How to Define Gold's Trend?Gold (June) / Silver (July)
Gold, last week’s close: Settled at 2308.6, down 1.0 on Friday and 38.6 on the week
Silver, last week’s close: Settled at 26.69, down 0.139 on Friday and 0.845 on the week
Gold and Silver futures turned higher upon China’s open last night at 8:00 pm CT. It is important to remember China was on holiday late last week, which means a lack of response to the U.S. news, including the strength in the Japanese Yen due to the BoJ’s intervention. Overall, we were very surprised by the lack of response in precious metals to the softer-than-expected Nonfarm Payrolls report and weak ISM Services data. One may point to ISM Services Prices surging as a headwind, but we view Prices as a lag to the index.
Technically, we must see Gold chew through Wednesday’s Fed high, major three-star resistance at 2338-2339.5, and hold out above here in order to move towards beginning to neutralize the damage from the rollover early last week. Silver has cleared that Fed high and pinged settlement from last Monday, just prior to its rollover last week, at 27.66 this morning. It will be imperative for the bulls to continue to bid this rally attempt and set the tone for the week ahead. More broadly, Gold’s daily chart can be considered constructive and building out a bull flag from its mid-April peak, the coming days will be critical in continuing to form such a pattern.
Bias: Bullish/Neutral
Resistance: 2338-2339.5***, 2347.7***, 2353-2358.9***, 2364.4-2367***
Pivot: 2330.7
Support: 2322.9-2325.3***, 2312.7-2314.5**, 2300.6-2305.8**, 2291.5-2296.2**, 2281.8-2285.2***, 2257.1***, 2246.6***, 2231.2-2238.2****
Silver (July)
Resistance: 27.66-27.76***, 27.91-27.93**, 28.02-28.22***
Pivot: 27.44
Support: 27.15-27.28***, 27.01**, 26.89-26.91**, 26.65-26.69***, 26.17-26.30****, 25.89-25.95**, 25.32-25.47***
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