The dollar up on Friday morning in Asia, mainly because of losses of Japanese Yen. (What are the Japanese trying to do? Probably trying to boost exports on a cheap currency)
The U.S. Dollar Index that tracks the greenback against a basket of other currencies gained 0.57%
The USD/JPY pair jumped 1.30% to 133.93. The Bank of Japan (BOJ) announced earlier in the day to keep policy ultra-loose despite rising inflation while global central banks are taking tight monetary policies, the yen retreated sharply.
“Because of the outside chance that the Bank of Japan would do something today, if you were sitting there long dollar-yen, the risk/reward from running that into the decision and being wrong warranted taking risk off the table,” National Australia Bank strategist Ray Attrill.
Dollar is STRONG which means the price of energy should go lower or the fears for recession might actually come true.
Our chart shows DOLLARINDEX at resistance. We are /technically speaking/ allowed to start looking for short positions on the dollar. It's not easy nor clear so the idea is to hedge.