EUR/JPY: Buy the dips to 119.62-41 - Natixis

Dhwani Mehta FXStreet

Analysts at Natixis provide a brief technical outlook for trading the EUR/JPY cross in the short to medium-term.

Key Quotes:

“Rallies are seen as the daily volatility has stabilized and as the daily stochastic has picked up to 121.44 (daily Bollinger moving average) ahead of 122.38 (daily parabolic) and 123.22 (daily Bollinger upper band and declining trendline).”

“This last barrier is crucial as its break would reduce the downside threats of a dip back to the supports at 119.41-119.62 (weekly Bollinger moving average) and would pave the way for a sustained recovery to 124.05-124.12 (weekly parabolic), 126.47 (weekly Bollinger upper band). Conversely a drop below 119.62 would send a strong sell signal to 115. The supports are at 120, at 119.41-119.62, at 118.46- 118.60, at 117.50, at 116.30 and 115-115.20.”

	TREND INDEX	OB/OS INDEX	VOLATILY INDEX
15M	Bullish	Neutral	Shrinking
1H	Bearish	Neutral	Low
4H	Bullish	Neutral	Expanding
1D	Bullish	Neutral	High
1W	Bearish	Neutral	Low
Updated Feb 15, 02:00 GMT

Author

Dhwani Mehta

FXStreet

Residing in Mumbai (India), Dhwani is a Senior Analyst and Manager of the Asian session at FXStreet. She has over 10 years of experience in analyzing and covering the global financial markets, with specialization in Forex and commodities markets.

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