USD/CHF AI Live Scan, daily chart, Thursday, 17 September 2026
Every read JAFX AI made on the USD/CHF daily chart that day, newest first: trend, structure, the levels it marked and what it said to watch.
21:03 UTC
Uptrend, extended after breakout · RSI 72 · price 0.82487
Higher highs / higher lows, fresh 16-month high.
Four-month uptrend intact: the chain of higher lows from the mid-May low at 0.7795 through 0.8039 and 0.7950 remains unbroken, with price above a rising EMA(50) near 0.8110. This week's hawkish Fed hike and the SNB pinned at zero drove a clean break of the 0.8199 prior high and a push to a 16-month high at 0.8264, leaving RSI(14) above 70 for the first time in the window. The last two sessions have stalled just under that high, with 0.8225 acting as the band low of the new consolidation.
Support: 0.8225, 0.8199, 0.8110
Resistance: 0.8264, 0.8300, 0.8350
What it said to watch
Daily close above 0.8275 would put the 0.8300 psych barrier and then 0.8350 next resistance in focus
Loss of the 0.8225 band low, and especially a close back under the 0.8199 prior high, would mark the breakout as a false break
SNB Monetary Policy Assessment and press conference on 24 Sep — intervention language is the variable that could reshape this read
Sustained trade back below the rising EMA(50) near 0.8110 would end the higher-low sequence
11:49 UTC
Uptrend, extended after breakout · RSI 70 · price 0.82528
Higher highs / higher lows since the mid-May low, range top cleared.
Four-month uptrend intact: from the 0.7795 low in late May price has built an unbroken chain of higher lows, and the last two sessions cleared the 0.8207 prior high that had capped the June–August consolidation. The advance sits well above EMA(50) near 0.8115 with RSI(14) around 70, so the breakout is running stretched relative to the 49-pip daily ATR. Structurally this fits the slow multi-week bleed in CHF, with the SNB anchored at zero and Swiss inflation running under its own path, leaving the franc the region's funding currency.
Support: 0.8207, 0.8164, 0.8115
Resistance: 0.8264, 0.8300
What it said to watch
A weekly close back below the 0.8207 prior high would turn the breakout into a false break
Loss of 0.8164 swing low would break the higher-low chain that has held since May
US CPI is the dominant catalyst for the USD leg and can reshape this read within one to two sessions
Sustained acceptance above 0.8264 breakout hi opens the 0.8300 round number