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FxWirePro Call Review: Yen long-term outlook revised from bullish to neutral; short-term bearish target reached

We at FxWirePro can boast success over the past years with regard to the yen. Below are the details of our short-term outlook and long-term outlook,

Short-term outlook:

In our April call review, https://www.econotimes.com/FxWirePro-Call-Review-With-risk-aversion-fading-Bears-might-push-yen-to-111-per-dollar-in-short-term-1257697 based on our calculations we suggested that with risk aversion fading, that the USD/JPY pair is likely to retrace further from its current rate of 107 and reach as low as 111 area.

Long-term outlook:

We have been short on USD/JPY for quite some time now. Back in May 2017, in an article named, “FxWirePro: Buy yen at dips targeting 101 per dollar”, available at http://www.econotimes.com/FxWirePro-Buy-yen-at-dips-targeting-101-per-dollar-674020 , we suggested buying yen against the dollar, with a target around 101 per dollar. Here is the recommendation from that article, “We recommend buying the yen at dips against the dollar with a target around 101 per dollar. Proffered buying areas are here at 112 (10 percent of the total intended position), then at 114 (20 percent of the total intended position), then at 115 (60 percent of the total intended position) and finally at 116.5 (10 percent of the total intended position). We would recommend stop loss after entering fully into the trade.”

In a subsequent article, named, “FxWirePro Call Review: Maintain USD/JPY short; stop-loss recommended”, available at http://www.econotimes.com/FxWirePro-Call-Review-Maintain-USD-JPY-short-stop-loss-recommended-729744 , we noted,

“The yen weakened to as low as 114.3 per dollar before strengthening again. As per our guideline, our readers couldn’t have entered the entire desired positions.  We recommended at this point maintaining the entered positions and add fresh positions at breakouts. An addition of fresh short positions is recommended one the pair break below 110. As of now, we would like to recommend a bigger stop loss around 115.5 per dollar.”

Since then, the yen strengthened above 110 per dollar, however, it failed to reach the recommended target. USD/JPY declined to as low as 107.5 per dollar in September 2017, only to bounce back to 114.5 area by November. Nevertheless, we doubled down on our short dollar against yen outlook with another recommendation (short-term this time).

In November, in an article named, “FxWirePro: Buy yen targeting 108.5 per dollar” available at http://www.fxwirepro.com/fxwire/popup/newsPopup?id=777971 we recommended going short in USD/JPY at the then current rate of 112 per dollar with a target around 108.5 per dollar and stop loss at 114.8 per dollar.

The yen also reached some of our interim targets (106.3, & 104.2 (almost)) suggested in follow up articles.

At this point, looking at the current developments, we would like to revise our bullish outlook for the yen to neutral. The yen is currently trading at 111 per dollar.

 

 

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