USD/JPY reaches resistance near 135.50

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Source: Dukascopy Bank SA
At mid-Wednesday the USD/JPY currency pair reached above the 135.00 mark and the upper trend line of the channel up pattern. Almost immediately after the event, the pair approached the combined resistance of the 134.35/134.55 zone and the weekly R1 simple pivot point at 135.40.

In the meantime, the pair was set to be moved by the US FOMC Meeting Minutes release at 18:00 GMT.

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At 18:00 GMT on Wednesday, the US Federal Reserve Meeting Minutes are bound to be published. The details included in the document might be the reason for a USD move.

Hourly Chart
A breaking of the resistance zone could result in the rate approaching the July levels near 136.00/138.00. Meanwhile, note that the weekly R2 simple pivot point at 137.42 might act as resistance.

On the other hand, a decline of the US Dollar against the Japanese yen might encounter support first in the 134.50 level. Further below, note the 50 and 200-hour simple moving averages

USD/JPY daily chart's review

On the daily candle chart, the pair has been trading between the support of the 100-day simple moving average near 132.90 and the 131.25/132.00 zone and the resistance of the 50-day simple moving average near the 135.00 mark.

Daily chart




Traders are short

Before the Meeting Minutes release, on the Swiss Foreign Exchange, traders were 71% 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.

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