USDJPY Breaks Short-Term Resistance, But Short Trade Overcrowded
We've seen a huge risk-off shift in sentiment over the past few trading days stemming back from last Friday that saw many safe haven assets like the Japanese yen strengthen. There's many reasons why this is including ongoing concerns of a global growth slowdown, signals of recession such as the yield curve inversion, and thematic concerns lurking in the background such as the ongoing trade war between the United States and primarily the Chines but really with the rest of the world. Short-term support was broken with the yen on Friday and no rebound occurred yesterday or as of yet today in trading to get back above that line. Moreover, our bull/bear market indicator suggests the yen is now trending bearish while price action continues to fluctuate below the 200 day moving average.
However, there are signs that a short-term uptrend could occur. This evidence mainly lies in two oscillators and a bit in sentiment. First, CCI asserts that we are fairly close to oversold territory. However, this signal was stronger on Monday morning and has since receded. More convincingly, the sentiment indicator from Madrid suggests we are in an overcrowded sold environment. Contradicting this is data from IG via DailyFX also suggests that traders are net long and that the contrarian trade is already a bit overdone with signals that sentiment is mixed. Here's that data: www.dailyfx.com/sentiment
Overall, this is difficult trading territory fundamentally and technially. While a good amount of evidence suggests we are a bit overdone in shorting dollar/yen technically, the fundamentals and the potential continued trend of global growth slowdown suggest that in the medium- to long-term that price action will flirt with much lower price levels than what investors are currently witnessing. For price targets, 105 remains a psychological barrier to overcome that the flash crash of January tested. Movement to this level is clearly not in the cards in the short- or medium-term as fluctuations between 108.50 and 111.90 are much more realistic.
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However, there are signs that a short-term uptrend could occur. This evidence mainly lies in two oscillators and a bit in sentiment. First, CCI asserts that we are fairly close to oversold territory. However, this signal was stronger on Monday morning and has since receded. More convincingly, the sentiment indicator from Madrid suggests we are in an overcrowded sold environment. Contradicting this is data from IG via DailyFX also suggests that traders are net long and that the contrarian trade is already a bit overdone with signals that sentiment is mixed. Here's that data: www.dailyfx.com/sentiment
Overall, this is difficult trading territory fundamentally and technially. While a good amount of evidence suggests we are a bit overdone in shorting dollar/yen technically, the fundamentals and the potential continued trend of global growth slowdown suggest that in the medium- to long-term that price action will flirt with much lower price levels than what investors are currently witnessing. For price targets, 105 remains a psychological barrier to overcome that the flash crash of January tested. Movement to this level is clearly not in the cards in the short- or medium-term as fluctuations between 108.50 and 111.90 are much more realistic.
For more analysis on the yen and other related issue, check out www.anthonylaurence.wordpress.com