Check out my previous Gold deep dive from early October here to see how we have progressed...
There is an overall bullish flag pattern trend on Gold, as we saw an impulsive move from 1450 to 2075 between March and August 2020. Ever since hitting the all-time high (ATH), price has fallen into a descending channel hitting as low as 1675 three times. In May 2021, we saw a potential move back to ATH's but this was unsuccessful as price did re-enter the channel. Now, we are seeing price reach these recent highs around 1900, suggesting could be on it's way to try to successfully break through recent highs and back to ATH's above 2000+.
Looking at recent moves over the past couple of weeks, you can see price has been breaking through every short-term and long-term key horizontal level. 1765 acted as clear resistance, once broken became new support. 1800 is currently being retested as new support, just like 1765 it was clear resistance. Look out for how price reacts to this level, a break lower could suggest further bearish moves to happen and opens up price to 1765. If price rejects and pusher higher, this level is confirmed as clear support and a bullish move towards 1835 is likely.
Looking at retail sentiment, most traders are actually long on this pair with the majority being 74% long. This means that traders are actually looking to catch the move I just described above. Traders who trade against this concept (against retail traders) could actually see a bearish move more likely now, as institutions will likely be pushing price towards liquidity voids where traders going long will have their stop losses.
Over the next week and a half, we have many USD economic data coming out. The quarterly GDP rate is coming out expected at a 0.2% uptick from 2.0% to 2.2%. We have the PCE Price Index expecting a 0.2% uptick, and alongside these we have a couple "smaller" macroeconomic data releasing including personal income and spending figures.
Most importantly though, we're having the FOMC Meeting Minutes where we will get clues on when they plan on hiking interest rates. Recall that the Fed has already started to taper asset purchases confirming they are en route towards tightening possibly by mid-2022. However, in the recent dot plot forecast, it was indicated that half of the committee were not so eager about hiking next year yet.
Just before the scheduled shutdown at 12:01 am on Sunday, Congress voted to extend the deadline for another 45 days. Yields jumped higher to above 5.1% which has remained elevated for some time. As we enter an historically bullish month for the indices, here are some setups on dollar, gold and index setups EdgeFinder Analysis […]
GDP numbers came in lower than expected in the US, marking the third straight drop in economic output. This is usually good news for the stock market indices and gold, however, bond yields continue to hold up above 5.1%. Here are some potential trade setups for both dollar and index longs depending on how the […]
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