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The pair has been extremely bullish in the H4 chart. We can draw an up trending trend line as well. I am waiting for the price to make some bearish correction followed by a bullish reversal to go long in the pair. The level of 117.910 may work as a level of support. Let us wait and watch whether the level holds the price and pushes the price towards the North.
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Might get a double top and a pull back here finally if price cant break above and hold 118.37.
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Quoting Jgcole83
Might get a double top and a pull back here finally if price cant break above and hold 118.37. {image}
You could be the right, the fall in oil prices seems to have solidified market expectations of a tamer FOMC Meeting, and it seems like traders are now waiting for the interest rate decision tomorrow with USD gains stalling relative to multiple currencies.

All trading carries risk, the level of hawkishness from the Fed will likely determine whether this pairs breaks resistance, or pulls back towards the previous resistance around 116.35.
Quoting ForexGoose
{quote} bullish, next target is 118.3 {image}
target at 118.3 reached

Next target is 120

i think that the 116 level will hold on a pullback, if any this week
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Quoting ForexGoose
{quote} target at 118.3 reached Next target is 120 i think that the 116 level will hold on a pullback, if any this week
Let's see if UJ can take out the 2017 high of ~118.680. If it does 120 could come quick and onto 2014 highs of 124.xxx
I'm currently long from 117.364.

Rate hike tomorrow.
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Short at 118.2x tp open : Tp1 117.85/ tp2: 116.68 tp 3 115.80
Quoting Blckcptl
{quote} Let's see if UJ can take out the 2017 high of ~118.680. If it does 120 could come quick and onto 2014 highs of 124.xxx I'm currently long from 117.364. Rate hike tomorrow.
I feel 120 is a definite. Possibly even 121.8 to take out the previous push for those highs, but if history repeats it will come up just short of ATH. I see us bullish into the weekend before we see a nice correction to make us forget about clearing 120, before we then turn and do. The rate decisions I have seen all initiated moves within UJ that began a week prior to the decision and continued through to the Friday after FOMC. Last Thursday as anticipated this move began during the Asian session. I was really looking forward to those 50 points though..
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Quoting HTG
{quote} This pair is so relentless. Took awhile but here we are arriving at the 118 area.

yep! UJ is a honey badger. gives 0 fucks lol. The most manipulated of pairs IMO. The turn will be a hard one.
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Quoting CityIndex
With interest rate decisions from the Fed and BOJ due this week, it'll be interesting to see whether this pair can hold/extend its breakout over the coming days, or if it pulls back towards the resistance around 116.35. Expectations are for the Fed to hike by 25bps compared to the more aggressive 50bps that was being priced just a few weeks ago, so any sort of hawkish surprise coming out of the FOMC Meeting could boost USD further. However, with Japanese consumer expectations of inflation reaching the highest on record, there is scope for JPY to...

I thought a hawkish FED boosted the Yen not the the other way around.
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I wouldn't be at all surprised to see this pair take a quick run at that 2017 high of 118.66, break it, take out a bunch of stops, then immediately crash afterwards. Of course it could keep on going north as well. Just something to look out for. I guess we'll have to wait and see.
Quoting OBsayMkMoney
{quote} I thought a hawkish FED boosted the Yen not the the other way around.
Hawkish Fed is good for the dollar bad for Yen.

Hawkish Fed is bad for the US equities market which would usually be good for the Yen because its considered a safe haven and traders typically rotate into it on down days, but the dollar and UJ have diverged from the equities market and the correlation isn't there anymore.

I said in November that I thought the dollar and UJ would diverge from the us equities market this year with rates rising.

If you watch the futures or bond market at all you would see that most traders aren't rotating into Yen or Bonds right now when the market tanks. Looks like they are just sitting on the sidelines in cash for the most part.
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Interesting lack of follow through after a fairly aggressive move up following the Fed announcement. If I was a long, I might be beginning to worry that I didn't get caught in some little game of 'who's left holding the bag' that they love to play.
Doesn't matter what tf you use there's divergence in rsi and price.

Minute, hourly, daily, weekly, monthly. Doesn't matter.

I won't touch UJ without a respectable pullback. Too much risk.
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Looks like it's attempting to close the day strong. If it does, and especially if it can stay above 118.66, then it might have some more follow through. Usd/Chf on the other hand is looking decidedly more sluggish atm.
Quoting Jgcole83
{quote} Hawkish Fed is good for the dollar bad for Yen. Hawkish Fed is bad for the US equities market which would usually be good for the Yen because its considered a safe haven and traders typically rotate into it on down days, but the dollar and UJ have diverged from the equities market and the correlation isn't there anymore. I said in November that I thought the dollar and UJ would diverge from the us equities market this year with rates rising. If you watch the futures or bond market at all you would see that most traders aren't rotating into...
yes. Normally sp500 and USDJPY are decently correlated.

what is interesting with the Russian invasion. 10yr UST yield stayed high. A dip but mostly held up. Market is trading inflation/Fed tightening more than fear.

Selling USDJPY while usually a safe haven play, wasn’t going to work (lost some pips) with the point about the UST10. ALSO Japan being hugely reliant on Oil and many commodities, during those spikes upwards, did put pressure on Yen as we saw the USDJPY take off a stunning move. Man, it looked like banks were using the added selling pressure to buy as much as they could for anyone like me selling USDJPY the whole time.

I got more short after 119 after the rate hike. Holding still.
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Been pretty sluggish ever since spike up following the Fed rate hike. If there is a break of intermediate trendline (which also coincides with most recent 8 hr candle), could see some more bears begin come in. Might start looking for shorts. It's had a huge run up. Some degree of correction is becoming more likely at this point.

Edit: Shorted @118.81.
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Quoting ICouldBWrong
Been pretty sluggish ever since spike up following the Fed rate hike. If there is a break of intermediate trendline (which also coincides with most recent 8 hr candle), could see some more bears begin come in. Might start looking for shorts. It's had a huge run up. Some degree of correction is becoming more likely at this point. Edit: Shorted @118.81. {image}
Closed half order @118.42 for 39 pips profit. Trailing stop for the rest.
Anytime there's a 20 - 25 pip reversal and no immediate bounce I always watch closely for a correction.

Looking at the last leg up 50% retracement would bring us to 117 -116.90 area.

If that doesn't hold I'm looking at the previous breakout at 116.35 to act as support.

4hr chart looks like it's rolling over.
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It's flagging on the hourly charts btw.

Bear flags.
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