JPY stock basket Reacts To US Dollar RallyThe past week has had plenty of developments for many financial instruments across all markets. COINBASE:BTCUSD has slid to the downside, Major US Indices have also see a decline. JPY 225, the major stock index in Japan has reacted quite aggressively to the movement of the US Dollar.
The JPY 225 index is one of the indices we have identified to be strongly inversely correlated to the dollar index. As can be seen in the chart (The US Dollar index chart is the grey line chart). The reason for this correlation is quite lengthy. But it largely has to do with the US being the biggest consumer of Japanese manufactured products.
That being said, we've seen the US Dollar index Break lengthy bearish trends this past week. And Subsequently, The JPY 225 has done the exact opposite. If we ought to trade the JPY 225, We would be looking for short positions. And as can be observed in the charts, those who trade chart patterns would identify Head and shoulder on the JPY 225- Signaling the beginning of a potentially strong bearish trend. The Market has also broken a bullish trendline channel which confirms a potential long-term reversal.
In order to track the movements of major instruments we will look at how the dollar index moves in the coming week. Since there are plenty of US news this coming week, We will see how the overall market responds to those and adjust accrdingly.
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