AUD/JPY Price Analysis: Hovers around 93.80-94.40 area, trendless despite the upbeat mood

AUD/JPY has been seesawing within a 60-pip trading range for the last couple of days.
The AUD/JPY daily chart is neutral, while the hourly time-frame further cements the case for consolidation.

Christian Borjon Valencia FXStreet

The AUD/JPY finished Wednesday’s session almost flat, forming a quasi dragonfly-doji, meaning that neither buyers/sellers dominated the trading session amidst a risk-on impulse. Factors like lower-than-expected US inflation and tempering tensions between China-Taiwan improved risk appetite. At the time of writing, the AUD/JPY is trading at 94.05, down 0.02%, as the Asian session begins.

AUD/JPY Price Analysis: Technical outlook

The AUD/JPY daily char chart illustrates the pair as neutral bias, with the 20 and 50-day EMAs meandering around the exchange rate, a reason to think that consolidation lies ahead. Further confirming the aforementioned, Wednesday’s price action printing a dragonfly-doji, indecision amongst AUD/JPY traders.

Switching towards a short-term picture, the AUD/JPY has been seesawing for the last couple of days, within the 93.80-94.40 area, with some candles breaching the aforementioned levels. Still, the price has returned to its “mean reversion” area.

Upwards, the AUD/JPY’s first resistance would be the August 10 high at 94.30. Once cleared, the next supply zone will be the weekly high at 94.43, followed by the psychologically 95.00 area. On the other hand, the AUD/JPY first support will be the 94.00 area. A breach of the latter will send the cross towards the 100-hour EMA at 93.72 (tested on August 10), followed by the August 10 daily low at 93.47.

AUD/JPY Hourly chart

AUD/JPY Key Technical Levels

AUD/JPY

Overview
Today last price	94.08
Today Daily Change	0.04
Today Daily Change %	0.04
Today daily open	94.04

Trends
Daily SMA20	93.96
Daily SMA50	93.85
Daily SMA100	92.87
Daily SMA200	87.9

Levels
Previous Daily High	94.4
Previous Daily Low	93.9
Previous Weekly High	93.81
Previous Weekly Low	90.52
Previous Monthly High	95.76
Previous Monthly Low	91.42
Daily Fibonacci 38.2%	94.09
Daily Fibonacci 61.8%	94.21
Daily Pivot Point S1	93.83
Daily Pivot Point S2	93.62
Daily Pivot Point S3	93.33
Daily Pivot Point R1	94.32
Daily Pivot Point R2	94.61
Daily Pivot Point R3	94.82

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Christian Borjon Valencia

FXStreet

Markets analyst, news editor, and trading instructor with over 14 years of experience across FX, commodities, US equity indices, and global macro markets.

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