| Positions | Today | Yesterday | % Change | |
| Longs | 43% | 49% | -13.95% | |
| Shorts | 57% | 51% | 10.53% | |
| Indicator | 4H | 1D | 1W | |
| MACD (12; 26; 9) | Buy | Buy | Sell | |
| RSI (14) | Neutral | Neutral | Neutral | |
| Stochastic (5; 3; 3) | Neutral | Sell | Sell | |
| Alligator (13; 8; 5) | Neutral | Buy | Sell | |
| SAR (0.02; 0.2) | Sell | Buy | Buy | |
| Aggregate | ⇒ | ⇗ | ⇘ | |
An increasing hawkish rhetoric between the United States and North Korea led to appreciation of the Yen by 63 basis points just in three hours. As a result, the pair broke through the 100-hour SMA as well as the weekly PP and ended up near the 200-hour SMA.
Accordingly, today the currency rate might try using this downside momentum to slip to the area between the 111.38 and 111.26 levels. On the other hand, a number of factors indicate on presence of a new junior descending channel.
If this assumption is true, then the rate should not fall below the 111.40 mark. In contrast, the buck might use the above 200-hour SMA as a springboard to try to return at least to the weekly PP at 111.90.