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USD/JPY: Market optimism has room to lift the pair

The USD/JPY enjoyed a recovery after the risk-off sentiment faded away. Can it continue its upward trajectory? Not so fast?

The  Technical Confluences Indicator  shows that that the pair initially needs to conquer the battle over  110.22  which is a dense cluster of technical levels including the Simple Moving Average 200-15m, the SMA 200-1h, the Fibonacci 61.8% one-day, the SMA 50-4h, the SMA 10-one-day, and the Bolinger Band one-hour Upper-Stdv. 2.2.

The next challenge is very close, at  110.35, which is the convergence of the Fibonacci 38.2% one-week, the SMA 100-1h, and the Bolinger Band one-hour-Middle.

Further above, the  110.96  level is the confluence of the one-week high, the Bolinger Band one-day, and the Bolinger Band one-hour Upper.

On the downside, faces various support lines with a concentration of levels  109.82: the Bolinger Band one-day-Middle, the Fibonacci 23.6% one-day, and the Bolinger Band one-hour-Lower.

Further down, the  109.42  features a strong line: the Fibonacci 38.2% one-month, accompanied by several others.

This is how it looks on the tool:

USD JPY technical confluence levels June 20 2018

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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.