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Gold Technical Analysis: Bulls take breather near a short-term ascending trend-channel resistance

   “¢   The precious metal reversed an early Asian session dip and climbed to fresh six-month tops, around $1287 region, in the last hour.  

   “¢   The post-Christmas up-move has been along a short-term ascending trend-channel, which was now seemed to act as an immediate hurdle.

   “¢   Slightly overbought technical indicators on the daily chart turned out to be one of the key factors that prompted some profit-taking.  

   “¢   However, oscillators on hourly charts maintained their bullish bias and hence, the pull-back might still be categorized as a buying opportunity.

Gold 30-mins. chart

XAU/USD

Overview:
       Today Last Price:  1285.4
       Today Daily change:  2.8e+2  pips
       Today Daily change %:  0.221%
       Today Daily Open:  1282.57
Trends:
       Previous Daily SMA20:  1255.92
       Previous Daily SMA50:  1234.97
       Previous Daily SMA100:  1221.32
       Previous Daily SMA200:  1229.3
Levels:
       Previous Daily High:  1282.85
       Previous Daily Low:  1279.4
       Previous Weekly High:  1284.7
       Previous Weekly Low:  1258.1
       Previous Monthly High:  1284.7
       Previous Monthly Low:  1221.39
       Previous Daily Fibonacci 38.2%:  1281.53
       Previous Daily Fibonacci 61.8%:  1280.72
       Previous Daily Pivot Point S1:  1280.36
       Previous Daily Pivot Point S2:  1278.16
       Previous Daily Pivot Point S3:  1276.91
       Previous Daily Pivot Point R1:  1283.81
       Previous Daily Pivot Point R2:  1285.06
       Previous Daily Pivot Point R3:  1287.26

 

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