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Tokyo Hands London 46 Pips and a CPI Beat That Was All Diesel
Six hours of Tokyo produced forty-six pips in USD/JPY and thirteen in EUR/USD. UK CPI beat to 3.1% and every basis point of it was motor fuel — core held at 2.6%, so the print tells you not to trade it. The only order book we can read is EUR/JPY: stops at 179.50, sells and stops together at 180.00, and nothing real bid until 177.70. No expiry ladder for today at 06:26, the fifth time we have counted. With the Fed under twelve hours out, London is a sizing question, not a direction one.
155.00 Held on the Third Attempt. At 23:50 Tokyo Finally Gets a Japanese Number.
USD/JPY has taken 155.00 three times in thirty-six hours. The first two were handed straight back inside the session; the third stuck — New York closed 155.10, seventy-five sen up, on a 154.21–155.24 range, with the ten-year at a nineteen-year 5.0390% and the Dow down 399. Three sessions running, every link in the yen's chain has been American. At 23:50 UTC Japan finally supplies its own numbers — trade balance, exports, imports and core machinery orders in one minute — and on the evidence of the last three sessions Tokyo will not trade a single one of them. We are putting that in writing so it can be marked.
AUD/JPY Is Boxed Between 113.50 and 115 — What That Means for Your EA Today
AUD/JPY is sitting mid-range around 114.50 with order clusters above and below. Here is how a system trader should read that, why the JPY crosses are a concentration risk right now, and which events reshape the picture tonight.