EUR/JPY Price Forecast: Bulls struggle at 187 amid intervention fears
- EUR/JPY holds near 185.60 after rebounding from intervention lows.
- Bullish RSI supports recovery, but neutral structure persists.
- Break above 187.50 exposes yearly high and 188.00.
The EUR/JPY trades horizontally on Monday as market participants remain reluctant to push the cross higher amid fears of potential intervention by Japanese authorities, even though they have remained shut following the coordinated action by the US and Japan. The cross trades at 185.59, virtually unchanged.
EUR/JPY Price Forecast: Technical Outlook
After falling from around 187.44 towards 182.12 on the three-day intervention day, the EUR/JPY has bounced off the 182.00 area and rallied back near the 186.00 mark. Momentum has shifted modestly bullish, as indicated by the Relative Strength Index (RSI), which has been bullish since mid-August.
From a market structure perspective, EUR/JPY is neutrally biased, but it could resume bullish if it breaks above the year-high near 188.00. However, on its way north, the first resistance is at 187.00, followed by the psychological 187.50 mark. A breach of the latter will expose the yearly high of 187.95 ahead of 188.00.
Downwards, the first support for EUR/JPY is the 100-day Simple Moving Average (SMA) at 185.14, followed by the 50-day SMA at 184.72. Once surpassed, the next stop is the 200-day SMA at 184.16, followed by 184.00.
EUR/JPY Price Chart – Daily
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