USD/JPY: Move higher faltering at 110.00 - Commerzbank

Sandeep Kanihama FXStreet Contributor

Karen Jones, analyst at Commerzbank, suggests that for the USD/JPY pair intraday Elliott wave counts remain negative and the daily Elliott wave count continues to indicate failure ahead of 110.30 as the correction higher is faltering at 110.00.

Key Quotes

“We would then allow slippage back towards 107.75/50 band and possibly the 104.10 spike low. The recent move lower was exhaustive and we suspect that this will hold for now.”

“Above 110.30 will allow for a retest of the 111.38 the 26th October low. Support at 104.63/10 guards the 100.70 Fibonacci support and the 99.00 2016 low. Initial support lies 107.77, 10th January low.”

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Sandeep Kanihama

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Sandeep Kanihama is an FX Editor and Analyst with FXstreet having principally focus area on Asia and European markets with commodity, currency and equities coverage. He is stationed in the Indian capital city of Delhi.

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