AI Live Scan, 1-hour charts, Friday, 18 September 2026

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

• EUR/USD

  Downtrend, momentum stalling in a base · last read 20:02 UTC at 1.14869

  The dominant move of the week was Wednesday's NY-session collapse from the 1.1556 week high, a single bar shedding ~70 pips on the Fed's hawkish dot-plot upgrade and leaving the pre-FOMC base near 1.1530 well overhead.

• GBP/USD

  Downtrend, corrective bounce underway · last read 19:02 UTC at 1.33915

  Cable has traded a stepped downtrend all week from Monday's 1.3505 high, the week's impulse lower driven by the BoE's 6-3 hold against the Fed's hawkish hike, with the heaviest legs printed in NY hours.

• USD/JPY

  Uptrend, momentum stalling after Friday's spike · last read 19:03 UTC at 156.68

  Price has climbed from 154.21 at Monday's open to a 158.05 week high, the bulk of it in the two sessions after the BoJ's 'dovish hike' to 1.25% left JPY the clear laggard.

• USD/CHF

  Uptrend stalling, corrective pullback · last read 20:02 UTC at 0.82185

  Wednesday's hawkish Fed hike produced the week's dominant move, a single-bar impulse from 0.8181 to a week high of 0.8264 during the NY session, after which price spent two days boxed between the 0.82264 range base and that high.

• USD/CAD

  Uptrend, momentum stalling near 1.4000 · last read 20:03 UTC at 1.39902

  The week's entire move came in one bar: Wednesday's FOMC hike and hawkish dot-plot upgrade lifted USDCAD from 1.39197 to 1.39932, and price has consolidated in a tight 1.3973–1.4014 band ever since, holding well above EMA50.

• AUD/USD

  Range-bound, grinding higher off the week low · last read 20:03 UTC at 0.71261

  Wednesday's Fed hike to 3.75-4.00% with a hawkish dot-plot took AUDUSD straight out of the 0.7130s in a single hour to 0.7075, and the whole back half of the week has been a slow repair job — higher lows at 0.70885, 0.71034 and price now back above EMA(20)…

• NZD/USD

  Downtrend, momentum flat after post-FOMC drop · last read 20:05 UTC at 0.57251

  The dominant move of the window came in a single bar: the Wednesday FOMC hike dropped NZD/USD roughly 50 pips off 0.5760 and price has not reclaimed the 0.57504 thu high since, which capped the GDP-driven rebound.

• XAU/USD

  Uptrend, momentum capped at range top · last read 20:04 UTC at 4,377.85

  Gold has recovered the entire post-FOMC slide, rallying from Wednesday's 4235 low through Thursday and Friday sessions as the oil and yield pullback trimmed the dollar bid.

• XAG/USD

  Uptrend, momentum flattening · last read 20:06 UTC at 66.365

  The squeeze off Thursday's 62.30 low has run more than 500 cents in two sessions, with the oil-and-yield unwind flagged in the digest doing the work, but it stalled into the 67.32 week high late in the NY session and price has spent the last twelve hours…

• BTC/USD

  Uptrend, extended after Friday's breakout · last read 20:05 UTC at 80,934.87

  The week opened with a grind lower from 79,028 into the 74,902/74,940 double bottom carved out Wednesday and Thursday, and price then based between roughly 75,400 and 76,700 for a day and a half.