EUR analysisToday we are considering the possibility of buying EUR, but against JPY.
Here we are in a definite upward trend of the larger periods and the opportunity to enter at the moment is from H1.
In the last few days we have seen a corrective movement that has been broken.
This allows the price to continue to 130.23.
In order to have the strength to continue this movement, the price must not go below the bottom.
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Week ahead - Interest Rates, CPI's With the new strain of the Coronavirus causing concern across the world, many countries that continue to battle the Coronavirus hope that the vaccine gives them a head start before the strain does any more damage. This week will also see a new President take office, Democrat Joe Biden, on the 20th January US Local time. Here is your week ahead.
All dates are in NZDT.
Monday, 18th January – China's Retail Sales and GDP
It seems like China was on their home run. Cases were initially squashed due to their strict lockdown earlier in 2020. The vaccine's advancement last year was the final factor in cementing China's success against the virus. However, a sharp outbreak in Nangong and Shijiazhuang shows the world that no matter how well your initial response is, only continuous and strict restrictions can keep the Coronavirus out of the community. Five days ago, a plot of land in Nangong, Hebei, laid flat. Now, it has become a 1500 room hospital for Covid-19 patients. This may be an overreaction by the Chinese government – however, they may just be preparing for the worst. This does give a sign of what the future may hold for countries like the United Kingdom and the United States, where cases are still at record highs. With that said, GDP and Retail Sales are predicted to increase on the back of a boost in the manufacturing sector alongside consumer spending the income they saved during the past lockdown. GDP is expected to rise to 6.1% in Q4, up from 4.9% in the previous quarter. Furthermore, retail sales are predicted to grow. 5.5% in the month of December, ahead of Chinese Near Year.
Tuesday, 19th January – Germany's CPI figures
The Coronavirus situation in many countries highlights the importance of implementing a strict lockdown and following it through. The benefits of a lockdown only work if community transmission is eliminated. However, many countries apart from a small handful tried to balance economic damage alongside the Coronavirus spread, which meant deescalating Coronavirus restrictions too early, rendering the lockdown useless. Germany is one of the nations that deescalated too quickly, causing massive spikes in their Coronavirus figures. Their total cases now stand at 2.04 Million, with German Chancellor Angela Merkel urgently trying to rush in more stringent restrictions to dampen the virus's spread. However, the recent spike is unlikely to affect analysts' expectation of Germany's CPI,s expected to print at -0.7% for the month of December, the same as a month before.
Wednesday, 20th January – United Kingdom's CPI Figures
With just under 3.6 Million initial doses having been handed out to the UK public, the United Kingdom's dire situation looks like it's starting to make a turnaround. The daily Coronavirus rate has slowly decreased in the past couple of days - however, Britons do not seem to be adhering to lockdown and social distancing rules. The third lockdown in the past 12 months, UK citizens have been seen gathering around beaches with no mask on. The UK government is banking on the vaccine to help control the virus's spread, as hospital beds continue to be filled with Coronavirus patients. The CPI is expected to rise by 0.5%, up from 0.3% a month before.
Wednesday 20th January – Bank of Canada's Interest Rate Decision
Canada seems to be avoiding the limelight – however, their Coronavirus cases are continuing to skyrocket after a semi-successful, non-strict lockdown. However, like all countries that did not eliminate community transmission, their cases soared as the latter part of 2020 approached. Coronavirus cases in Canada surpassed 700,000 yesterday, which may well play into their interest rate decision this week ahead. With the second wave all but destroying any optimism in Canada's economic recovery, analysts predict a rate cut of less than 0.25%, currently at 0.25%. Andrew Kelvin, Chief Canada Strategist at TD Securities, stated that "The fact that the Bank of Canada has kept the door open to ( a rate cut) in the recent month hasn't gone unnoticed by markets."
Thursday, 21st and Friday 22nd January – Australia's Employment Change and Retail Sales Month over Month
The news many Australian citizens wanted to hear – "There are no remaining hotspot definitions," Federal Health Minister Greg Hunt stated at a press conference, with only one community transmission in the past couple of days. However, he warned that their not out of the woods yet, stating that "invevitably, there will be days of new cases. There will be days where there may be a requirement for Commonwealth hotspot definition to be reintroduced. But they'll be done on a the basis of that, and cases". This may indicate that Australia is finally able to start its economic recovery – alongside the implementation of the Trans-Atlantic bubble between Australia and New Zealand. Employment Change is expected to decrease from +90,000 in November to +50,000 in December.
Thursday, 21st January – Bank of Japan's Interest Rate Decision
Similar to Canada, Japan did not implement a proper lockdown. Instead, they opted for an increase in social distancing measures alongside confidence in their citizens to continue to wear face masks. Just like Canada, initial results were promising. However, as the year passed, it was evident that community transmission is inevitable if it was not thoroughly squashed out. Currently, Japan sits on 325,000 Coronavirus cases, with daily cases reaching an all-time high of 8,000 just a couple of days ago. With negative rates in Japan, monetary policy moves to the downside are rare as not to dig a hole the Bank of Japan can not come out of. Chances are, the BoJ will opt for other tools for yield control, such as asset purchases. However, analysts at Bloomberg Economics forecast the BoJ to keep rates as is not only this week ahead but for the whole year.
Busy week ahead. Trade safe, and most importantly, stay safe.
ridethepig | JPY Market Commentary 18.12.2020📌 @ridethepig G10 FX Market Commentary 18.12.2020
What was the point in BOJ meeting overnight? Finally extensions of the handouts coming from the Japanese base, and remarkably the 103.0x was rescued via lack of conviction from macro players to chase it lower. Buyers now can play the break, undoing their opponents work and imagine the test of 105 as being important for the yearly close flows.
This iteration of dollar strength will be most visible in GBPUSD and USDJPY - choppy conditions seem appropriate. Here we are tracking this rather technical move. I am looking firstly for a move towards 105 resistance, followed by a zag to fade back towards 103.5x which is a 300 tick round trip.
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EUR/JPY taking the early lead in todays trading session...Before:
Amid a lacklustre open to the trade session EUR/JPY has taken an early lead in development especially within the daily uptrend. As we are seeing a nice break-out continuation, we should see the final leg to the upside relatively soon.
Latest news from this morning:
BoJ Governor Kuroda says they are closely watching FX moves but will not comment on details; no need to think the JPY's rise is having serious effects on the economy.
EU Chief Brexit Negotiator Barnier said there is good progress but the last stumbling blocks remain and that in this final stretch of talks, transparency and unity are important as ever. (Newswires)
EU Chief Brexit Negotiator Barnier reportedly said that a Brexit deal is possible by Friday according to AFP citing sources, while other reports stated that EU Chief Brexit Negotiator Barnier is understood to have told the EU Parliament that a Brexit deal is possible by the weekend but difficult, according to WSJ's Norman. (AFP/WSJ)
EURJPY: Yen on the crossroads, EUR at support, longs in playHello,
the yen weakens with rising yields,
maintained "vaccine" sentiment
EURUSD is technically supported around 1.1760 / 40
USDJPY technically looks good
Looking for so called "double kick"
Buying at/around 123.85 and 123.25
Stop below 122.75
Target 1 126
Target 2 128
Good luck
USDJPY Longs in play with US yields supportHi,
a firm return from below 103.50 thanks to rising yiekds is not complete in our opinion
The combination of 'fast money' and more short squeeze can push price higher towards 107+
Risk factor: yields / market sentiment
Looking to buy on dips towards 105 and 104.4
Stop below 103.60
Target 107.20 / 30
OR
Buy on the break of 105.60 (on the retest)
Stop under 105.20
Target 107.20 / 30
Good Luck
ridethepig | JPY beyond the elections🔸 USDJPY - into the elections
Sellers have the move and already played the exchange towards 100 on the initial covid chapter I. They are aiming for the ideal Yearly closing position (the frontal attack against any laggards). I managed to carry out the deeply laid plan (a serious contender for chart of the year) at the beginning and by not being as familiar as I was with the well-known rules on Tradingview. Moreover, I know no other ending in which this precise striving of inflation is more clearly illustrated than in the diagram that follows:
Inflation expectations proceed as follows: as dismal Covid data floods the wires => stimulus then becomes a big part of that story
📍 There is no amount of printing that can counter deflation.
As globalisation contracts, it creates a deflationary tsunami on the underlying capital formation. We then have to factor in bottlenecks on the supply side from lockdowns, agricultural shortages and etc which create inflationary pressures.
The key idea is that they can simply clear the way for the Suganomics/Abenomics with a different pair of Calvin Kleins and prevent the breakdown of 100 is truly the only way to save Japan, because the MT and LT outlooks look awful there.
In the more immediate term, the second covid chapter and election protection may keep JPY in demand and lower-time frame rallies will still attract selling interest. Here tracking 105.8x as resistance for another attempt of 104.1x and 100.0x before the king starts its journey. How keenly the speculators are at outguessing the demise of Japan.
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RidetheMacro| USDJPY Outlook 2020.09.19📌the USD/JPY currency pair reached one and a half month lows this week at the middle of the 104th figure. In this price area, the southern momentum has faded and now traders are at crossroads: on the one hand – the weakening greenback which again began to lose its positions and on the other hand – the lack of weighty arguments for continuing the downward movement. The results of the September meeting of the Bank of Japan and the data published today on the growth of Japanese inflation did not provide any clarity as the USD/JPY pair continues to trade against the background of a contradictory fundamental picture.📈
🏦 the BoJ said in its Sept. 17 monetary-policy statement. “The pace of improvement is expected to be only moderate while the impact of COVID-19 🦠 remains worldwide.”
The Japanese economy shrank 7.9% on quarter in Q2 2020, compared with the preliminary reading of a 7.8% decline and market consensus of an 8.1% drop, and after a 0.6% fall in Q1. This was the third straight quarter of contraction and the steepest on record, amid the severe impact of the COVID-19 crisis. Private consumption tumbled, falling for the third straight quarter (-7.9% vs -0.7% in Q1)
📍 Any material shift in this regard may be exacerbated by a contraction in global growth, with capital flight into the dollar
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ridethepig | Nikkei Market Commentary 2020.09.19📌 The Nikkei would have freed some space to the downside with a technical break last week, but given that we have not pierced the support line and buyers are still well-placed we must be wary of a retest in the highs of the multi year top at 24,000 - the same level we have been tracking since 2018!!
The more interesting notion comes from the Global Equity board with breaks being led by NY and following through with Europe on the quadruple witching flows.
A simple move here would be playing the breakdown for a quick test of the 200 day MA which is +/- 22,000 and on the other perhaps opening up the panic leg towards the lows at 20,300 if the rest of the flows play along. Any moves to the topside lack conviction and the RSI destroys all winning chances for buyers as we approach the highs.
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ridethepig | USDJPY Market Commentary 2020.09.12📍 JPY
Buyers are threatening to breakout. After 107 comes 110 and then 112.x. But sellers have other trump cards, for example covid.
My impression is as follows: as the dollar firms and finds a temporary floor therefore can be considered a bounce into the elections which can be somewhat double-edged. If the preconditions are met, namely if we get a continuation of Abenomics with the leadership elections, and effective parries into the Yen are restrained, then beginning the advance towards 150 may be justified.
But we should consider the development here to be EARLY/OPENING game. In light of this, we should take longs on a leash and if the market starts paying we can add more size. The technical breakout would lead to buyers occupying the flows. Equities may felt even more the heat if we see a paralysing effect via temporary USD inflows.
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Where USDJPY will go?One of the pairs that have been without a clear direction for the longest time is USDJPY. In the chart we see that for the second month we have lower peaks and higher bottoms. This is one of the most famous and reliable figures - a triangle.
Such triangles develop at almost all periods. From monthly to 30m.
However, if we open the weekly and monthly chart , then there we can see that this is part of a larger triangle.
Why do we pay attention to these triangles now?
This week will be key! We are expecting news on Wednesday about the Fed's interest rate decision. A few hours later, there is a decision by BoJ.
We are also entering a pre-election battle in the USA and the season of JPY movements.
Where USDJPY will go will probably become clear this week!
AUD/JPY Weekly Candlesticks & Ichimoku ChartChinese economy recovering strongly should benefit the AUD in the longer run, and once Abe’s successor is elected, BoJ’s ultra-easy monetary policy will likely be reaffirmed — paving the way for eventual JPY weakness.
AUDJPY has closed above the weekly Ichimoku cloud and broken above resistance at 0.7680–0.7700 convincingly. Buy on dips for a test above 0.8000 seems the right way to go…
AUDJPY Intraday: AU data + ST chart means sell ralliesHi
Australian data (weak GDP, RBA below hawkish expectations and Retail sales overnight) plus short term chart are against the bulls.
If we add negative sentiment during the New York session (still 2 hours and anything can happen there), we do have good ground for short positions;
Selling rallies towards 77.55 / 75
Stop above 77.95
Target 76.15
Good luck
ridethepig | NZDJPY Market Commentary 2020.08.15So much for the round of chart updates...@ridethepig has been taking some time off this summer to prepare for a very busy September onwards.
📌 NZDJPY retrace swing is running out steam at the 69.9x / 70.0x highs. While risk remains in the background despite the political fairy-dust, the urge to park capital in the Yen has been maintained but for how much longer?
A dovish RBNZ has provided us with a freeing move to the 59.5x lows with a clear direction from foreign asset purchases and -ve rates coming.
=> Firstly think of the curious circumstances we are looking at when analysing the global macro outlook. The blockade set via inflation and Yields usually turns out to be a severe recession in all respects:
=> Secondly the momentum is building and confirming the likely sustainability of the NZD outflows and JPY inflows as a double whammy. Positive momentum is coughing after six weeks of chop, this all embracing struggle, is only a means to an end.
Remember the importance to strive for mobility, when your central bank confirms its lust to expand the overdraft and buy anything that moves overseas is always sending the currency in one direction. Also for those particularly interested in the region and given the divergence with positive Aussie macro data overnight, it’s no surprise to see AUDNZD continue the grind higher.
Sooner or later the NZD capitulation will show itself in NZDJPY and the leg towards 59.5x has appeared. Invalidation in the board will come via a sustained breach above 73.3x.
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GBPJPY shorts in play, 132,50 and 130 as medium term targetsHi,
yesterday evening news hit the market:
UK press reports the UK is close to abandoning a post-Brexit trade deal with EU
and thats one of the helping hand for sellers...
Selling between 135,80/136,40
Stop above 136,50
Targets:
1. Intraday 134,30/20
2. 132,5
3. 130
Good Luck !
ridethepig | JPY Long-Term Macro Map The elements of Macro strategy
📍 On the JPY side...
It is well known the vulnerability of Japanese corporates in this environment, they are particularly exposed because of the demographics and sector exposures. Restaurants, bars, entertainment etc all are looking very feeble, and with credibility seems to be fading on the monetary and fiscal side too since the latest rounds of stimulus there is room for a massive leg lower in JPY. For those following the conversations on Japanese fiscal bazooka, the sizes are insane... Abe just put through another 6% of GDP and raised the overdraft to +/- 15% of GDP. A comatose recovery is underway, even if the fiscal execution is flawless this will take years to recovery.
📍 On the USD side...
Hedging will become a lot lot cheaper with Fed zero rates meaning that the demand for USD will increase as it remains a more attractive hedging instrument than JPY. So we have the following picture: the king stuck in retreat via Covid forcing the front end of the yield curve to stay anchored to rates, while the belly and long end are starting to dislocate and tick higher. This is screaming of longer lasting pain to come . Local politics will provide some ebb and flow although Trump looks a done deal. The only caveat is if Hillary throws her hat in the ring, low odds as per today but of course this will be one to keep an eye on and Biden dependent.
📍 For the technical flows...
We are tracking an ABC sequence with the 'C' leg in play after this weekly close. The 151 remains the main target in the sequence with a time horizon of Q4 21 / Q1 22. The monthly chart is a little out of scope for retail trading, instead it will serve as a compass to help our Weekly, Daily and H4 maps.
A round of Macro Maps will be uploaded over the weekend. As usual jump in with charts, views, questions or etc and thanks for keeping the support rolling with likes, comments and etc!