AI Live Scan, 4-hour charts, Friday, 18 September 2026

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

• EUR/USD

  Downtrend, impulsive legs with sideways pauses · last read 17:01 UTC at 1.1463

  Three weeks of stair-stepping lower: 1.1687 gave way to 1.1586, then the 1.1530 prior shelf broke on the post-Fed hawkish dot-plot repricing, dropping price straight to the 1.1455 six-wk low.

• GBP/USD

  Downtrend, momentum extending · last read 15:25 UTC at 1.33453

  An unbroken sequence of lower highs and lower lows has carried Cable from 1.3656 to a 7-week low at 1.3336 over the three-week window, with the BoE's 6-3 hold against the Fed's 25bp hike accelerating the last leg.

• USD/JPY

  Uptrend, extended after spike rejection · last read 17:03 UTC at 156.85

  USDJPY has built an unbroken sequence of higher lows since the 152.89–153.25 base, and the break above the 156.30–156.41 shelf carried into a 158.05 week high after the BoJ's 25bp 'dovish hike' undershot jumbo-hike pricing while the Fed's hawkish dots kept…

• USD/CHF

  Uptrend, extension pausing near highs · last read 17:04 UTC at 0.82414

  Higher-low structure has held since the 0.8052 swing low, and the hawkish Fed hike produced a single 88-pip H4 impulse bar that broke the 0.8200 shelf and printed a 16-mo high at 0.82638.

• USD/CAD

  Uptrend, extended but intact · last read 17:05 UTC at 1.40078

  Price has built a clean sequence of higher highs and higher lows since the 1.3759 swing low, with the hawkish Fed hike and the widened Fed/BoC spread doing the work on the way up.

• AUD/USD

  Downtrend, momentum flattening · last read 17:05 UTC at 0.71097

  Clear lower-high sequence since the 0.72374 pivot, with the hawkish Fed hike and upgraded dot plot forcing the impulsive 64-pip bar that printed the 0.70744 month low.

• NZD/USD

  Downtrend, steady lower highs · last read 17:06 UTC at 0.57097

  NZDUSD has ground out an unbroken chain of lower highs and lower lows from 0.5985 down to the 0.5703 swing low, with the Fed's hike to 4.00% and the hawkish dot plot doing most of the work on the USD leg.

• XAU/USD

  Downtrend, momentum stalling after the 4235 low · last read 17:06 UTC at 4,355.39

  The multi-week sequence of lower highs from 4680 through 4510 and 4443 is still the dominant structure, but the last four sessions have carved higher lows off the 4235 range low after the hawkish FOMC hike flushed price to a one-month low and yields then…

• XAG/USD

  Corrective uptrend off the 62.30 base, momentum extending · last read 13:06 UTC at 66.848

  Silver carved a double bottom at 62.30/62.33 into the FOMC and has rallied roughly four dollars since, reclaiming the 64.15 neckline and then the 66.56 break level as crude unwound and the US 10y slipped off 5%.

• BTC/USD

  Downtrend, sharp counter-trend rebound · last read 17:09 UTC at 80,568.27

  Price spent three weeks grinding lower from the 82,178 3-week high through successive lower highs (79,478, then 78,345), with the hawkish Fed hike to 4% and the lifted dot path driving the flush into twin lows at 74,902/74,940.