Gold

The weekly COT report: As of Tuesday 28th May: Large speculators increased net-long exposure to USD by just $0.48 billion to $31.3 billion ($35.7 billion against G10 currencies) Traders were net-short NZD futures at their most bearish level since December 2018 Net-short exposure on GBP was its most bearish since March, although we’ve seen a […]

We outlined a case as to why we thought gold’s corrective low is in and, despite a deeper than anticipated pullback, a longer-term bullish case above $1266.0 remains in-tact. We remain cautiously bullish above $1266 Gold has declined nearly 6% from the 2019 high to the 2019 low. Yet as this follows on from a […]

There’s a decent zone of support for gold around $1275-$1280 which has fended off any further downside. Although, with the zone consisting of structural lows from January and March, a 38.2% Fibonacci ratio and the 200-day eMA, it was never going to be an easy nut to crack initially. Bullish momentum has picked up from […]

Precious metals are popular financial instruments that can help investors mitigate some of the financial risks that arise in times of economic turbulence. If you’ve never invested in these commodities before and are unsure of where to start, simply keep on reading. Our fascination with precious metals can be traced many centuries back, when gold […]

Gold’s decline since its multi-month high has not gone unnoticed, yet there are indications that mean reversion could soon be on the horizon. Since August’s low, gold had gained increasingly bullish attention which saw it trade nicely within a tight bullish channel. That is, of course, until a bearish pinbar marked its high before rolling […]

Investors seeking safe haven assets and aggressive buying from Central Banks and ETF investors have been spurring the latest increase in gold prices across the globe. Gold prices have been rising over the past couple of months, driven by the sharp stock market selloff and the growing trust and interest of buyers in the gold […]

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GOLD (XAUUSD) Dominant Bias: Bearish Gold is a bear market. In August price dipped by over 6000 pips, reaching around the support level of 1160.00 (a support level). From there, price moved upwards by 5000 pips and then moved sideways till the end of the month. All this happened in the context of a downtrend; […]

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