The central planners imo manually jacked up the Dollar in June 2014 to bail out Europe and Japan. Sooner rather than later they have to drop the Dollar back down to help the allegedly strong US economy.
Check out the Dollar chart upper left.
https://finviz.com/futures_charts.ashx?t=CURRENCIES&p=m1
Now look at the Gold chart upper left.
https://finviz.com/futures_charts.ashx?t=METALS&p=m1
Gold still around $1300 is pretty respectful when you figure how high they have the BozoDollar.