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Gold Forecast: Markets Continue to Climb a Wall of Worry

By Christopher Lewis
Senior Technical Analyst

Christopher Lewis is a technical analyst and market commentator at DailyForex with more than two decades of trading experience in Forex and other leveraged markets. Based in Columbus, Ohio, he specializes in chart-based analysis of major currency pairs, stock indices, commodities, and energy markets, focusing on clear support and resistance levels, trend structure, and risk management. Christopher produces daily written and video analysis for tra...

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If the Federal Reserve remains very hawkish and Jerome Powell goes into the press conference and warns everybody that he’s going to do everything he can to slow the economy down, it may have the effect of not only driving the dollar higher, but we may see gold be used as wealth preservation even more so.

Gold markets are behaving very much like stock markets, in the sense that they are simply grinding higher, and are not giving much in the way of an entry possibility for those of us who did not jump on it right away. That there’s a candlestick does look a little uglier than the previous several, so we may be during a pullback.

This pullback should end up being a nice buying opportunity, and I have quite a bit of interest near the $1900 level, right along with the $1880 level. The $1880 level is an area that’s been important a couple of times as far as both support and resistance, and therefore I think you got a situation where you have to look at this through the prism of finding value because quite frankly the gold markets have been on fire. Furthermore, I think a lot of this comes down to wealth preservation, and of course, the fact that interest rates have dropped a bit.

Waiting for the Federal Reserve

  • That being said, the middle of next week features the Federal Reserve interest rate decision and the statement afterward, so we will have to pay special attention to both.
  • If the Federal Reserve remains very hawkish and Jerome Powell goes into the press conference and warns everybody that he’s going to do everything he can to slow the economy down, it may have the effect of not only driving the dollar higher, but we may see gold be used as wealth preservation even more so.

That being said, if that situation does arise, it’s very likely that we could see a little bit of a pullback initially, which I plan on jumping all over. We would need to see the US dollar take off like a rocket to really bring down gold, and I think it’s probably only a matter of time before we get to the $2000 level anyway. That’s an area that was important multiple times in the past and was where we started selling off last year. Because of this, I think there’s a lot of trouble just waiting in that area, but I certainly will be paying close attention to see if we can get above it. If we do break above that, gold will really shine at that point.

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Senior Technical Analyst
Christopher Lewis is a technical analyst and market commentator at DailyForex with more than two decades of trading experience in Forex and other leveraged markets. Based in Columbus, Ohio, he specializes in chart-based analysis of major currency pairs, stock indices, commodities, and energy markets, focusing on clear support and resistance levels, trend structure, and risk management. Christopher produces daily written and video analysis for traders who rely on technical setups to navigate volatile market conditions

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