Gold Price Forecast: XAUUSD eyes $1,845 and $1,842 on aggressive Fed tightening bets – Confluence Detector
|- Gold Price slips from five-week highs as Fed set to hike rate aggressively.
- The US dollar, yields soar on the Fed expectations and risk-off flows.
- XAUUSD remains exposed to more downside ahead of the Fed decision.
Gold Price is correcting sharply from five-week peaks of $1,879, reversing most of Friday’s strong rally. The inverse correlation between the US Treasury yields and the bright metal is back in play. Benchmark 10-year yields are trading at their highest level since 2018 on bets that the Fed will go for a 75 bps rate hike at least once in its next three meetings to curb rampant inflation. The zero-yielding gold is feeling the heat of soaring yields, which have driven the US dollar higher. Aggressive Fed tightening expectations have overshadowed heightening recession fears while influencing XAUUSD price. Markets now eagerly await Wednesday’s Fed decision for the rate hike guidance and its impact on the related assets.
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Gold Price: Key levels to watch
The Technical Confluence Detector shows that Gold Price challenged the fierce support at $1,853, which is the convergence point of the 10-day SMA and 200-4hr SMA.
The next significant downside target is pegged at $1,845, where both the daily and weekly Fibonacci 61.8% retracements merge.
Further south, the 200-day SMA at $1,842 will test bullish commitments once again, opening floors for a retest of the weekly S1 pivot point and daily S1 pivot point where they intersect at $1,839.
On the flip side, bulls will test the confluence of the daily and monthly Fibonacci 38.21% retracements at $1,858, above which a fresh advance towards $1,863 cannot be ruled out.
At that level, the monthly Fibonacci 61.8% and daily and weekly Fibonacci 23.6% retracements coincide.
Friday’s high of $1,876 will be put to test should bulls resume their recent momentum.
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