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Gold Technical Analysis: Yellow Metal bulls hesitant below the 1,230.00 resistance

Daily chart

  • Gold is trading in a bear trend below the 200-period simple moving average (SMAs).  
  • Bulls reclaimed the 50 and 100 SMA with the 50 SMA crossing above the 100 SMA.
  • The RSI and Stochastic indicators are both trading above the 50 line while the MACD is also turning bullish.

4-hour chart

  • Gold found resistance at $1,230.00 a troy ounce.    
  • Gold formed a wedge-shaped pattern followed by a double top.  
  • A pullback to 1,217.70 should be next.

30-minute chart

  • Technical indicators are losing their bullishness.
  • All suggesting a breakdown to 1,217.00

Additional key levels

XAU/USD

Overview:
       Last Price:  1226.93
       Daily change:  1.2e+2  pips
       Daily change:  0.0946%
       Daily Open:  1225.77
Trends:
       Daily SMA20:  1218.93
       Daily SMA50:  1216.81
       Daily SMA100:  1207.08
       Daily SMA200:  1237.73
Levels:
       Daily High:  1230.3
       Daily Low:  1219.4
       Weekly High:  1225.4
       Weekly Low:  1196
       Monthly High:  1243.43
       Monthly Low:  1182.54
       Daily Fibonacci 38.2%:  1226.14
       Daily Fibonacci 61.8%:  1223.56
       Daily Pivot Point S1:  1220.01
       Daily Pivot Point S2:  1214.26
       Daily Pivot Point S3:  1209.11
       Daily Pivot Point R1:  1230.91
       Daily Pivot Point R2:  1236.06
       Daily Pivot Point R3:  1241.81

 

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