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USD/JPY confined to a narrow range below 110

USD/JPY dropped to lower ground following the dovish Fed decision but managed to recover. What levels should we watch in the wake of the new week?

The  Technical Confluences Indicator  shows that dollar/yen has significant support at  109.41  where we see a dense cluster of lines including the Simple Moving Average 50-4h, the SMA 200-1h, the Fibonacci 23.6% one-day, the SMA 10-one-day, the Bollinger Band 1h-Middle, and the SMA 200-4h.

The next support line is close by at  109.25  we note another minefield of lines including the Fibonacci 38.2% one-day, the Fibonacci 61.8% one-week, the SMA 10-4h, and the SMA 5-one-day.

Resistance is quite significant as well. The round number of  110  is also last month’s high and where the Pivot Point one-week Resistance 1 hits the chart.

If USD/JPY overcomes the hurdle, the next target is  110.50  where we see the convergence of the Fibonacci 161.8% one-week and the Pivot Point one-week Resistance 2.

Here is how it looks on the tool:

USDJPY February 4 2019 technical confluence

Confluence Detector

The Confluence Detector finds  exciting opportunities using Technical Confluences.  The TC is a tool to locate and point out those price levels where there is a  congestion of indicators,  moving averages,  Fibonacci levels, Pivot Points, etc. Knowing where these congestion points are located is very useful for the trader, and can be used as a basis for different strategies.

This tool assigns a certain amount of “weight” to each indicator, and this “weight” can influence  adjacents  price levels. These weightings mean that one  price level without any indicator  or moving average but under the influence of two “strongly weighted” levels accumulate more resistance than their neighbors. In these cases, the tool signals resistance in apparently empty areas.

Yohay Elam

Yohay Elam

Yohay Elam: Founder, Writer and Editor I have been into forex trading for over 5 years, and I share the experience that I have and the knowledge that I've accumulated. After taking a short course about forex. Like many forex traders, I've earned a significant share of my knowledge the hard way. Macroeconomics, the impact of news on the ever-moving currency markets and trading psychology have always fascinated me. Before founding Forex Crunch, I've worked as a programmer in various hi-tech companies. I have a B. Sc. in Computer Science from Ben Gurion University. Given this background, forex software has a relatively bigger share in the posts.