I’ve discussed the gold (XAUUSD) bullish scenario for months.
I first wrote about it on this blog on October 19th.
And since September, I’ve said that XAUUSD may need to revisit the $1,790 area before moving higher.
It’s a level that was critical for gold between 2011 and 2012.
If you saw my November 28th forex forecast, you know about the support area between $1,700 and $1,790.
Those were the locations of two descending channels we had on our radar.
XAUUSD caught a bid at the higher level and bounced from $1,760 on November 30th and never looked back.
As you can tell, today’s breakout above $1,900 has been in the works for a long time.
Now, you may be wondering about today’s gap up.
I often talk about the need for gaps to close before a market can move higher or lower.
However, no two gaps are the same.
In the case of XAUUSD, Monday’s gap is what’s called a breakaway gap.
It’s a gap that occurs as a market breaks free from a range or congestion area.
That certainly applies to gold, given that this gap up occurred following five months of consolidation.
The gap higher is also with the trend.
That’s a significant factor when trading any breakaway gap.
As for entries, the best ones were below $1,900.
We knew about the $1,760 support area, as well as $1,850, which flipped to support a few weeks ago.
That said, XAUUSD probably needs to clear the $1,930 area on a daily and weekly closing basis to re-expose $2,000.
Notice how $1,930 has been key since last August.
But everything below $2,075 is just the warm-up, in my opinion.
The real story here is how a close above $1,900 would confirm the bull flag pattern and open the door to the objective at $2,380.
I first mentioned that target on December 7th.
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HELLO SIR IF I MAY ASK ARE WE LIKELY TO FILL THAT GAP OR?, I AM SKEPTICAL ON CHASING THE YELLOW METAL AS I HAVE NOOPEN POSITION?
If it’s a breakaway gap, it won’t fill.
ok.. thanks
Thank you Justin
You’re welcome.
Wonderful, always great having your insight.
Cheers, Henry.
I THINK GOLD WILL FILL THE GAP… Am i rate?
Your analysis is always on the spot….you are a true forex gem.
Thanks a lot!
best regards
Thank you. Happy to help. 🙂
I went long gold and silver at the start of trading!! Now I wait (-:
Are you still holding your long position? the gold is now below 1900..
thanks for the update sir.
thanks you so much
Great as usual
is the bull flag pattern confirmed? it just broke the 1900 support and seem to be downtrend now…
Gold buy or sell??