- USD/JPY witnessed selling for the second successive day and dropped closer to the weekly low.
- The overnight break through an ascending trend-line and 200-hour SMA favours bearish traders.
- Mixed technical indicators warrant some caution before confirming a near-term top for the pair.
The USD/JPY pair extended its retracement slide from the 137.00 mark, or a fresh 24-year high touched on Wednesday and witnessed heavy selling for the second successive day on Friday. The corrective slide dragged spot prices back closer to the weekly low, though bulls showed some resilience below the 135.00 psychological mark.
Given the overnight breakdown through a two-week-old ascending trend-line, subsequent weakness below the 200-hour SMA was seen as a fresh trigger for bearish traders. The latter, currently around the 135.70 region, capped the USD/JPY pair's intraday recovery move and should now act as a key pivotal point for short-term traders.
Technical indicators, meanwhile, are holding deep in the bearish territory on hourly charts, though are still far from confirming a negative bias on the daily chart. This makes it prudent to wait for strong follow-through selling before confirming that the USD/JPY pair has topped out and positioning for any further depreciating move.
From current levels, any further decline below the 135.00 mark is likely to find decent support near the mid-134.00s, which if broken would trigger a fresh wave of technical selling. The USD/JPY pair might then weaken further below the 134.00 round figure and accelerate the fall towards testing the next relevant hurdle near the 133.60 area.
On the flip side, momentum beyond the 135.70 area (200-hour SMA) now seems to confront some resistance near the 136.00 round-figure mark. Any further recovery is more likely to attract fresh sellers and remain capped near the aforementioned ascending trend-line support breakpoint, now turned resistance, near the 136.35-136.40 region.
USD/JPY 1-hour chart
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