During Friday morning hours, the USD/JPY currency pair reversed north from the 103.80 level.
It is likely that the pair could face the resistance provided by the 55-, 100- and 200-hour SMAs, as well the weekly PP in the 104.20 area and reverse south.
Economic Calendar
On Friday, the US will publish monthly employment data. Namely, the Unemployment Rate, Non-Farm Employment Change and the Average Hourly Earnings. The rate has moved from 10.4 to 26.3 pips on the announcement.
Next week is expected to be relatively calm for the USD/JPY pair regards to the economic calendar.
On Thursday, the US CPI data sets and the Unemployment Claims are set to be published at 13:30 GMT.
The week is set to end with the US Producers Price Index, which has caused moves from 6.9 to 48.9 pips. Although, note that without the 48.9 pip release, the range of moves is from 6.9 to 12.2 base points.
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USD/JPY short-term daily review
On Thursday, the USD/JPY currency pair dropped to the 103.80 level. During today's morning, the pair reversed north.It is likely that the exchange rate could face the resistance formed by the 55-, 100– and 200-hour SMAs, as well the weekly PP in the 104.20 area. Thus, a reversal south could occur, and the rate could decline to the weekly S1 at 103.65.
However, if the predetermined resistance does not hold, the currency pair could continue to trade upwards in the nearest future. In this case the pair could target the weekly R1 at 104.72.
Hourly Chart
On the daily candle chart, one can observe that the rate faces the additional resistance of the 55-day simple moving average, which was located near the 104.80 level.
Daily chart
On Friday, on the Swiss Foreign Exchange 64% of volume was in long positions.
On Thursday, the sentiment was 64% long.
Meanwhile, trader set up pending orders in the 100-pip range around the rate were 50% to buy the pair.