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EUR/JPY Price Analysis: Holds the fort at 150.00 despite consecutive losses as TA shows mixed signals

  • Despite Japanese Authorities’ intervention in the FX markets, the EUR/JPY pair maintains the 150.00 mark.
  • Although the EUR/JPY is upward biased, downside risks remain, with sellers eyeing the Kijun-Sen line at 148.87.
  • The RSI and the Rate of Change are mixed, warranting caution, despite the EUR/JPY bullish bias.

EUR/JPY advances as the Wednesday Asian session begins after printing two consecutive days of losses, which witnessed the EUR/JPY pair falling from around the 151.00 figure toward the low 150.00s. Factors like a risk-off impulse, and Japanese Authorities’ vocal intervention in the Forex Markets, boosted the Japanese Yen (JPY). At the time of writing, the EUR/JPY exchanges hand at 150.04, almost flat.

EUR/JPY Price Analysis: Technical outlook

The cross-currency pair remains upward biased even though it dipped to the Ichimoku Tenkan-Sen at 149.89, but buyers staying around the area lifted the EUR/JPY to the 150.00 figure. Nevertheless, there’s some weakness on the pair, with two consecutive bearish sessions, suggesting that sellers are moving into the pair, trying to send the EUR/JPY towards the Kijun-Sen line at 148.87, which would exacerbate a drop towards the April 26 daily high of 147.91.

Conversely, the EUR/JPY first resistance would be the peak of the Chikou Span at 150.76, followed by the May 29 daily high at 151.07. A breach of the latter will expose the year-to-date (YTD) high at 151.61.

From an oscillator perspective, the Relative Strength Index (RSI) indicator is still bullish, while the 3-day Rate of Change (RoC) shifted bearishly.

Even though the EUR/JPY is bullishly biased, caution is warranted.

EUR/JPY Price Action – Daily chart

EUR/JPY

Overview
Today last price150
Today Daily Change-0.38
Today Daily Change %-0.25
Today daily open150.38
 
Trends
Daily SMA20148.93
Daily SMA50146.82
Daily SMA100144.49
Daily SMA200143.73
 
Levels
Previous Daily High151.07
Previous Daily Low150.1
Previous Weekly High150.94
Previous Weekly Low148.84
Previous Monthly High150.44
Previous Monthly Low142.55
Daily Fibonacci 38.2%150.47
Daily Fibonacci 61.8%150.7
Daily Pivot Point S1149.96
Daily Pivot Point S2149.54
Daily Pivot Point S3148.99
Daily Pivot Point R1150.94
Daily Pivot Point R2151.49
Daily Pivot Point R3151.92

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Christian Borjon Valencia

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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