๐ถ Unemployment in the Eurozone is falling - the latest reading on 3 November showed a drop to 6.6% compared to last reading of 6.7%.
๐ด In Japan, on the other hand, unemployment rose from 2.5% to 2.6%.
๐ถ A week ago, on 17 November to be precise, the inflation reading, which was 10.7% on 31 October. The market is betting on a slowdown in inflation in the coming months.
๐ด In the case of Japan, inflation is gaining momentum even though we have maintained a 3% growth the market is betting that during the next data due on 17 November we could break this barrier and rise to levels of 3.2%.
๐ถ Eurozone interest rates were raised by 75 basis points at the last council meeting on 27 October to 2%.
๐ด In Japan, of course, no change, the council kept rates at -0.1% at its last meeting, but with inflation gaining momentum, further moves remain uncertain. For now, the market is pricing in an unchanged rate at the next decision on 22 November.
๐ถ๐ด Now that we know the fundamental environment, let's turn to the chart.
๐ถ๐ดToday brought nothing new. We attacked the 145.400 level again and there was an unsuccessful attempt to go down to yesterday's lows.
๐ถ๐ดAll due to low volatility on the Japanese. And uncertainty as to which way the Euro should go.
๐ถ๐ด Looking more broadly at the market and seeing that the Japanese on most pairs is preparing for a massive appreciation and the Euro on most pairs is waiting for the right moment to make a correction of uptrend.
๐ถ๐ดThese 2 separate events combined in a single chart could produce the massive price waterfall I wrote about in the previous post.
๐ถ๐ดOn the chart I determined a few things using technical analysis:
๐ถ๐ดFirstly I determined the upward channel we are currently in.
๐ถ๐ดThen I measured the entire downward wave using the fibo. We can see a triple attack on the 0.618 level which we failed to break out of.
๐ถ๐ดNext I measured the current upward impulse to find potential support zones.
๐ถ๐ดThen I measured the largest correction of this upward impulse in order to determine the 1:1 level of this correction.
๐ถ๐ดBy measuring the current uptrend impulse and the 1:1 correction, I found an interesting cluster of levels at 0.618 and 1:1 near 143.600
๐ถ๐ดIn the vicinity of the 0.618 level I determined a strong resistance zone. Due to the fact that the price repeatedly tried to break out of this level unsuccessfully
๐ถ๐ดThe scenario I am playing out is the eur/jpy pair descending to support levels as a result of the Bank of Japan intervening to strengthen the Japanese Yen.
๐ถ๐ด*Please do not suggest the path I have drawn with lines this is only a hypothetical scenario for further increases.
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