USD/JPY ratio: -1.15
Trading Forecast: Bullish

USDJPY – Our contrarian forex trading strategies remain long the USD/JPY, as forex sentiment has increasingly pointed to further rallies. Indeed, the forex trading crowd remains net-short the currency pair; only 47 percent of traders are currently long. Yesterday we saw that 55 percent of open positions were long, but a 79.8 percent surge in short positions clearly shows that sentiment has turned. Long positions, by comparison, are only 29.6 percent higher overnight. When price is trending higher and the crowd continues to sell into rallies, our Speculative Sentiment Index gives a contrarian signal to continue buying into price advances.