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USDCHF at 0.83336, New York range 18.3 pips

FOMC Meeting Minutes at 18:00 UTC is the next high-impact release, 264 minutes away

USDCHF · New York session · Published Oct 7, 2026, 1:35 PM

USDCHF last traded at 0.83336, inside a New York session that has run 18.3 pips between 0.83208 and 0.83391. The nearest level above is the previous session high at 0.83386, 5 pips away, and the nearest below is the prior day high at 0.83266, 7 pips below.

London closed at 0.83250 after a 21.6 pip range between 0.83170 and 0.83386. An ordinary day of the last 14 covers 50.6 pips, and the latest day sits at the 7th percentile of the last 42 days we hold, which is a calm day for this market.

The calendar holds 8 scheduled releases of impact 2 or 3 in the 24 hours to 2026-10-08 13:35 UTC. The FOMC Meeting Minutes at 18:00 UTC is graded impact 3 of 3, and past fomc_usd releases moved USDCHF 7.27 pips on average in the first 15 minutes and 12.54 in the first 60, in either direction.

Large speculators are net short 24617 contracts, a change of 2135 on the week, the 4th percentile of the last 52 weekly reports. The most recent headline, from FXStreet at 12:30 UTC, is graded impact 2 of 3 for USDCHF.

Session brief

  1. USDCHF, New York sessionOpen 0.83250, high 0.83391, low 0.83208, close 0.83336: a range of 18.3 pips over 96 minutes, from our own one-minute candles.
  2. USDCHF reference levelsPrevious day and previous week high and low, the session open and the round numbers either side, measured on our own candles.
  3. USDCHF, London sessionOpen 0.83232, high 0.83386, low 0.83170, close 0.83250: a range of 21.6 pips over 300 minutes, from our own one-minute candles.
  4. USDCHF daily rangeAn ordinary day of the last 14 covers 50.6 pips. The latest day sits at the 7th percentile of the last 42 days we hold, which is a calm day for this market. Measured on our own candles.
  5. Economic calendar for USD and CHF8 scheduled releases of impact 2 or 3 in the 24 hours to 2026-10-08 13:35 UTC. Our calendar covers up to 2026-11-06 00:00 UTC.
  6. USDCHF reaction to fomc_usdOver 117 past releases USDCHF moved 7.27 pips on average in the first 15 minutes and 12.54 in the first 60, in either direction. Measured on our own one-minute candles.
  7. CFTC Commitments of Traders, 092741Large speculators are net short 24617 contracts, a change of 2135 on the week. That is the 4th percentile of the last 52 weekly reports.
  8. US Dollar: Assessing NFP release reliability – Standard CharteredFXStreet. Graded impact 2 of 3 for USDCHF by our headline classifier.
  9. USD FOMC Meeting MinutesScheduled 2026-10-07 18:00 UTC, impact 3 of 3. From Forex Factory.

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