The most active trading sessions for the USD/JPY take place in Tokyo, London and New York. Day traders look mostly to the London and New York sessions but those trading wishing to trade on the Asian markets can do so between 2400 GMT - 0900 GMT.
USD/JPY has traditionally been the most politically sensitive currency pair, with successive U.S. governments using the exchange rate as a lever in trade negotiations with Japan. For day-to-day trading, the most significant feature of USD/JPY is the heavy influence exerted by Japanese institutional investors and asset managers.
The USD/JPY has recently dipped below 101.00. Read the Daily Forex USD to Japanese Yen forecast and get access to the most up-to-date statistics, analyses and economic events regarding the USD/JPY.
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The USD/JPY gapped higher on Monday to kick off the trading week to slam into the 50-Day EMA.
At the end of the week's trading, the price of the USD/JPY currency pair jumped to the resistance level of 131.18 after it reached the support level of 128.08 in the same week
If a trader has been able to survive the last few days of pursuing the USD/JPY, they have likely been on the correct side of the move higher, or have used adequate risk management.
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The US Federal Reserve slowed its efforts to rein in inflation, saying more US interest rate hikes were on the cards as officials debated when to end the most tightening of credit in four decades.
The USD/JPY is trading slightly below the 128.600 level as of this writing.
While attempting to recover, the price of the currency pair USD/JPY stabilized around the resistance level of 130.55.
For the second week in a row, the price of the USD/JPY currency pair stabilizes in a limited path trying to get out of the downward channel.
The USD/JPY currency pair has rallied a bit during the trading session again on Monday, as we continue to form a basing pattern.
The US dollar has been back and forth during the course of the trading session on Friday as we continue to see a lot of noise against the Japanese yen.
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The USD/JPY has gone back and forth during the trading session on Thursday as we continue to hang around the ¥130 level.
Despite the weakness of the Japanese yen against the rest of the other major currencies, the pair of the US dollar against the Japanese yen USD/JPY was exposed to selling operations for two days in a row.
The USD/JPY has produced a rather wide test of its short-term range this week as speculators await important U.S GDP statistics coming later today and inflation data tomorrow.
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The USD/JPY initially tried to rally during the trading session on Tuesday but gave back rather quickly as we now have seen the 50-Day EMA break down below the 200-Day EMA.
With the start of this week's trading, the Japanese yen declined in general against the rest of the other major currencies.