USD/JPY Climbing Towards Intraday Swing Entry

‘ve been crazy busy putting out fires in my office – and perhaps even a little burnt out from the frantic trading and writing schedule I was keep so far this year. So I’ve been keeping an eye on longer-term set ups, namely on the 240-minute and daily time frames. The slower-pace has been suiting me right down to the ground.
The strength of the trends – which is the say the demolition of the U.S. Dollar – has been so steady longer-term that this longer-term, trend-following has been effective and fairly low maintenance.
But there are some pairs like the USD/JPY which have maintained range-bound trading behavior. Now I know the Japanese Yen has already had quite a year in terms of volatility. In fact the pip movement range has been relatively wide throughout the trading day.

The Channel Down chart pattern has been broken to the upside triggering a reversal on the 15-minute time frame.

240-minute USD/JPY trading higher towards my swing short zone between the 20 period SMA and 34 period EMA low.