Selling USD/JPY at the 100 SMA As Sentiment Continues to Remain Negative

USD/JPY retraced higher in the European session, which seems complete now, so we decided to go short on this pair

The retrace is complete on the H1 chart

[[USD/JPY]] has been quite bearish since the beginning of May as the trade war escalated again. During  this time, we have been dovish on this pair and have opened many sell signals. The vast majority of our trades here have been successful part pretty negative from last week when USD/JPY turned bullish as it was retracing higher.

This week, we kept selling as the sentiment in financial markets continues to remain pretty negative on escalating trade war as well as increasing political tensions. Today we heard about the explosion of Iranian Oil tankers in the Gulf, while China repeated that they will fight the tariffs fight until the end. So, the situation should remain bearish for USD/JPY as the market keeps leaning on safe havens.

USD/JPY dived around 50 pips lower during the night on the Iranian Oil tankers explosion. But it retraced higher during the European session, although the climb stopped in the US session. The price ran into the 100 SMA (red) which provided resistance yesterday and it seems like USD/JPY is finding resistance at this moving average again. So, we decided to take our chances and open another sell signal here, hoping that the sentiment doesn’t turn really positive soon.

 

 

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Skerdian Meta
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Skerdian Meta Lead Analyst. Skerdian is a professional Forex trader and a market analyst. He has been actively engaged in market analysis for the past 11 years. Before becoming our head analyst, Skerdian served as a trader and market analyst in Saxo Bank's local branch, Aksioner. Skerdian specialized in experimenting with developing models and hands-on trading. Skerdian has a masters degree in finance and investment.

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