AUD/USD Forecast This Week — Outlook, Drivers & Key Levels
This week's AUD/USD outlook: key drivers, volatility context, risk-opportunity assessment and the week ahead.
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Japanese Yen Key Levels This Week — Support, Resistance & Confluence Zones
Japanese Yen key levels breakdown: support zones, resistance zones, confluence and price structure.
Japanese Yen Forecast This Week — Outlook, Drivers & Key Levels
This week's Japanese Yen outlook: key drivers, volatility context, risk-opportunity assessment and the week ahead.
Gold Forecast This Week — Outlook, Drivers & Key Levels
This week's Gold outlook: key drivers, volatility context, risk-opportunity assessment and the week ahead.
Japanese Yen COT & Institutional Positioning — Smart Money Analysis
Japanese Yen institutional positioning: COT data, sentiment analysis and smart money flow assessment.
Gold Key Levels This Week — Support, Resistance & Confluence Zones
Gold key levels breakdown: support zones, resistance zones, confluence and price structure.
EUR/USD Forecast This Week — Outlook, Drivers & Key Levels
This week's EUR/USD outlook: key drivers, volatility context, risk-opportunity assessment and the week ahead.
Wheat COT & Institutional Positioning — Smart Money Analysis
Wheat institutional positioning: COT data, sentiment analysis and smart money flow assessment.
Soybeans Key Levels This Week — Support, Resistance & Confluence Zones
Soybeans key levels breakdown: support zones, resistance zones, confluence and price structure.
Copper COT & Institutional Positioning — Smart Money Analysis
Copper institutional positioning: COT data, sentiment analysis and smart money flow assessment.
Wheat Key Levels This Week — Support, Resistance & Confluence Zones
Wheat key levels breakdown: support zones, resistance zones, confluence and price structure.
AUD/USD COT & Institutional Positioning — Smart Money Analysis
AUD/USD institutional positioning: COT data, sentiment analysis and smart money flow assessment.
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Platinum (PL) — Below noise threshold — range-bound assessment
Market in prolonged low-volatility consolidation between $1,705 and $1,840 after absorbing the September 16 FOMC rate hike and WPIC surplus revision from 297koz deficit to 265koz surplus, with no clear directional catalyst ahead of the November 18 WPIC Quarterly report
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30-Year Treasury (ZB) — The market may be overpricing the hawkish repricing trajectory at the point of…
Market pricing structural bearish duration environment with 30Y at 5.49-5.50% (2004 highs); ZB crashing to 52-week low after -2.79% weekly collapse accelerated by hawkish Fed repricing pricing 65-71% probability of October 25bp hike; MOVE Index spiking 30% to 104 confirming bond market panic; Bessen
Weekly Review
Mon-T Weekly Review — w/e 25 Sept 2026
The Nasdaq rips 4.3% on PMI fireworks, the desk goes four from five, and ten NO CALLs watch bonds implode and gold bleed out.
Market Of The Week: ★Nasdaq 100 (NQ)★ S&P Global Composite PMI (Sep) with estimate 55.2 vs previous 56.0, alongside…
Nasdaq 100 (NQ): The market may be overweighting September seasonal anxiety and the 10Y yield above 5% as structural headwinds while underweighting the dramatic institutional positioning shift (COT net longs +61% weekly to 83.5th percentile) and the extreme retail bearishness (-24.5% AAII spread) th
Core
Gold (GC) — Post-FOMC digestion: The Fed's unanimous 25bp rate hike on Sep 16 to…
Split between structural bulls (central bank buying, seasonality, institutional year-end targets $4,500-$6,000) and tactical bears (hawkish Fed, 5%+ yields, technical downtrend below 200-day MA) — with no clear prevailing direction after gold rallied through the Sep 16 rate hike
Core
EUR/USD (6E) — -0.8 between 1.146 support and 1.157 resistance with 5/10 confidence
EUR/USD grinding lower toward 1.1460-1.1364 support as Fed-ECB rate differential widens and Eurozone PMIs expected to show contraction — institutional bank year-end targets of 1.20-1.25 remain conditional on a Fed pivot that appears distant with US 10Y at 5.01%
Core
S&P 500 (ES) — Signal below Min Signal threshold — directional edge insufficient for bias
Cautiously neutral as S&P 500 holds near 7,650 despite 5% 10-year yields and extreme breadth contraction, with market awaiting PMI data and Fed guidance this week for directional catalyst
Core
Crude Oil (CL) — Trump signals potential Iran war endgame (CNBC Sep 17) — 'hopefully we are…
Market divided and uncertain — Polymarket shows 100% probability of WTI below $95 for September settlement, but the binary risk of Hormuz peace vs renewed escalation keeps conviction thin; the -4.64% weekly decline reflects market pricing in the first credible de-escalation signal since June
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GBP/USD (6B) — consolidating in low regime
GBP at 1.3392 near two-month lows below $1.34 following BoE Sep 17 hold at 3.75% (6-3 vote), with mixed discipline signals preventing conviction ahead of UK PMI data, BoE Bailey speech, and US Durable Goods in the week ahead
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Japanese Yen (6J) — 0.28 between 0.0063 support and 0.00646 resistance with 5/10 confidence
Market bearish JPY near-term after 'sell the fact' BOJ reversal with USD/JPY rising above 156.86; extreme speculative long positioning (+120K contracts, 88th percentile) vulnerable to further liquidation; consensus sees 155-158 range near-term with Japan PMI and US data as next catalysts
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Copper (HG) — 1.8 between 6.5 support and 6.7 resistance with 7/10 confidence
Copper trading near all-time nominal highs supported by structural supply deficit and El Niño production disruptions, but consolidating after the Fed's 25bp rate hike and tariff uncertainty with COT de-risking from extreme levels and LME stocks rising modestly
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Silver (SI) — FOMC September 15-16 delivered the 25bp rate hike the market had priced at 80%…
Market consensus is cautiously constructive post-FOMC hike — the rate increase was fully priced, and silver's recovery to $66.56 supports the 'sell the rumour, buy the fact' narrative, with CoinCodex algorithm projecting $70.71 by Sep 26 and GoldSilver emphasizing that institutional positioning at t