USD/JPY looks for support

Source: Dukascopy Bank SA
On Tuesday morning, the USD/JPY currency exchange rate was looking for support in the 137.70/137.90 zone. The rate had been testing the zone since early Monday's trading. Due to that reason, the future forecast scenarios remained unchanged.

Economic Calendar



On Friday, take into account the US Markit Services and Manufacturing Purchasing Managers Index release at 13:45 GMT. The rate might be impacted through the USD value reacting to the publication.

Hourly Chart
A resumption of the USD surge against the Japanese Yen is expected to encounter minor resistance in the 138.50 mark and the 50 and 100-hour simple moving average near 138.30. Higher above, the high levels near 139.40 are set to once again impact the currency pair.

However, an extension of the ongoing decline might look for support in the 137.50 mark, the 200-hour simple moving average near 137.10 and the 137.00 level.

USD/JPY daily chart's review

On the daily candle chart, the rate has resumed its 2022 surge, which appears to have been occurring in a wide channel up pattern.

Daily chart




Traders are shorting

On Monday, on the Swiss Foreign Exchange, traders were 72% short as that amount of open position volume was in short positions.

Meanwhile, trader set up pending orders in the 100-pip range around the rate were 53% to buy the USD against the JPY.

During Tuesday's trading, the positions were 70% short and pending orders were 56% to buy.

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