The Daily Dashboard

The Dollar Snaps Back

Not a Single Board Name Closes Green

Friday, July 17, 2026

Trader's Brief

  • The Supercycle Score falls to 10/100, "Strong Headwind", down from Thursday's 14, as the dollar erased most of its three-day slide in a single session, jumping to 89.8% of its 52-week range from Wednesday's 85.6%.

  • For the first time this run, zero of the twelve board names closed green. Four rolled to red: gold, silver, soybeans, and the Nasdaq. The other eight sat mixed.

  • Metals took the worst of it: silver fell 3.49%, palladium 4.11%, platinum 3.29%, and gold 1.98%, the sharpest one-day metals drawdown of this run.

  • Oil's Hormuz-war rally stalled: WTI topped $80/bbl intraday for a fourth straight session after fresh US airstrikes near Bandar Abbas, but USO still closed the day down 1.71%, a genuine fade.

  • Fed-hike odds for the July 28-29 meeting were slashed to roughly 11% (from about 45% at the start of the week) on cooling inflation data, yet the dollar firmed anyway as war-driven safe-haven demand overrode the rate story.

With Brad Hoppmann

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