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Gold Price Analysis: XAU/USD trades below the 200-day SMA

  • Gold sellers look to establish a foothold below the 200-day SMA. 
  • That may invite stronger selling pressure, leading to a deeper decline toward November lows.

Gold is currently trading below the 200-day Simple Moving Average (SMA) at $1,848, having closed below the long-term technical line on Wednesday. 

It remains to be seen if the latest break below the widely-tracked average is sustained. The SMA was breached in late November and couple of times earlier this month. However, sellers failed to establish a foothold under the average support then. 

Should sellers succeed this time, more bears may join the market, yielding a deeper decline. Major support is seen at $1,764 (November low). 

A close above the lower high of $1,875 created on Jan. 21 would confirm a reversal higher and expose resistance at $1,959 (Jan. 6 high). 

Daily chart

Trend: Bearish

Technical levels

XAU/USD

Overview
Today last price1837.04
Today Daily Change-3.76
Today Daily Change %-0.20
Today daily open1840.8
 
Trends
Daily SMA201870.71
Daily SMA501857.49
Daily SMA1001880.14
Daily SMA2001849.97
 
Levels
Previous Daily High1853.2
Previous Daily Low1831.36
Previous Weekly High1875.2
Previous Weekly Low1802.8
Previous Monthly High1906.87
Previous Monthly Low1775.52
Daily Fibonacci 38.2%1839.7
Daily Fibonacci 61.8%1844.86
Daily Pivot Point S11830.37
Daily Pivot Point S21819.95
Daily Pivot Point S31808.53
Daily Pivot Point R11852.21
Daily Pivot Point R21863.63
Daily Pivot Point R31874.05

Author

Omkar Godbole

Omkar Godbole

FXStreet Contributor

Omkar Godbole, editor and analyst, joined FXStreet after four years as a research analyst at several Indian brokerage companies.

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