Gold Chart of The Week

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Weekly Gold Report (July 8^th through July 12^th)

As expected, markets overall went through the lighter volume volatility trade last week due to the July 4^th Holiday. The only standout was the Crude Oil Futures, which spent the entire week pricing in the news in Egypt. Aside from that, most other markets went through the usual rangy market swings that are expected around shortened Holiday weeks, especially those in the Summer.

I anticipate we will see similar movement in the week ahead as Summer trading continues. Additionally, the upcoming week is a bit light on tradable news. Aside from reviews from the monthly meetings of the Central Banks in the US and Japan, we begin quarterly earnings reports in the US Stock Indexes. If there are no major surprises, I would expect the same type of volatility we saw in the prior week.

Front month Gold Futures saw similar volatility last week on lighter volume. Until Fridays selloff, the futures did very little to entice traders to commit in either direction. The daily chart points out a small wedge pattern forming over the last two weeks, but the trend continues to be lower. The resistance trendline, identified by arrow #1 gave traders very nice technical prices to sell from, but until Friday the rewards were not all that exciting for those who took the risk.

I will be using the same trendline this week as an indicator for a short position until the chart suggest something otherwise. With all the focus being on the stock market indexes this week again, it will probably take a very big move lower in stocks to entice buying in the Gold Futures. I do  not see that happening this week, so I will likely continue to recommend short positions with stop orders to mitigate risk. Until the Gold Futures begin to show confident closes higher on a regular basis, we will continue to see selling pressure. It is said that typical bear market trends in Gold last over 100 weeks. If history repeats itself, the Gold has at least another two months of trending to go.

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Brian Booth
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