USD/JPY Bears Lose Control at 78.6% Fibonacci

Chris Svorcik Elite CurrenSea

The USD/JPY made a bearish continuation after breaking below the support trend line (dotted blue) but the price has now reached a key reversal spot at the 78.6% Fibonacci support zone. Will the USD/JPY make a reversal or break the Fibs and confirm a downtrend?

USD/JPY

4 hour

The USD/JPY long-term direction could soon be decided. The breakout direction will be the decisive factor whether the price will enter into a long-term up or downtrend. For the moment, the current wave outlook is favoring the end of the wave 2 (pink) at the 78.6% Fibonacci retracement level after a bearish ABC (purple) pattern. A break above the resistance trend lines (red) could confirm that where a break below the 100% Fibonacci of wave 2 vs 1 invalidates this forecast.

1 hour

The USD/JPY seems to have completed 5 bearish waves (blue) at the most recent low, which in turn could complete wave C (purple) of wave 2 (pink). Currently, price action seems to be confirming a first bullish impulse (green waves) within a wave 1 (blue). If the price does complete 5 bullish waves, then an ABC retracement is likely to take place as part of a bearish correction in a wave 2.

The analysis has been done with the CAMMACD.MTF template.

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Chris Svorcik

Elite CurrenSea

Experience Chris Svorcik has co-founded Elite CurrenSea in 2014 together with Nenad Kerkez, aka Tarantula FX. Chris is a technical analyst, wave analyst, trader, writer, educator, webinar speaker, and seminar speaker of the financial markets.

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