Topic archive
Short answer: this ForexTradeLab archive collects 5 research pages on DXY — education and broker mechanics, not live signals.
A practical 2026 guide to Stephen Jen and Fatih Yilmaz's dollar smile: why the US dollar can rise in a global funding squeeze and when the US is clearly leading, why the middle often softens it, and how retail traders should label the regime before they size a trade.
A practical framework for trading the US dollar around CPI, NFP and Federal Reserve decisions, focused on expectations, confirmation, risk and timing.
A clear guide to the reasons the US dollar rises or falls, including Fed policy, inflation, risk sentiment, yields, trade, oil and how USD moves affect forex pairs.
Why gold and the US dollar usually move in opposite directions, why the strength of that link varies by period, when it breaks down, and how to use DXY and real yields as filters for XAU/USD trades — with worked examples at about $4,125/oz in September 2026.
How the US dollar drives global markets — why the DXY rises or falls, Fed policy, yields, oil-dollar relationships, Gulf currency pegs and practical USD trading context.