DXY — Sideways Absorption After Lower Value CleanoutUS Dollar IndexCAPITALCOM:DXYDanelFadejevThe U.S. Dollar is still inside a sideways market structure. This is not clean directional expansion. Price has been held inside absorption, where both sides of the range can build liquidity before the market gives a larger structural decision. The recent move into 97.694 matters because that area marks a lower value cleanout. Price has tested the lower side of the structure. In sideways structure, the question is not whether the dollar is bullish or bearish. The question is whether price has cleaned one side of value and started to rotate back toward the opposite side. For now, the higher internal value area near 98.852 remains open. That makes it a logical structural reference, not an automatic trade target. A lower value cleanout is only a data point. The dollar still needs meaningful structural validation before cross-asset exposure can be read through a rotation idea. No validation means no authorization. Sideways structure is not traded like trend structure. First, identify the range. Then mark the cleaned side. Then wait for rotation validation. Only after that can cross-assets be read with discipline. — CORE5DAN