Monday, August 24, 2009

Today on USDJPY – Daily and H4 charts support Long trades.

On the Daily chart above, we could see that price couldn’t sustain its steep downward move as it advanced toward the lower edge of the narrow channel; hence it reversed sharply to break above the upper edge of the channel – breaking above previous day’s highs in the process. Also, if we take a closer look at the Daily chart – precisely the previous two trading days’ candles (last week Thursday and Friday) – we would observe that the whole of Thursday’s price action occurred within Friday’s candle (price range), which resulted in an “engulfing-candle” formation. An engulfing candle at the end of a steep downward move such as this gives us a good probability that price is set to reverse its direction. Furthermore, Price-break above the engulfing-candle earlier today buttressed the possibility of further movement of price downward.

On the H4 chart above, price broke the most recent swing high @ 94.54 (which we’ve highlighted using the blue broken line) upward. That automatically shifted our bias in favor of an upward price move. The green horizontal line @ 93.41 highlights the most recent swing low, and as long as price stays above it – in the absence of any new and higher swing low – our bullish or upward bias remains intact.

However, we still need our Hourly charts – using Fibonacci retracement levels and important support levels – to seek promising areas to take our Long positions. Price pattern on the hourly must also be forming higher highs and higher lows. Please note that our aim is to buy a dip in today’s up-trend.

Also, PATIENCE is the key here: we need to patiently wait for the hourly retracement. It might happen, and it might not.

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