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All This Argy-Bargy IS Creating A Potential Opportunity

With the North Korean rhetoric pushing capital into the safe havens such as CHF and JPY a need for a cool head is needed. Money has been made be on the risk-off environment, however this will not last and the current movement should be seen as a shorter term pullback in the midst of bigger trending moves. In this context, let's examine EURJPY on multiple time frames.

Monthly

EURJPY
  • This is a monthly heiken ashi chart.

  • The current candle is blue.

  • This indicates a long term monthly uptrend is underway.

Weekly

EURJPY
  • This is a weekly candlestick chart.

  • There is a higher trough followed by a higher peak.

  • Therefore there is a weekly uptrend in force.

4 Hour

EURJPY
  • This is a 4H candlestick chart.

  • EURJPY has pulled back into a strong resistance turned support area (blue rectangle).

  • This area has acted as support (green arrows) and resistance (red arrows) multiple times.

  • It is certainly a level that the market has been taking notice of.

Conclusion

  • Look for a change from a risk-off to a risk-on environment.
  • When this happens we should see a bounce off current support levels as bulls take advantage of value.

Author

Russell Shor, CFTe, MFTA

Russell Shor (MSTA, CFTe, MFTA) has an Honours Degree in Economics from the University of South Africa and holds the coveted Certified Financial Technician and Master of Financial Technical Analysis qualifications from the Interna

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