Gold gets up and dusts itself off

Gold (XAU/USD) has been getting knocked down lately, and no one is quite sure why. Gold moved lower when stocks moved higher, moved lower when stocks moved lower, and today moved higher when stocks moved higher.

Regardless, after the precious metal was beaten down to the bottom trendline of the downward sloping channel which began in August 2020, Gold was able to bounce nearly 2%, back above 1700, to near 1715. Notice that the bottom channel line confluences with the 61.8% Fibonacci retracement from the March 16^th pandemic lows to the post-pandemic highs of August 7^th, near 1692.2. In addition, the RSI was in oversold territory, which was another reason to expect the bounce.

Source: Tradingview, City Index

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On a 240-minute timeframe, Gold has been moving lower in a descending wedge since February 18^th. The expectation is that price will break out of the descending wedge in the opposite direction as price nears the apex. Today price broke out. The target for the breakout of a descending wedge is 100% retracement of the wedge, which would be near the 50% retracement of the move lower from January 6^th to yesterday’s lows, and horizontal resistance, near 1817.50. However, price must first beak through horizontal resistance near 1760 (which also confluences with horizontal resistance on the daily chart) and the 38.2% Fibonacci retracement level from the previously mentioned timeframe near 1785.

Source: Tradingview, City Index

If price can’t continue high and bears step in, the first support level is the March 8^th lows, which confluences with the downward sloping trendline of the descending wedge (and the bottom trendline on the daily timeframe), near 1678. Below there, price can fall to horizontal support from March 2020 near 1643 and then horizontal support dating back to August 2019, near 1555.

XAU/USD seems as if it has been marching to the beat of its own drum lately. However, the technicals seem to have been working. If proper risk/reward management is used, Gold can be a profitable trading asset.

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