Hello,
As awaited the Japanese news was released and helped our trades. Usd/Jpy didn't move immediately in our direction, but sometimes moves play out over the course of a few hours as traders figure out what they want to do and the manipulators have chance to run those positions.
Japanese purchasing of foreign bonds had increased from 44.2bln yen to 675.2bln yen, foreign stocks had increased from 382.1bln yen to 457.9bln yen. As for their purchasing of Japanese bonds, that dropped from 236.3bln yen to 70.2bln yen. Purchasing of Japanese stocks dropped from 464.8bln yen to 104.bln yen. Wow! the purchasing of foreign bonds increased +1428%. That blows me away, and the purchasing of domestic bonds and stocks fell an average of -74%. In a simplistic view of this, a layman's view, I would say this shows their doubt in the stability of their economy. I haven't delved too deep into the structure of their finances, so they could be balancing it all out in some way, but as for trading it on a time frame of a couple days, I think most traders are looking at the currency the way I stated. From the time of this economic news, the Usd/Jpy has moved up about +0.17% as I type this. The pair also seems to be unable to find a direction and wants to oscillate back and forth across the 117.45, ranging between 117.10 to 117.70
For tomorrow we have non-farm payrolls and unemployment, so we'll go ahead and hold to see what happens then.
Have a good evening and good luck,
Professor Chaney