Monday, 1 May 2017

The Glowing Dawn Went Down

In the middle of April Gold run above the $1295 level due to the fact that the post-March rate hike rally extended further. But since then the price started to move to downwards along with the upcoming FOMC rate decision on Wednesday. The relevance of Fed’s rate hike is quite meaningful, considering that during the the past six months we witnessed the two rate hikes which fuelled markets and set the bullish tone in the wake of the policy’s tightening.
Today XAU/USD came under huge selling pressure and fell to lowest level since mid-April at $1254 and the current market price is $1255. 
The four-hour time frame is showing that price has moved below the 38.2% Fibonacci retracement of latest March to April upleg at $1257, which was acting as a strong support line. Technical indicators are located within extreme overbought territory. RSI has lost directional strength, while stochastic is displaying strong bearish momentum. 
Major resistance is seen at $1271 (23.6% of above mentioned Fibonacci retracement), which is a very important level to consider, as being former support and April 26th’s  high. A decisive break below $1249 would drag Gold price towards  $1239 (March 5th’s low).  



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