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dollar is expected to hold between 154.30 and 157.60 Japanese yen this week. That projection tells you where the pair is supposed to stay contained.
What it declines to specify is which boundary draws the first meaningful test, or whether there is any bias toward either end of the band. A range forecast is a particular kind of market statement.
It prices in the extremes as unlikely without saying anything about whether the tape gravitates toward 157.60 or presses back toward 154.30.
The case for watching the top of the band is not the same as the case for watching the floor, and the projection itself offers no mechanism to distinguish between them. The counterargument is structural.
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