USD/JPY: Trend Down?

Published 04/12/2017, 06:18

USD/JPY

USD/JPY Chart

After about the first week of November, I began to notice something...a pattern forming...that I vocalised in the various TV broadcasts I'd made during November and which I have no doubt some of you have seen. In essence it was this, the whole action September-to-date is a Large Bearish H+S Top? Increasingly it seems to be forming that Pattern as though we have a Split Head that could also be seen as a Double Top, I'm more inclined to view it as a Large Bearish H+S Top and we are possibly forming the second Shoulder at this time...you can see this on the Daily Chart above.

The Neckline is about 110.69 now but it means little till we breach it and see how far the first wave goes lower before recovery takes us. This past week we've had a Pipe Bottom formed on the recent 50% Fib at 110.91 which punched us back up over the Long MA (currently 111.66) and we've then seen the extension and seemingly failure on this past Friday with an indecisive Outside Day offering no further comfort to those Bullish but equally not showing direction for those Bearish...we're after all still above the Long MA. The next few days will be very interesting to the development of this H+S Pattern. If we close consecutively over 113.50 then it would basically be dead as an idea. Yet the lack of backing and filling by the current market for the second Shoulder is not helpful to the Bears. An interesting few days...

Support is currently at 111.96, 111.75, 111.66 (dynamic), 111.41, 111.17, 110.91, 110.69 (dynamic), 110.06, 109.89, 109.54 and 109.09 (dynamic).

Resistance is currently at 112.70, 112.87, 112.98, 113.91, 114.06, 114.32 and 114.50.

Bullet point above goes into mildly Bearish in possible anticipation.

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