Price Analysis of the AUD/JPY: Will History Repeat Itself? If this is the case, expect much lower levels in the future

Bears in the AUD/JPY have been breaking new ground below 83, paving the way for further declines in the coming days. The pair is the forex space’s risk barometer, and as the Ukraine crisis worsens, financial markets are being pushed to exit risk and seek safe havens like the yen. This renewed conflict and risk in markets over Ukrainian territory began in November of last year, when the first satellite imagery revealed a new buildup of Russian troops on Ukraine’s border.

It has escalated in recent months to the point where a Russian attack on Ukrainian territory is expected to be underway, according to Ukraine and the US. AUD/JPY has been created in kind, but given the complexities of the situation, any pullbacks are likely to fade. This is not a crisis that will be resolved in a single G& or UN summit before the end of the week. It is a dispute that has raged since 2013, when President Viktor Yanukovych rejected a deal for greater integration with the European Union backed by Russia but was quickly driven out of the country by protesters. Since then, a series of events in Russia’s attempt to reclaim the eastern territories have brought the country to its knees the relationship between Russia and the West to its lowest point since the Cold War.

This is a crisis that is here to stay, potentially (likely) worsening into outright conflict before any diplomatic middle ground can be found. As a result, for the foreseeable future, there is little chance of a recovery in AUD/JPY beyond recently printed highs made in recent sessions. Even though the pair has already reached lows of 1.29 percent in the last twelve hours of trading between the New York open and Asian markets, the path of least resistance remains to the downside.