GBP/JPY Price Analysis: Hits YTD highs on risk-on sentiment, retraces as a rising wedge forms

GBP/JPY surges to year's high, up by 0.18%, amid positive market sentiment.
Expectations of a dovish Fed and resolution of the US debt-ceiling imbue strength to high beta currencies.
Despite the overall upward bias, the technical outlook suggests potential downside pressure on GBP/JPY.

Christian Borjon Valencia FXStreet

GBP/JPY climbed to fresh year-to-date (YTD) highs at 174.68 before a pullback that dragged the exchange rate toward the 174.10s area. A risk-on impulse caused expectations for a dovish US Federal Reserve (Fed) amongst geopolitical issues like the US debt-ceiling resolution underpinned high beta currencies. Therefore, safe-haven peers persisted pressured, as the GBP/JPY traded at 174.12, up 0.18%.

GBP/JPY Price Analysis: Technical outlook

The GBP/JPY is still upward biased, confirmed by price action widening its distance from the Tenkan-Sen and Kijun-Sen lines below the exchange rate. In addition, price action is another bullish signal above the Ichimoku cloud.

Nevertheless, an upslope resistance trendline from the May 2 highs cushioned the GBP/JPY rally; while a support trendline, drawn from the April and May lows, indicates a rising wedge forming. That means further downside pressure is expected.

If GBP/JPY falls below the 174.00 figure, the next support would be the Tenkan-Sen at 172.95. A breach of the latter will expose the 2022 high turned support at 172.13 before testing April 28 daily high at 171.16. Conversely, the uptrend would continue above the YTD high at 174.68 once cleared, and the GBP/JPY could rally to the 175.00 mark, followed by the 2016 high at 177.37.

GBP/JPY Price Action – Daily chart

GBP/JPY

Overview
Today last price	174.27
Today Daily Change	0.42
Today Daily Change %	0.24
Today daily open	173.85

Trends
Daily SMA20	171.61
Daily SMA50	168.22
Daily SMA100	164.6
Daily SMA200	164.42

Levels
Previous Daily High	174.19
Previous Daily Low	172.97
Previous Weekly High	173.74
Previous Weekly Low	171.2
Previous Monthly High	174.28
Previous Monthly Low	167.84
Daily Fibonacci 38.2%	173.73
Daily Fibonacci 61.8%	173.44
Daily Pivot Point S1	173.15
Daily Pivot Point S2	172.45
Daily Pivot Point S3	171.93
Daily Pivot Point R1	174.37
Daily Pivot Point R2	174.89
Daily Pivot Point R3	175.59

Author

Christian Borjon Valencia

FXStreet

Christian Borjon began his career as a retail trader in 2010, mainly focused on technical analysis and strategies around it. He started as a swing trader, as he used to work in another industry unrelated to the financial markets.

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