Gold Price Analysis: Short-term ascending triangle keeps bears hopeful


  • Gold remains below $1560/62 area since late-January 08.
  • Four-day-old rising trend line limits immediate declines.
  • A lack of momentum seems to trouble traders.

Gold prices seesaw around $1,558 during early Monday. The yellow metal recently took a U-turn from multi-day-old horizontal resistance but is still trading inside the short-term rising triangle. Also, RSI and MACD are troubling traders while portraying no major momentum.

However, multiple pullbacks from $1,560/62, coupled with broad US dollar strength, keep the odds of the bullion’s declines.

With this, sellers’ will look for a clear break of $1,555 to aim for the mid-month low surrounding $1,547 and the monthly bottom near $1,543 during further declines.

Alternatively, buyers could sneak in if the quote rallies successfully beyond $1,562. In doing so, 50% and 61.8% Fibonacci retracements of the declines from January 08 to January 15, at $1,573 and $1,582 respectively, will please the bulls.

Gold four-hour chart

Trend: Sideways

Additional important levels

Overview
Today last price 1558.44
Today Daily Change 1.26
Today Daily Change % 0.08%
Today daily open 1557.18
 
Trends
Daily SMA20 1535.12
Daily SMA50 1494.78
Daily SMA100 1497.16
Daily SMA200 1437.38
 
Levels
Previous Daily High 1561.26
Previous Daily Low 1549.66
Previous Weekly High 1562
Previous Weekly Low 1536.35
Previous Monthly High 1525.1
Previous Monthly Low 1454.05
Daily Fibonacci 38.2% 1556.83
Daily Fibonacci 61.8% 1554.09
Daily Pivot Point S1 1550.81
Daily Pivot Point S2 1544.43
Daily Pivot Point S3 1539.2
Daily Pivot Point R1 1562.41
Daily Pivot Point R2 1567.64
Daily Pivot Point R3 1574.02

 

 

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