Daily Currency Outlook: Bearish On GPB/JPY, Fall For EUR/JPY

 | Aug 08, 2013 04:40AM ET

GBP/JPY Daily Outlook

Daily Pivots: (S1) 147.62; (P) 149.15; (R1) 150.72;

At this point, we're still favoring the bearish case that fall from 154.04 is resuming whole decline from 156.77. Below 147.61 will send GBP/JPY through 147.10 support to 100% projection of 156.77 to 147.10 from 154.04 at 144.37. However, break of 151.53 will bring stronger rebound to extend the consolidation from 147.10 instead.

In the bigger picture, a medium term top is in place at 156.77 on bearish divergence condition in daily MACD. Deeper pull back could be seen to 38.2% retracement of 118.82 to 156.77 at 142.27. Strong support would likely be seen at 140.37 to bring rebound, at least on first attempt. Overall, we'd still expect whole rise from 116.83 medium term bottom to resume later to 163.05 resistance and above after completing the correction.