Unless the BoJ is willing to back up its interventions with a hike in interest rates or commit to large-scale USDJOY selling, the best we can say at this stage is that it has, at least for now, restored a two0way risk in what had become a one-way market
What hasn’t changed is that 155 remains pivotal and only firmly below it would suggest the BoJ has won this battle. If not, then it is just a shot across the market’s bow.
Rates are bid on Aud but slightly mixed likely due to pending inflation data in the Asian session. Likely it settles into a small range ahead of the data.
UsdJpy is seeing inflows in forward rates so I can see 158 possibly being traded again in coming days but clearly my preference is the sell side of bid waves. For cross currency fans, I am long Usd vs Peso and Singapore Dollar lightly from just below current market (UsdMxn 17.05) (UsdSgd 3582).
Covered calls are bid for stocks as well as some other facets, but some internals are not solid so it appears to me that the bid in stocks in moderately on the apprehensive side but bid so far. Dxy withstood the overnight selling but has to clear 106.05 and hold to accelerate in my view, otherwise the 105 area might be seen. I’m looking to sell GbpUsd around 2600  but am biased long overall until the tune changes. Staying on the bid in AudUsd and crosses on pullbacks and believe it might temporarily stall around 6600 in both spot and futures.
April 29, 2024 at 7:26 am
wfakhoury Amman
USDJPY
155.48 ,156.05 ,156.65 all confirmed and will be reached one by one
now 155.20
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155.48 ,15605 and 156.65 all reached.
100% guaranteed
RIYADH, April 29 (Reuters) – U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken on Monday urged Hamas to swiftly accept an Israeli proposal for a truce in the Gaza war and the release of Israeli hostages held by the Palestinian militant group.
Hamas negotiators were expected to meet Qatari and Egyptian mediators in Cairo on Monday to deliver a response to the phased truce proposal which Israel presented at the weekend.
“Hamas has before it a proposal that is extraordinarily, extraordinarily generous on the part of Israel,” Blinken said at a meeting of the World Economic Forum in the Saudi capital Riyadh..truncated
DLRx 105.70 / 10-YR 4.642%
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I gage that player collective is expecting and therefore pricing in what is generally termed “jerome’s FED’s hawkish pivot” on wednesday. odds calcs suggest around 25bps by december.
10-yr… 2yr … probably on “watch” radar.
europe, incidentaly, is on holiday on Wednesday (the so what: likely thin participation)
Bottom Line
I am biased but this time around I am not enthusiastic about much upside potential for the DLR.
Maybe friday’s incoming US jobs data will stirr the juices pot some
THIS IS ONE OF MY FAVORITE TIPS AND WORTH REPEATING AS IT IS A TIMELY ONE NOW THAT THE BOJ HAS FINALLY INTERVENED IN USDJPY.
‘ The forex market is on a constant search for the path of least resistance, whether it be on the up or downside for a currency. A trend starts like the gently flowing stream, picks up momentum as with the cascading water, and then reaches a climax when it hits the waterfall.
April 29, 2024 at 7:26 am
wfakhoury Amman
USDJPY
155.48 ,156.05 ,156.65 all confirmed and will be reached one by one
now 155.20
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155.48 and 156.05 Reached
100% guaranteed
While intervention has been in USDJPY, crosses have felt the impact as well. With that said, if you want to be short JPY there is less chance of intervention in crosses than in USDJPY.
EURJPY retreat from 171.55 shows key supports still untouched
165.34
163.36 (Trendline)
163.01
While the damage is not yet fatal the intervention has restored a two-way risk to a one-way market. .