COMPARING ALTERNATIVE FORECAST MODELSUSDJPY is looking at a bullish four-month baseline, but the two-month and 10-day measures are very bearish. So, it's possible that the four-month moving average is simply lagging behind and will eventually be turned south as well. Moreover, the rate is at the top of the 10-day price range and has reached first level resistance in the form of the inner upper band of the two-month price range envelope. This would suggest (to me) that a (position) trader MIGHT be able to profit from entering a short position as soon as the four-day baseline begins to turn over.
When you view the weekly chart configuration displaying the weekly price ranges (which probably equate to the projected maximum monthly candlestick lengths) you're looking at a neutral monthly price flow and a decidedly bullish weekly price flow, not to mention a decidedly bullish four-month price flow (though this last point of view is also true on the daily charts).
This contrasts sharply with the opinion derived from looking at the daily chart, that... "a (position) trader MIGHT be able to profit from entering a short position as soon as the four-day baseline begins to turn over."
Like the daily charts, the weekly chart converted from the trend lines that were transferred from U.S. index charts also has the bearish two-month price range envelopes, but… it too sports a bullish weekly baseline, not to mention bullish two-week and monthly baselines—again contrasting with the prognosis to enter a short position as soon as the four-day baseline begins to turn over.
This prompted me to plot the four-day price range envelop on the weekly charts, revealing it to more-or-less define itself as the maxim weekly candlestick length.
What all of this comes down to, basically, is that it looks to me like a position trader would best be served by remaining bullish so long as the weekly price flow maintains a positional relationship above an upward-sloping monthly baseline, and remaining in short positions so long as the weekly price flow maintains a positional relationship below a downward-sloping monthly baseline.
(It's not quite clear whether the monthly baseline really is neutral, or actually, just a tad bit bullish.)
This would recommend that a position trader EXIT a long position if and when the four-day baseline begins to turn over, and RE-ENTER the long position if and when the four-day baseline turns north again (so long as the monthly trend lines remain bullish).
It also means that all of the above interpretations of price action (listed in Post #210) can be thrown out and replaced by a forecast model consisting of nothing more than the weekly price flow and the monthly baseline.
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