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Gold Technical Analysis: Risk-off mood helped limit deeper losses, only for the time being

   “¢   The precious metal failed to confirm previous session’s bullish breakthrough a short-term descending trend-line and came under some renewed selling pressure on Friday.

   “¢   Weakness below 100-hour SMA was seen as a key trigger for bearish traders, though now seemed to show some resilience near  the $1220 horizontal zone amid risk-off mood.

   “¢   Technical indicators on the 1-hourly chart have been gaining negative momentum and started losing traction on 4-hourly/daily charts, suggesting a further intraday decline.

     “¢    However, traders are likely to wait for a sustained breakthrough 23.6% Fibo. level of the recent up-move and a subsequent fall below $1220 level before initiating aggressive bearish positions.

Gold 1-hourly chart

XAU/USD

Overview:
       Today Last Price:  1224.14
       Today Daily change:  -2.7e+2  pips
       Today Daily change %:  -0.222%
       Today Daily Open:  1226.86
Trends:
       Previous Daily SMA20:  1219.12
       Previous Daily SMA50:  1217.5
       Previous Daily SMA100:  1207.24
       Previous Daily SMA200:  1237.34
Levels:
       Previous Daily High:  1229.09
       Previous Daily Low:  1224.6
       Previous Weekly High:  1225.4
       Previous Weekly Low:  1196
       Previous Monthly High:  1243.43
       Previous Monthly Low:  1182.54
       Previous Daily Fibonacci 38.2%:  1227.37
       Previous Daily Fibonacci 61.8%:  1226.32
       Previous Daily Pivot Point S1:  1224.61
       Previous Daily Pivot Point S2:  1222.36
       Previous Daily Pivot Point S3:  1220.12
       Previous Daily Pivot Point R1:  1229.1
       Previous Daily Pivot Point R2:  1231.34
       Previous Daily Pivot Point R3:  1233.59

 

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