Price & Time: Important Timing Relationship Beckons USD/JPY

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Talking Points

• Secondary high next week in USD/JPY

• EUR/USD test year’s closing low

• GBP/USD touches a new low for the year

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Foreign Exchange Price & Time at a Glance:

Price & Time Analysis: EUR/USD

Price & Time: Important Timing Relationship Beckons USD/JPY

Charts Created using Marketscope – Prepared by Kristian Kerr

• EUR/USD has come under renewed pressure testing the year’s low close this morning

• Our near-term trend bias is lower in EUR/USD while below 1.2400

• The 15th square root relationship of the year’s high around 1.2235 is the next key downside pivot

• A minor turn window is eyed today

• A close back above 1.2400 would turn us positive on the exchange rate

EUR/USD Strategy: Square.

Instrument	Support 2	Support 1	Spot	Resistance 1	Resistance 2
EUR/USD	*1.2335	1.2280	1.2305	*1.2400	1.2460

Price & Time Analysis: GBP/USD

Price & Time: Important Timing Relationship Beckons USD/JPY

Charts Created using Marketscope – Prepared by Kristian Kerr

• GBP/USD fell to a new low for the year on Wednesday

• Our near-term trned bias is negative while below 1.5790

• A close under 1.5540 is needed to confirm the start of a more important leg lower

• A minor turn window is eyed today

• A close over 1.5790 would turn us posiitve on Cable

GBP/USD Strategy: Like selling into strength while below 1.5790.

Instrument	Support 2	Support 1	Spot	Resistance 1	Resistance 2
GBP/USD	1.5370	*1.5540	1.5650	1.5675	*1.5790

Focus Chart of the Day: USD/JPY

Price & Time: Important Timing Relationship Beckons USD/JPY

A confluence of long-term cyclical relationships early next week in USD/JPY suggests this period will be significant for the exchange rate in a timing sense. With USD/JPY having reversed from the other turn window we highlighted at the start of the month we had assumed that spot would just selloff in between and form a low next week then turn back up. This could still play out, but the reversal over the past couple of days introduces the possibility that we see a secondary high next week and USD/JPY comes under pressure thereafter. Resistance levels to monitor for a potential reaction are 119.50, 120.70 and of course the year-to-date high near 121.85. New highs anytime after Christmas would be a very bullish development. The next big turn window after next week is the beginning of January.

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--- Written by Kristian Kerr, Senior Currency Strategist for DailyFX.com

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