GBPJPY is still within the triangle I’ve been blogging about lately, somewhere in the middle so this is no place to take a position for most traders. I did however just get off another short at 148.71. It’s a small position because I’m not entirely comfortable with this. However, my reasons for shorting again are as follows:
1)The pair is in an overall downtrend
2)Price objective from the confirmed double top is still unmet
3)The yen is strengthening across the board
4)Within the current triangle on the one-hour chart, the pair is running into resistance. The last two closed candles show long upper shadows that hint higher prices are being rejected
5)The most recent closed candle on the one-hour chart is a spinning top.
Spinning top candles have small bodies, black or white. They show the bulls and bears are in a tug of war. Even though the prior candle was a long white bullish one, the bulls haven’t entirely seized control. Some would say that these last two candles are a double top but that’s not true unless price breaks below the trough (the lowest point between the two).
Let’s just see what happens. Here’s the three-hour chart:
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