AUD/JPY could see some action in the upcoming Asia session with potential catalysts on deck from Australia, China and Japan.
Before moving on, ICYMI, today’s Daily U.S. Session Watchlist looked at a NZD/CAD ahead of OPEC-related news, so be sure to check that out to see if there is still a potential play!
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What to Watch: AUD/JPY

On the one hour chart of AUD/JPY above, we’ve got a short-term trend to the upside in play, but the market is running into a potential resistance area just under the 84.50 area. This area was a consolidation area just last week, so traders may be waiting there to potentially take profits from last week’s rally or put on fresh short positions.
We’ll likely have to wait and see what the bias will be as we do have several economic catalysts on the calendar ahead. Most are low to mid tier events, so there isn’t one notable one to watch, but if we see a general consensus of positive or negative updates, we may get a directional bias on AUD/JPY through the Wednesday session.
With the longer-term price trend favoring the bulls on AUD/JPY and if broad risk sentiment can lean positive, we’ll be looking for an upside break of the resistance area under 84.50 on positive data from both Australia and China.
If we see a pullback ahead of today’s events, even better for the bulls, and if the data comes out better-than-expected, bullish reversal patterns forming around 83.00 – 83.50 would likely draw in the bulls, especially if broad risk sentiment is leaning positive.
Rising bond yield have been an issue for a while, and if they continue to rise (and or we see other negative catalysts on risk sentiment), then look out for the yen to strengthen against the Aussie on potential risk aversion flows.
This scenario plus weaker-than-expected updates from Australia and China would likely make a short play a viable short-term strategy to consider, and if we see a break below 83.50 in that scenario, look out for the next move to be to the previous swing lows around 82.70 – 83.00 (well within the daily ATR range of around 70 pips).