Analysis of gold news: Spot gold hit a historical high of $3004.99/ounce on Friday (March 14), but then profit-taking transactions occurred, and the price of gold fell sharply from the high, falling to a low of $2978.22/ounce. Global markets collectively rose, stocks soared, and European stock markets also rose across the board. The news that the US government may avoid a shutdown and US President Trump's latest statement on the situation in Russia and Ukraine helped drive the stock market up, thereby stimulating risk appetite and negative gold trends. The decision of the US Federal Open Market Committee next week and the signal from Federal Reserve Chairman Powell will determine whether spot gold will remain above or below $3,000.
Gold technical analysis: For gold, we are definitely concerned about whether it will rise or fall next week. At present, gold will gain some breathing space in the short term. However, since the gold crisis is still in a bullish trend, this also leads to a short-term correction and consolidation trend of gold. After the big rise, it entered into a shock consolidation, which is also a common trend in this round of rising trend. Although the decline at the end of Friday was not very strong, the upward trend cannot be easily reversed by a single decline, and it requires greater strength and time.
From the current market, gold surged this week and directly broke through the 3,000 mark. It closed above the previous historical high of 2,956 on Friday. The gold price stood above the upper track of the weekly daily Bollinger band, which is needed to push gold higher. Gold will attract certain technical buying at the 3,000 mark. The weekly big positive closing line shows that the recent decline has been recovered, and the overall structure is absolutely strong; the overall structure of the daily line is needless to say that the bullish pattern is strong; in terms of 4 hours, after the high-rise and fall trend on Friday, the current price is running below the short-term 5-day moving average again, and driving the short-term 5-day moving average 2990 to turn downward, and the macd indicator has signs of a dead cross again, although it is beneficial to the shorts, but other periodic indicators remain in a long position, and the Bollinger band runs upward as a whole, so the 4-hour aspect may not rule out a small decline, but the overall rebound still has the momentum.
Based on the above, it is recommended to focus on longs at low levels and supplementary shorts at high levels next week. For the beginning of next week, first pay attention to the pressure level of the 3000 mark above, and you can try short-term shorting. If it pulls up strongly and breaks the historical high of 3004, then change your mind and go back below the 3000 mark to continue to do long orders to participate in the upward continuation. As for the support below, we should first pay attention to 2972. If it continues to go above, we should continue to look at the 2990-3000 area or higher. Secondly, we should focus on the support near 2960 and continue to participate in long positions. Taken together, in terms of short-term gold operation ideas next week, our professional and senior gold analyst team recommends mainly going long on callbacks, supplemented by shorting on rebounds. The short-term focus on the upper side is the resistance of 3005-3010, and the short-term focus on the lower side is the support of 2970-2965.