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USD/JPY – 1H – Channel Breakdown & BoJ Rate Hike (02.09.2026)USD/JPY – 1H – Channel Breakout Pattern / Bearish Setup USD/JPY has rejected the 160.15–160.40 resistance zone and broken below the rising channel structure. The bearish move keeps 159.00 as the first key support, while a deeper decline could expose 158.50. Fundamentals are also becoming more yen-positive as BoJ hike expectations and intervention pressure increase. 🔴 1st Support : 159.00 🔴 2nd Support : 158.50 🟢 Resistance Zone : 160.15 – 160.40 📰 Fundamentals and Live Headlines : 1. BoJ Governor Ueda signaled that a September rate hike will be debated 2. Japanese bond yields moved higher USD/JPY - D1 chart also, wedge breakout. ⚠️ Disclaimer: This analysis is for educational purposes only. Support the idea 🚀 Boost | 💬 Comment | 🔁 Share Best Regards, KABHI_TA_TRADING Thank you.

by KABHI_TA_TRADING

#USDJPY Weekly: Price Reaches a Major Decision Zone!🔺USDJPY is trading near 156.20 after a strong rejection from the 162.00–164.00 premium selling region. The weekly chart now presents two credible scenarios: recovery from current support or a deeper correction toward lower liquidity. Neutral Price-Action Overview 🔺From the 2025 low near 140.00, USDJPY developed a sequence of higher highs and higher lows. Several bullish Breaks of Structure (BOS) confirmed that buyers controlled the broader advance. 🔺Price eventually reached the premium area around 162.00 and briefly traded near 164.00 before sellers responded. A premium zone represents the upper portion of a trading range where selling interest may increase, but reaching it does not automatically confirm a reversal. 🔺The subsequent decline has returned price to the rising trend line and previous breakout region near 155.00–156.50. This is an important decision area because it may either support another bullish expansion or give way to a larger correction. Bullish Scenario 🔺The bullish structure could remain valid if the current support region holds and price forms a clear rejection. Confirmation may include: * A bullish weekly rejection candle * A lower-timeframe Change of Character (CHoCH) * A new bullish BOS * Recovery and acceptance above 158.00–160.00 🔺If buyers regain control, the first significant objective would be the 162.00–164.00 resistance region. A sustained weekly close above 164.00 could expose higher levels around 168.00 and eventually 172.00. 🔺Until price reclaims the 158.00–160.00 area, however, bullish continuation remains a possibility rather than a confirmed move. Bearish Scenario 🔺A bearish continuation would become more convincing if USDJPY closes decisively below 155.00–156.00 and then fails to recover that region. 🔺This would indicate that the rising support structure has weakened and that the rejection from the premium zone may be developing into a broader correction. Potential downside objectives include: 1. 152.00–153.00 — previous internal-liquidity and structural area 2. 148.00–150.00 — former consolidation and demand region 3. 144.00 — the broader downside objective shown on the chart 🔺For a higher-quality bearish setup, traders could wait for a confirmed breakdown followed by a retest of the broken support as resistance. Selling directly into support carries the risk of entering just before a recovery. Invalidation Levels For the bullish scenario: 🔺A weekly close below 155.00 would weaken the immediate recovery setup. Continued selling below 152.00 would provide stronger evidence that a deeper correction is underway. For the bearish scenario: 🔺A sustained weekly close above 164.00 would invalidate the current reversal structure and support continuation toward higher price levels. Retail Trader Takeaway 🔺USDJPY is positioned between major resistance around 162.00–164.00 and immediate support near 155.00–156.50. Neither direction is fully confirmed at the current price. 🔺Retail traders should avoid predicting the next move solely from the trend-line test. A recovery above 158.00–160.00 would strengthen the bullish case, while a confirmed weekly breakdown below 155.00 would favour the bearish scenario. 🔺Wait for confirmation, place the stop-loss beyond the structure that supports the trade and adjust position size according to the distance of that stop. Treat each target as a possible reaction area rather than a guaranteed destination. LIKE AND COMMENT❤️ THE SETUPSFX_ TEAM

USDJPY 30Min Engaged ( Bearish Reversal Detected )HANZO MARKET LIQUIDITY REPORT USDJPY Timeframe: 30min (Volume Basis) Scale: Higher Timeframe Context / Deep Volume analysis ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ Market Observation This analysis is focusing on structural behavior, liquidity zones, Volume analysis and key areas of interest within the current range. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ Market Bias Full liquidity Map ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🔥Bearish Reversal Key Volume Zone : 157.900 Area ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ Structure Factors: • Higher timeframe Volume reaction level • High-volume / Hidden • Range Defend structure • Volume Stacking • Quarter Volume

by Path_Of_Hanzo

USDJPY: Suspected Intervention Triggers Sharp Sell-Off USDJPY: Suspected Intervention Triggers Sharp Sell-Off Yesterday during the opening of the US trading session, USDJPY and all XXXJPY pairs started to fall aggressively at the same time and the price fell by almost 170 pips in a few minutes. A clear signal of currency intervention. All in line with the Japan-US comments made on September 1. Japanese Finance Minister Katayama met with US Treasury Secretary Bessent at the G20, confirming that the yen and foreign exchange rates are essential for global financial stability and that joint intervention remains important, while refusing to comment on the current levels of the yen. In my opinion, Japan and the US are still making controlled currency interventions. The price fell by almost 220 pips yesterday and during the Tokyo trading session another decline of almost 170 pips began. The downward movement is almost 320 pips overall. USDJPY may extend the move to 156.80 - 155.50 The selling may get bigger. We never know when they will be able to stop this foreign exchange intervention or price manipulation. You can give it a name. ⚠️Be careful because if they stop the intervention, USDJPY may rise again. It's a crazy market and very volatile. You can find more details on the chart. Thank you! 🍀 ⚠️PS: Do your own analysis and use your own strategy to join the trade. ❤️ If this analysis helps your trading day, please support it with a like or comment ❤️

JPYUSD | Bearish Structure Near Key Support & Liquidity 🔹 JPYUSD remains within a broader bearish market structure, with price forming lower highs and lower lows inside the descending red trend channel. The recent rebound from the lower boundary was rejected near the 0.00630–0.00632 resistance and liquidity area, followed by renewed selling pressure. Price is now trading closer to the highlighted support zone around 0.00622–0.00624, making this area important for the next price action reaction. The structure currently favors caution while sellers maintain control below the descending resistance. 🔸 If the JPYUSD support zone holds, price could attempt a corrective bounce toward the nearby resistance and liquidity area, but confirmation from price action may be useful before considering any trade. A clear rejection from support could keep the broader bearish structure intact, while a decisive break below the support zone could expose further downside within the channel. Conversely, a strong reclaim of resistance might weaken the current bearish structure and suggest a potential shift in momentum. This analysis is for educational purposes only and does not constitute financial or investment advice. Always conduct your own research before making trading decisions.

USDJPY Bullish Breakout – Continuation Setup USDJPY has broken above the **159.70–159.80 resistance zone**, confirming bullish momentum. The rising trendline continues to support the higher-low structure, suggesting buyers may push price toward the next upside target. As long as price holds above the breakout area, the bullish setup remains valid. 🎯 **Buy Target: 160.62** 🛡️ **Key Support: 159.70–159.80** 📈 **Bias: Bullish above the breakout zone**

by SMART_MONEY_CIRCLE

USDJPY 1H:Bearish Rejection Resistance Trendline Break Potential USDJPY 1H: Bearish Rejection at Resistance & Trendline Break Potential USDJPY is testing the blue Resistance Area near 160.000–160.200 on the 1H chart, showing potential rejection. A breakdown below the primary ascending trendline could spark downside momentum toward lower support zones. 📉 Downside Map 🎯 Objective 1: 159.492 🎯 Objective 2: 158.887 ⚠️ Bearish Confirmation A sustained 1H close below the ascending trendline (around 159.800) strengthens the downside structure and increases the probability of a decline toward the 1st Support level. 📈 Invalidation A strong bullish breakout and 1H close above 160.200 would weaken the bearish setup and invalidate the expected reversal. Key Levels 🔴 Resistance Area: 160.000 - 160.200 🟢 First Objective: 159.492 🟢 Second Objective: 158.887 ⚡ Bias: Bearish below 160.200 upon trendline breakdown

by Elite_Forex_Signals_pro

USD/JPY | USDJPY Losing Momentum, $158 Is The Key!By analyzing the #USDJPY chart on the Daily timeframe, we can see that after the previous analysis, price managed to reach the 160.00 region but failed to maintain the recovery and is now trading around 158.67 . In my view, USDJPY could still move lower toward the important 158.00 level. If price breaks and stabilizes below this area, the probability of a deeper bearish move increases significantly. If this analysis has been useful so far, give it a Boost to support my work and let me know you want more USDJPY updates like this. ❤️ The next downside targets I’m watching are 157.50, 157.00, 156.30, 155.50 and potentially 154.50 if selling pressure continues. For now, 158.00 is the main level to watch .

by ArmanShabanTrading

USDJPY: Local Breakdown Targets Major Ascending Support FX:USDJPY is showing a bearish shift on the 1H timeframe after rejecting the upper resistance boundary and breaking below the recent local rising structure. Price is now trading below the 159.80–159.90 breakdown / retest zone . As long as this area holds as resistance, the current move can continue lower. The 159.10 area is the first intermediate support, while the broader target sits near the major ascending trendline around 158.65–158.80. Resistance: 159.80–159.90, 160.20 Support: 159.10, 158.65–158.80 A sustained reclaim above the local breakdown zone would weaken the bearish scenario, while continued rejection below it keeps pressure toward the major ascending support.

USDJPY – Range Support Back in Focus USDJPY has been trading within a large range, repeatedly reacting between its major support and resistance zones. After rejecting the upper side of the range, price moved sharply lower and is now retesting the lower boundary around the green support zone. As long as this support continues to hold, we will be looking for long setups, targeting a move back toward the upper areas of the range. 📌 Simple range logic: near support, we look for buys. Near resistance, we look for sells. ⚠️ Disclaimer: This analysis is for educational purposes only and does not constitute financial advice. Always manage your risk and wait for proper confirmation before entering a trade. 📚 Stick to your trading plan regarding entries, risk, and management. Good luck! 🍀 All Strategies Are Good; If Managed Properly! ~Richard Nasr

by TheSignalyst

USDJPY Hello Traders! 👋 What are your thoughts on USDJPY? Following intervention by the Bank of Japan, USD/JPY experienced a sharp decline from around 164.00 to 155.00, breaking below both the ascending trendline and the key 160.00 support zone. Price is currently in the process of completing a pullback toward the broken support area, which could now act as resistance. We expect the pullback to face selling pressure around the 159.60–160.70 resistance zone. If price is rejected from this area, the bearish structure would remain intact, increasing the probability of another decline toward lower levels. A rejection from the broken 160.00 area could trigger the next leg lower, with 157.00 and 155.00 as potential downside levels. The key level to watch remains the 160.00–160.70 zone. A decisive daily close above this area would weaken the bearish setup. If you found this analysis helpful, please support it with a like and share your thoughts in the comments! Good luck with your trades!❤️

USDJPY: Bullish Continuation 🇺🇸🇯🇵 A quick follow-up for yesterday's idea for USDJPY. The price retested a recently broken daily structure resistance. After its test, the price violated a resistance line of a bullish flag pattern on a 4H time frame. We can expect that the market will continue rising and reach 160.19 level. ❤️Please, support my work with like, thank you!❤️ I am part of Trade Nation's Influencer program and receive a monthly fee for using their TradingView charts in my analysis.

by VasilyTrader

USD/JPY: Another day, another intervention The USD/JPY pair dropped a further 130 pips to hit the 200-day moving average and then bounced back a little. It is still yet to get back to the pre-suspected-intervention level of 159.50ish, but i wouldn't bet against it. after all, previous rounds of yen-buying haven't worked, have they? All eyes on oil prices, which are now creeping higher again after the earlier decline. if oil bounces back, the USD/JPY may follow it higher. Line in the sand is at around 158.00. Bearish on closing break below that. Key levels to watch on the upside is art 159.50, then 160.00. By Fawad Razaqzada, market analyst with FOREX.com

USDJPY: Rebound Into Resistance Zone on 2H FX:USDJPY remains under bearish pressure on the 2H timeframe after the sharp breakdown from the upper part of the structure. Price has already reached the marked strong support area around 155.00 and is now attempting a corrective rebound. This bounce may extend toward the 157.80–158.20 resistance zone, which also aligns with the previously broken support area and keeps the current recovery limited for now. As long as USDJPY stays below the resistance zone and below the major descending resistance line, the broader bearish structure remains intact. In that case, the rebound could turn into a retest before sellers push the pair back down toward the 155.00 target zone again. Resistance: 157.80, 158.20, 160.00 Support: 156.00, 155.00

USDJPY – More Volatility Incoming For The Week Ahead?USDJPY volatility has been generating many of the headlines in the G10 FX space in recent days as traders try and work out the reasons for some of this popular currency pair’s unusual price action and whether recent moves are sustainable. On Wednesday last week, prices briefly hit a 1 month high of 160.39 before reversing quickly to touch a low of 155.29 just 48 hours later, eventually closing at 156.22 on Friday. Initial rumours suggested the drop could have been caused by further intervention or a rate check by Japanese authorities, which may have seemed a sensible explanation given the speed of the reversal, but no evidence could be found to back up this theory. Traders then shifted their focus to the possibility of the Bank of Japan (BoJ) hiking interest rates again when they next meet on September 17th and potentially indicating an openness to be more aggressive, hiking rates at a faster pace in the future, a move supported by comments made by BoJ board member Takata last week. With the Federal Reserve announcing their latest decision on interest rates a day before on September 16th, it could open the possibly for a significant shift in interest rate differentials that may have a more lasting impact on USDJPY price trends. Perhaps, the biggest outlier theory was the suggestion that the rise in Japan government bond yields to multi-year highs could lead Japanese funds to reallocate/repatriate capital back into domestic debt markets and out of US, UK, European and Australian markets, something that if it happened could lead to sustained demand for JPY against the USD. While it is too early to tell which, if any of these reasons, may dominate USDJPY price action moving across the remainder of September, it may be prudent for traders to reassess the technical backdrop just in case things start to become more volatile. Technical Update: USDJPY – Head and Shoulders Reversal Forming? Between the April 2025 low (138.89) and July 2026 high (163.99), USDJPY experienced a consistent period of price strength which resulted in a gain of over 18%. However, since the July 2026 high, trader sentiment has been dominated by both the threat and reality of Bank of Japan intervention, which has helped to prompt the recent weakness in price. However, from a technical perspective, what could be more significant is that recent price activity may be developing a potentially negative Head and Shoulders reversal. In technical analysis, this type of move would need to be confirmed by a close below the ‘neckline’ of the Head and Shoulders, which in the case of USDJPY appears to stand at 155.29 (trendline connecting recent lows). What is a Head and Shoulders Top? A bearish Head and Shoulders pattern is a technical chart formation signalling a potential reversal from an uptrend to a downtrend, confirmed when the price of an asset closes below the neckline support. As we can see in the chart below, the pattern consists of three peaks following an uptrend: Left Shoulder: Price rises to a peak and then declines to form a trough. In the case of USDJPY, this could be marked by the 160.46, March 2026 high. Head: Price rallies higher than the left shoulder, forming the tallest peak of the pattern, then falls again. This could be marked by the 163.99, July 2026 USDJPY high. Right Shoulder: Price rises once more after formation of the Head, but this strength fails to reach the previous high, forming a lower peak like the left shoulder. As the chart shows, this could be marked by the 160.39, August 2026 high. Neckline: A support line connecting the lows between the shoulders and head. It can be horizontal, upward‑sloping, or downward‑sloping, and serves as the critical level for confirming the reversal. As noted above, this neckline may now stand at 155.29 (September 4th low) for USDJPY. What Could a Head and Shoulders Top Mean for USDJPY? The Head and Shoulders pattern is a potential reversal of price strength, although a confirmed neckline closing break must be seen to complete the reversal. As such, traders could now be watching how the potential neckline support at 155.29 is defended on a closing basis. Closing breaks below 155.29 could suggest the risks of further downside momentum may be starting to reemerge. While not a guarantee of price weakness, closes below 155.29 could lead to declines and a retracement of the April 2025 to July 2026 strength. This could open further price weakness toward 151.96/152.09 (50% retracement of April 2025 to July 2026 strength and January 2026 low) and, if this level were also to give way, even to 149.12 (61.8% retracement). What Might End the Threat of the Head and Shoulders Top? If a Head and Shoulders pattern isn’t forming within USDJPY, how the potential resistance levels are defended on a closing basis may need to be monitored over the coming week. The initial resistance levels could sit at 157.29 (38.2% retracement of August to September 2026 weakness) and then 158.48 (61.8% level). However, it could be said that only closing breaks above 160.39 (Right Shoulder) may suggest risks could be turning back up toward fresh price strength, potentially leading to tests of 163.99 (July 2026 high). 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USDJPY 30Min Engaged ( Bullish Reversal Detected )HANZO MARKET LIQUIDITY REPORT USDJPY Timeframe: 30min (Volume Basis) Scale: Higher Timeframe Context / Deep Volume analysis ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ Market Observation This analysis is focusing on structural behavior, liquidity zones, Volume analysis and key areas of interest within the current range. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ Market Bias Full liquidity Map ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🔥Bullish Reversal Key Volume Zone : 159.770 Area ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ Structure Factors: • Higher timeframe Volume reaction level • High-volume / Hidden • Range Defend structure • Volume Stacking • Quarter Volume

by Path_Of_Hanzo

USDJPY 30Min Engaged ( Bearish Reversal Detected )HANZO MARKET LIQUIDITY REPORT USDJPY Timeframe: 30min (Volume Basis) Scale: Higher Timeframe Context / Deep Volume analysis ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ Market Observation This analysis is focusing on structural behavior, liquidity zones, Volume analysis and key areas of interest within the current range. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ Market Bias Full liquidity Map ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🔥Bearish Reversal Key Volume Zone : 155.870 Area ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ Structure Factors: • Higher timeframe Volume reaction level • High-volume / Hidden • Range Defend structure • Volume Stacking • Quarter Volume

by Path_Of_Hanzo

USDJPY: Confirmed BoS 🇺🇸🇯🇵 I see a valid bullish break of structure on USDJPY on a daily time frame. The broken structure turned into a potentially strong horizontal support. The price is retesting that at the moment. I expect that the pair will continue rising and reach 160.75 level soon. ❤️Please, support my work with like, thank you!❤️ I am part of Trade Nation's Influencer program and receive a monthly fee for using their TradingView charts in my analysis.

by VasilyTrader

USDJPY: Trendline Support & Bullish Continuation USDJPY: Trendline Support & Bullish Continuation 🚀 USDJPY is holding above the ascending trendline and the Support Area (159.100 - 159.300) on the 1H chart, indicating potential upward momentum targeting the upper resistance level. Trade Plan: • Entry: Market Price / Dip near 159.450 • Stop Loss: 159.100 • Target: 159.814 Invalidation: 1H close below 159.100. Note: Educational purposes only. Always use proper risk management.

by Elite_Forex_Signals_pro

Yen carry trade crash has started I said 161.8 The chart posted is US $ YEN cross I said 161.8 Stocks will soon turn in a major decline to follow .Best of trades WAVETIMER

Will BOJ intervene in September?After pumping almost $100billion into the market on their last intervention, the dollar is still up against JPY. Will BOJ intervene again? Chances are high

USDJPY – Potential Bearish Reversal from 160–161 Supply Zone From a higher-timeframe perspective, the recent drop may represent the beginning of a larger corrective phase, while the current recovery could be a retracement rather than the start of a new bullish leg. I’m watching the 160.00–161.00 zone closely for signs of rejection. A strong upper wick or bearish reaction from this area could provide confirmation that sellers are stepping back in. If the zone holds, I expect another bearish leg, with the broader downside scenario potentially extending toward the 147.00 area.