USDJPY - Follow Through + Weekly Mapping

Pair: USDJPY
Bias: Bullish (HTF continuation, monitoring for deeper retracement)
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HTF Overview (4H / Daily):
Price continued with bullish orderflow, breaching mid-term and higher timeframe highs, delivering into major external liquidity.
Last week’s idea anticipated liquidity engineering into a POI for continuation, which was respected. Price tapped into the order block with inducement and delivered an aggressive expansion.
However, no secondary entry formed — momentum showed strong institutional participation, offering no clean retracement or inducement sweep for re-entry.
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Price Behavior:
No valid lower timeframe structure shift presented after the initial decline.
Continuation lacks without a proper shift confirmation model, reinforcing:
No shift = no entry. Discipline maintained.
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Current Positioning (Going Into This Week):
After breaching HTF highs, price initiated a deep liquidity run, sweeping inducement & engineering and reacting from a higher timeframe order block.
Momentum suggests potential for:
● Deeper retracement into HTF POIs
● Rebalancing inefficient price action
Lower timeframe currently lacks bullish structure, so immediate continuation entries are not favorable.
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Execution Plan:
● Monitor for deeper range expansion into HTF POIs
● Wait for clear LTF structure shift (5M confirmation model)
● Avoid chasing highs without internal confirmation
If bullish continuation resumes, it will likely form:
● Near internal highs OR
● After deeper sweep into discounted zones
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Targets:
● External liquidity above recent major highs
● Continuation of bullish HTF delivery

Patience over prediction.
Tracking orderflow > forcing entries.
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Watchlist Bias:
● AUDJPY – Bullish
● GBPJPY – Bullish
● CADJPY – Bullish
● EURGBP – Bullish
● EURUSD – Bullish
● USDCHF – Bearish
● USDCAD – Bearish
● AUDCAD – Bullish (short-term bearish)
● GBPUSD – Bullish
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Note:
Strong momentum phases won’t always offer re-entry.
The edge is in waiting for price to come back into my framework — not chasing price outside of it.

GBPUSD – Supplemental Outlook
Price has successfully breached midterm system highs, confirming bullish higher timeframe intent.

Current expectation is for sell-side liquidity to be engineered and swept, delivering price into a mid-term order block for mitigation.

From that point, I’ll be monitoring for:

Clear lower timeframe shift back to bullish
Confirmation of re-accumulation
Execution Plan:
No participation until sell-side liquidity is taken and price reaches the HTF POI.
Targets:

Mid-term highs
Continuation of HTF bullish delivery
Note:
This is a patience-based setup — waiting for discount pricing rather than chasing premium highs.