What actually moves the US Dollar — and why should you care?

Meet DXY, the US Dollar Index — a single number that tracks the dollar’s strength against a basket of 6 major currencies (with the euro doing over half the heavy lifting 👀).

📊 Rising DXY? EUR/USD and Gold usually fall.
📈 It’s one of the most underrated tools for confirming your forex trades before you click Buy or Sell.

In our latest guide, we break down:
🔹 How DXY is actually calculated
🔹 What moves it (hint: the Fed matters — a lot)
🔹 Its correlation with gold, oil & major FX pairs
🔹 Step-by-step: how to trade it on MetaTrader 5

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