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USD/JPY Price Analysis: Overbought RSI onset corrective pullback toward 111.00

  • USD/JPY records fresh daily losses on Friday in the European session.
  • The pair records a second straight day fall composed of more than 100-pips.
  • Momentum oscillators hold onto the overbought zone and  hint more downside for the pair.

USD/JPY extend the previous session’s declines on the last trading day of the week. The pair opened near the 111.50 mark albeit fizzled out rather quickly in the early European trading hour. At the time of writing, USD/JPY is trading at 111.12, down 0.14% so far.

USD/JPY daily chart

Technically speaking, the USD/JPY pair has been riding higher since September 22 and peaked at the yearly highs at 112.08. The bulls look exhausted now and lookout for some immediate support around 111.00-111.20. Now, if the price took a further dip, it would end up with a deeper correction. Having said that, the first downside target could be found at Tuesday’s low of 110.93.

The Moving Average Convergence Divergence (MACD) indicator trades in the overbought zone . Any downtick in the MACD could put the 110.70 horizontal support  zone back into action. Next, the USD/JPY bears would attempt to retest the low made on September 24 at 110.25 as the Relative Strength Index (RSI) trades near 65.

USD/JPY monthly chart

Alternatively, the formation of a doji candlestick suggests indecisiveness among traders. If the price ticks above the 111.50 mark then the possibility of meeting yesterday's high at 112.08 couldn’t be negated. Furthermore, USD/JPY bulls would march to December, 2018high at 113.78.

USD/JPY additional levels

USD/JPY

Overview
Today last price111.24
Today Daily Change-0.05
Today Daily Change %-0.04
Today daily open111.29
 
Trends
Daily SMA20110.18
Daily SMA50110
Daily SMA100109.98
Daily SMA200108.42
 
Levels
Previous Daily High112.08
Previous Daily Low111.24
Previous Weekly High110.79
Previous Weekly Low109.12
Previous Monthly High112.08
Previous Monthly Low109.11
Daily Fibonacci 38.2%111.56
Daily Fibonacci 61.8%111.76
Daily Pivot Point S1110.99
Daily Pivot Point S2110.7
Daily Pivot Point S3110.15
Daily Pivot Point R1111.83
Daily Pivot Point R2112.38
Daily Pivot Point R3112.67

Author

Rekha Chauhan

Rekha Chauhan

Independent Analyst

Rekha Chauhan has been working as a content writer and research analyst in the forex and equity market domain for over two years.

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