-hour charts, Thursday, 17 September 2026

The last read of the day on each 1-hour chart (read every hour).

• EUR/USD

  Downtrend, impulse momentum stalled · last read 23:01 UTC at 1.14772

  The week's dominant move came in one bar: the hawkish Fed hike on Wednesday's NY session dropped EUR/USD ~65 pips through the 1.1530 breakdown shelf that had contained Monday-Wednesday chop, extending to a 1.14545 week low in the Asia hours that followed.

• GBP/USD

  Downtrend, momentum paused after impulse · last read 23:01 UTC at 1.33585

  Sterling has traded one-way lower from Monday's 1.3528 area, with every session printing a lower high; the decisive leg came in Wednesday's NY session when the Fed's 25bp hike drove a vertical break of the 1.3400 psych level.

• USD/JPY

  Uptrend, momentum flattening · last read 23:02 UTC at 155.947

  Price has climbed almost continuously from Monday's 153.42 open, with the decisive leg coming in the FOMC hour on Wednesday's NY session — a single bar from 154.83 to 155.92 that broke the 155.40/155.49 shelf and extended to the 156.41 week high.

• USD/CHF

  Uptrend, momentum paused after impulse · last read 23:02 UTC at 0.82435

  The pair broke sharply out of the 0.8182–0.8195 pre-fomc top on Wednesday's late-session Fed hike, an FOMC impulse that ran ~85 pips to the 0.82638 week high before stalling.

• USD/CAD

  Uptrend, momentum flat at the highs · last read 23:02 UTC at 1.3990

  The week's dominant move came in a single hour during the NY session after the Fed's hawkish hike, with price jumping from the 1.3920s straight through the pre-fed high at 1.3946 to 1.3993 and never looking back.

• AUD/USD

  Downtrend, corrective bounce stalling · last read 23:02 UTC at 0.7109

  Wednesday's NY session produced the week's dominant move: a near-50-pip H1 candle that sliced the 0.7120s after the hawkish Fed hike and unanimous 25bp move, extending to the 0.70744 week low.

• NZD/USD

  Downtrend, momentum flattening · last read 23:04 UTC at 0.57303

  The week's dominant move came in a single NY-session hour on Wednesday, when the hawkish Fed hike knocked NZDUSD from 0.5760 to 0.5703 and cut the pair clean out of its 0.5750-0.5800 shelf.

• XAU/USD

  Uptrend since Wednesday's low, momentum flattening · last read 23:04 UTC at 4,342.56

  The 18:00 GMT FOMC bar on Wednesday gutted gold from 4368 to the 4235 week low on the hawkish 25bp hike and lifted dots, but Thursday reversed all of it — London into the NY session drove a breakout above the pre-FOMC high to 4381.15, the week high, as…

• XAG/USD

  Uptrend, momentum cooling after impulse · last read 23:04 UTC at 65.29

  The week's dominant move came in the NY session on Thursday: after the post-FOMC flush to 62.30, price stair-stepped higher and then accelerated through 64.76 and the 65.30 area in a single run to a week high at 66.14, exactly the squeeze path the digest…

• BTC/USD

  Downtrend, momentum stalled in a base · last read 23:04 UTC at 76,299.97

  The dominant move of the week was the slide from 79,478 on Tuesday's NY session into 74,902 late Wednesday, driven by the hawkish FOMC dot-plot shift rather than any crypto-specific catalyst, with Thursday's claims (196K) and Philly Fed (37.8) beats keeping…