{"id":194417,"date":"2026-07-08T07:13:42","date_gmt":"2026-07-08T07:13:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mycryptomania.com\/?p=194417"},"modified":"2026-07-08T07:13:42","modified_gmt":"2026-07-08T07:13:42","slug":"what-actually-moves-the-us-dollar-and-why-should-you-care","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mycryptomania.com\/?p=194417","title":{"rendered":"What actually moves the US Dollar \u2014 and why should you care?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Meet <strong>DXY<\/strong>, the US Dollar Index\u200a\u2014\u200aa single number that tracks the dollar\u2019s strength against a basket of 6 major currencies (with the euro doing over half the heavy lifting\u00a0\ud83d\udc40).<\/p>\n<p>\ud83d\udcca Rising DXY? EUR\/USD and Gold usually fall.<br \/> \ud83d\udcc8 It\u2019s one of the most underrated tools for confirming your forex trades before you click Buy or\u00a0Sell.<\/p>\n<p>In our latest guide, we break down:<br \/> \ud83d\udd39 How DXY is actually calculated<br \/> \ud83d\udd39 What moves it (hint: the Fed matters\u200a\u2014\u200aa lot)<br \/> \ud83d\udd39 Its correlation with gold, oil &amp; major FX pairs<br \/> \ud83d\udd39 Step-by-step: how to trade it on MetaTrader 5<\/p>\n<p>Ready to trade smarter? \ud83d\udc47<br \/> \ud83d\udd17 <a href=\"https:\/\/nordfx.com\/useful-articles\/what-is-the-us-dollar-index-dxy?utm_source=social&amp;utm_medium=post&amp;utm_campaign=nordfx\">https:\/\/nordfx.com\/useful-articles\/what-is-the-us-dollar-index-dxy?utm_source=social&amp;utm_medium=post&amp;utm_campaign=nordfx<\/a><\/p>\n<p>#Forex #DXY #USDollarIndex #TradingTips #NordFX #ForexTrading<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/medium.com\/coinmonks\/what-actually-moves-the-us-dollar-and-why-should-you-care-699a98794d80\">\ud83d\udcb5 What actually moves the US Dollar \u2014 and why should you care?<\/a> was originally published in <a href=\"https:\/\/medium.com\/coinmonks\">Coinmonks<\/a> on Medium, where people are continuing the conversation by highlighting and responding to this story.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Meet DXY, the US Dollar Index\u200a\u2014\u200aa single number that tracks the dollar\u2019s strength against a basket of 6 major currencies (with the euro doing over half the heavy lifting\u00a0\ud83d\udc40). \ud83d\udcca Rising DXY? EUR\/USD and Gold usually fall. \ud83d\udcc8 It\u2019s one of the most underrated tools for confirming your forex trades before you click Buy or\u00a0Sell. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":194418,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-194417","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-interesting"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mycryptomania.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/194417"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mycryptomania.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mycryptomania.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mycryptomania.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=194417"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mycryptomania.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/194417\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mycryptomania.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/194418"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mycryptomania.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=194417"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mycryptomania.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=194417"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mycryptomania.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=194417"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}