Monday, 23 April 2018

USD/JPY Bulls are unstoppable

The USD/JPY pair incredibly rallied today and gained around 100 pips, reaching its highest level since mid February. Safe-haven assets suffered huge selling pressure as the DXY was boosted by the US Treasury yields having marked 90.63, its highest level for over a month.
The preliminary Nikkei Manufacturing PMI for April came above the expectations and meanwhile BOJ's Kuroda pointed out that Japan should continue very strong accommodative policy for some time in order to achieve the 2% inflation goal.
Technically speaking the short term outlook remain bullish until US bull will not fail again. On the four hour time frame the price is developing well above its bullish moving averages. RSI and stochastic are locating within extreme overbought areas and moreover continue to keep upward strength.
Short term support is provided by the 38.2% Fibonacci retracement of latest November to March bearish run at 108.50. But having the strong upward traction of the moving averages it seems that the pair will avoid testing of this level and is more likely to continue towards the first resistance at 109.05 which if broke next challenge will be offered by 109.40.






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