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Gold Technical Analysis: Once again fails near 1-week old trading range hurdle

   “¢   The precious metal struggled to build on the overnight positive momentum and was again seen retreating from the top end of a near one-week-old trading range.  

   “¢   The recent price-action constituted towards the formation of a rectangle, usually seen as continuation pattern but sometimes mark significant trend tops/bottoms.

   “¢   The fact that bulls have repeatedly failed ahead of the $1300 psychological mark points to increased selling pressure/long-unwinding pressure at higher levels.

   “¢   However, bullish technical indicators on hourly/daily charts remain supportive of persistent dip-buying interest at the lower end of the recent trading band.

   “¢   Hence, traders are likely to wait for a convincing breakthrough the mentioned range before positioning aggressively for the commodity’s next leg of a directional move.

Gold 1-hourly chart

XAU/USD

Overview:
       Today Last Price:  1292.61
       Today Daily change:  -49  pips
       Today Daily change %:  -0.0379%
       Today Daily Open:  1293.1
Trends:
       Previous Daily SMA20:  1281.08
       Previous Daily SMA50:  1249.37
       Previous Daily SMA100:  1231.38
       Previous Daily SMA200:  1228.91
Levels:
       Previous Daily High:  1295.25
       Previous Daily Low:  1276.2
       Previous Weekly High:  1297.15
       Previous Weekly Low:  1279.35
       Previous Monthly High:  1284.7
       Previous Monthly Low:  1221.39
       Previous Daily Fibonacci 38.2%:  1287.97
       Previous Daily Fibonacci 61.8%:  1283.48
       Previous Daily Pivot Point S1:  1281.12
       Previous Daily Pivot Point S2:  1269.14
       Previous Daily Pivot Point S3:  1262.07
       Previous Daily Pivot Point R1:  1300.17
       Previous Daily Pivot Point R2:  1307.23
       Previous Daily Pivot Point R3:  1319.22

 

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