USD/JPY Currency Strength

US Dollar vs Japanese Yen · yesterday's daily reading

Which side of USD/JPY was doing the work: yesterday's strength scores for the US Dollar and the Japanese Yen, measured across all 28 major pair combinations, plus the scanner's trend detail for the pair itself.

Reading for Saturday, July 18, 2026

Scale -100 (weakest) to +100 (strongest). Rank is the currency's place among the eight majors in this reading.

CcyRankScore1d change
USD#5 of 8
-2.50.0
JPY#8 of 8
-100.00.0

Strength differential: +97.5 points toward the US Dollar. The US Dollar ranked #5 and the Japanese Yen #8 of the eight majors.

Delayed data: this page updates once per day with the prior day's final reading. Historical measurement of trend behaviour, not a recommendation.

Scanner detail for USD/JPY

State of the USD/JPY chart at the time of this reading (Jul 18, 20:05 UTC), not your live chart. Candles have closed since; the fast timeframes below can differ from what you see now.

Trend read
Dailybullish4-hourbullishCombinedbullishMeasured at the reading time. The daily read typically holds for a day; the 4-hour read is several closed bars old by now and may have flipped since.
Multi-timeframe confidence
32 / 100How strongly the daily and 4-hour reads agreed at the reading time.
Last break of structure · Daily
160.596Jun 11, 2026
Last break of structure · 4-hour
162.421Jul 15, 2026

A break of structure is the most recent price level where the scanner measured the USD/JPY trend breaking a prior swing point, as of the reading time; newer breaks may have happened since. Chart-state description from yesterday's reading, not a level recommendation. The current chart state updates through the day in Pro.

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This page shows yesterday. Pro shows now: the daily meter updated through the trading day, a separate intraday reading on a 15-minute cadence, data-freshness indicators, strength history, and the rest of the IntelliTrade dashboard.

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USD/JPY strength questions

What does the USD/JPY currency strength reading show?

It shows how the US Dollar (USD) and the Japanese Yen (JPY) each scored in yesterday's daily strength reading, on a -100 to +100 scale. Each score aggregates that currency's trend behaviour across all 28 pair combinations of the eight majors, not just USD/JPY itself, so you can see which side of the pair carried the recent pressure.

What is the USD/JPY strength differential?

The differential is the USD score minus the JPY score. A large positive differential means the US Dollar read broadly stronger than the Japanese Yen in yesterday's reading; a large negative one means the reverse; values near zero mean the two currencies read similarly. It is a summary of measured trend behaviour, not a forecast for USD/JPY.

What do the daily and 4-hour trend reads for USD/JPY mean?

Alongside the per-currency scores, the scanner records the trend direction it measured on the USD/JPY daily and 4-hour charts, a combined read when both agree, a multi-timeframe confidence figure, and the price level of the last break of structure it detected on each timeframe. These describe the state of the USD/JPY chart at the exact time of the reading, which is shown on the page. Because this free page carries yesterday's reading, several 4-hour candles have closed since: the daily read usually still applies the next day, but the live 4-hour state can already differ from the chip shown here.

How current is this USD/JPY data, and is it a signal?

This free page shows yesterday's final daily reading and updates once per day, so everything on it, including the 4-hour detail, is a snapshot from the reading time shown, not the current chart. The live meter updated through the trading day is part of IntelliTrade Pro. Nothing here is a trade signal or recommendation: strength readings measure what already happened in the market and are meant as context for your own USD/JPY analysis.

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