By Saqib Iqbal Ahmed and Laura Matthews NEW YORK (Reuters) -The U.S. dollar has steadied since a record slide earlier this year, but many currency market players still view the greenback as locked in a bearish trend and are bracing themselves for further losses. The dollar index fell about 11% in the six months through June in one of its steepest declines on record. The greenback has steadied in recent weeks along with a sharp pullback in bearish futures bets. As of last week, speculators’ net short dol ...