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Gold Forecast: Hesitation Suggests Market May Have Peaked

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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  • I review gold’s recent reversal and question whether the market has peaked.
  • Despite strong past momentum, fading rallies and heavy volume at the highs suggest exhaustion, with deeper corrections possible if support levels fail.

The gold market initially did rally a bit during the trading session on Tuesday, but has given back those gains to actually turn negative toward the end of the day. Because of this, it looks a lot like a market that is going to roll over, and I have to ask questions at this point as to whether or not we haven’t peaked. After all, you can see that there was a lot of volume at the top a couple of weeks ago, and this suggests to me that perhaps we have a problem where traders typically will get a little bit parabolic. Things will collapse one day, they’ll make another run higher, but they will fail. I’m watching the $4,200 level because if we do not make it above there, I think gold may have peaked.

Gold Forecast 12/11: Market May Have Peaked (graph)

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I know that goes against the narrative, but it was weird because just a couple of weeks ago, I was told gold was going to like $8,000 or something, and the US dollar was going to zero, and then gold dropped 10 to 12%, and suddenly there was nothing. So, I think at this point in time, it’ll be interesting to see how this plays out, but I am starting to really look at this through the prism of perhaps an exhausted market and a trend change.

A breakdown below the 50-day EMA opens up the possibility of a deeper correction to the $3,800 level and then eventually the $3,500 level. The 200-day EMA sits just below there, and anything below that level really gets ugly. At this point, you could look at this as a buy-on-the-dip market, but you have to be very quick to bail out if the position goes against you.

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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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