Economic Calendar
On Friday, the US Core PCE Price Index is scheduled to be published at 12:30 GMT. This inflation measure is watched by the US Federal Reserve when setting their policy.
Hourly Chart
A continuation of the ongoing decline is expected to look for support in the 145.19 level where the weekly S1 simple pivot point was located at and the 145.00 mark. Further below, note that round levels, before the pair reaches the weekly S2 simple pivot point at 142.81.
Meanwhile, a recovery of the US Dollar against the Japanese Yen could encounter resistance in the descending trend line and the 50-hour simple moving average near 146.50/147.00. Higher above, note the 100 and 200-hour simple moving averages and the weekly simple pivot point at 148.56.
USD/JPY daily chart's review
On the daily candle chart, the patterns have been broken. However, the September high level zone appears to be acting as support.Daily chart
On Wednesday, on the Swiss Foreign Exchange, traders were 75% 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 66% to sell the USD against the JPY.
On Thursday, the sentiment was 72% short and orders were 51% to sell.