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#YenHits40YearLow 💴
Yen at 40-Year Low. Currency Crisis or Opp
The Japanese yen is at a 40-year low. This is a deal that people who trade crypto should pay attention to.
At first it seems like a story about money.. When a currency gets this weak it can cause problems in many other areas, not just forex.
The yen is weak because Japan did not raise interest rates much as other countries. This made people want to take their money out of Japan, which put pressure on the yen.
This is the story about what is happening with the yen.
There are some reasons to be worried. If the yen gets even weaker it can cause problems in the market make people want to buy and sell things quickly and make it harder to predict what will happen. If Japan tries to stop the yen from getting weaker or if people start selling the things they bought with money from Japan it can cause problems with money moving around the world.. When there are problems with money moving around the world it usually affects crypto too.
This is the risk that traders need to think about.
There is another way to look at it. When a currency is very weak people might look for things to put their money in, like gold or Bitcoin because they do not think the currency is safe.
This is where things get interesting for people who trade crypto.
I am not just looking at the headlines I am looking at how the market reacts.
Will the Bank of Japan try to make the yen stronger?
Will people start selling the things they bought with money from Japan?
Will Bitcoin become a place for people to put their money?
These are the things that matter not just what people are saying because they are scared.
My thought is that the yen being at a 40-year low is not a story about forex.
It is a sign about what's happening with money.
When it comes to markets what is happening with money is usually more important than what people are saying.
Sometimes the biggest changes in crypto happen because of changes in the world that many people who trade are not paying attention to.
What do you think. Could the yen being weak be good, for Bitcoin. Is it a sign that the market is going to be unstable?
#GateSquare #Yen #macro
YEN PLUNGES TO 40-YEAR LOW OF 162 – BOJ HIKE Couldn’t Halt Slide & That Tells You All You Need to Know 40-year-low at 162 – can BOJ stop fall? Today, the yen dropped to 162 against the greenback for the first time in 40 years-1986 to be precise. If it was an almost forgotten, regular foreign exchange slip, what I have is this to make it unequivocally disturbing news for 2026 and particularly for crypto traders who are short on appreciating its implication in risk assets today.
So, what is precisely happening?
At this level, one can’t but ask: even with BOJ rate hikes (June, at 1% the current range), an extremely direct, active and almost desperate market intervention - this weakness is still not curbed, so what else must be occurring to fuel it? Any country central bank, that wields the twin forces of direct monetary tightening policy (a rate hike in this scenario) AND actual currency intervention, but STILL see its currency slumping that steeply - that tells us, with a brutal certainty, that a fundamental problem is at play - one that far outreaches the capacity of just money policy alone! - This huge disparity in rates between the US and Japan has been and is the driving engine of it all: with the Federal Reserve, and policy rates of a firm 5% coupled by soaring 4.1% PCE inflation leading the market into bets of further hikes in July, whilst Japan's rock-bottom 1% policy rate that we’ve all now heard about multiple times (after its month's hike that had no effect)-the interest rate differentiation continues its rampant upward run - offering a carry trade incentive whereby, if you borrow cheaply the Japanese Yen and get high returns, you then swap out for dollar-denominated assets. This interest rate differential thus gets wider with every percentage point in hikes in the Fed, as it grows in inverse correlation to Yen strength. It’s very well recorded in the annals of history that carry trade intervention yields only temporary respite for such currencies, by giving an artificial impetus to Yen demand that quickly fades when the money flows out as fast as it comes in.
Now, the carry trade’s extreme, historically, has often given way not in a measured retreat, but to a sharp, potentially brutal unwind - usually triggered by either a major shift in Fed policy or a BOJ intervention that is truly effective- that ultimately can have serious reverberations in all asset classes.
If we have all this happening to the yen, what about the direct effects on the global financial markets, especially, in Bitcoin and all risk-assets today, this dollar strength is fueling the extreme $884billionUSdollar-into US capital inflows that have continued for weeks, a capital flow primarily fuelled by Japanese investors, institutional money in their domestic funds and even the nation’s pensions - all of whom are eager to obtain higher returns and are thus furiously borrowing their yen for dollar denominated assets including US stocks and Treasuries, a phenomenon that represents a dual-edge force - weakening the yen and in turn compressing Bitcoin even further in dollar terms. This has resulted into both of what is now the carry trade, both for stocks and also crypto- a Yen Carry TRADE that is the direct structural parallel for Bitcoin’s downward pressures. What you all should keenly be looking at for what has potentially historically led to the extreme volatility in risk assets.
That, as history reveals, that a breakdown in an extended or exaggerated Yen Carry Trade often results into an amplified and abrupt collapse in the value of all risky and high-yield assets including Bitcoin, a trend that, when it’s eventually initiated - by some factor - will be a significant catalyst not just for Bitcoin but across global markets for the balance of 2026. This 40-year low of Yen today & despite BOJ rate hike implies we just witness the extreme end of the yen-carrytrade which may result to a catastrophic, amplified unwind creating huge risk assets volatility and impacting Bitcoin – yes or no?
#GateSquare #MacroCrypto @Gate_Square