Gold Price Forecast: XAU/USD juggles around $1,960 after a rally inspired by US Dollar’s correction

Gold price is consolidating around $1,960.00 after a vertical rally ahead of US Employment.
The USD Index witnessed intense selling pressure after printing a fresh 10-week high at 104.50.
Gold price is gathering strength for a breakout above the trendline plotted from $1,952.00.

Sagar Dua FXStreet

Gold price (XAU/USD) has turned sideways around $1,960.00 after failing to extend a rally above $1,963.70 in the early Asian session. A quick rally in the Gold price came after a vertical sell-off in the US Dollar Index (DXY). The USD Index witnessed intense selling pressure after printing a fresh 10-week high at 104.50.

S&P500 ended flat on Tuesday despite after an extended weekend, portraying a cautious market mood. Sheer volatility in the US equities cannot be ruled out ahead of the United States Employment data, which will build a base for June‘s monetary policy meeting by the Federal Reserve (Fed).

Despite a sell-off in the USD Index, investors are confident that the asset could be rerated ahead as one more interest rate hike by the Fed is yet to be discounted. Consumer spending has rebounded dramatically in April and now decent caliber in labor market conditions could force Fed chair Jerome Powell to look for raising interest rates further without any doubt.

On Thursday, US Automatic Data Processing (ADP) Employment data will be keenly watched. As per the consensus, the US economy added 170K jobs in May, lower than the prior addition of 296K. Later on Friday, US Nonfarm Payrolls (NFP) will release, which will provide comprehensive information about the US labor market.

Gold technical analysis

Gold price showed a V-shape recovery after dropping to near $1,932.12 on an hourly scale. The asset is gathering strength for a breakout above the trendline plotted from May 18 low around $1,952.00, which acted as a resistance for the Gold price earlier. Meanwhile, the horizontal resistance is plotted from May 19 high at $1,984.25.

Upward sloping 20-period Exponential Moving Average (EMA) at $1,954.50 indicates that the short-term trend has turned positive.

The Relative Strength Index (RSI) (14) has shifted into the bullish range of 60.00-80.00, which indicates that the upside momentum is active.

Gold hourly chart

XAU/USD

Overview
Today last price	1959.28
Today Daily Change	15.48
Today Daily Change %	0.80
Today daily open	1943.8

Trends
Daily SMA20	1994.66
Daily SMA50	1992.1
Daily SMA100	1935.86
Daily SMA200	1831.41

Levels
Previous Daily High	1949.82
Previous Daily Low	1940.36
Previous Weekly High	1985.3
Previous Weekly Low	1936.77
Previous Monthly High	2048.75
Previous Monthly Low	1949.83
Daily Fibonacci 38.2%	1943.97
Daily Fibonacci 61.8%	1946.21
Daily Pivot Point S1	1939.5
Daily Pivot Point S2	1935.2
Daily Pivot Point S3	1930.04
Daily Pivot Point R1	1948.96
Daily Pivot Point R2	1954.12
Daily Pivot Point R3	1958.42

Author

Sagar Dua

FXStreet

Sagar Dua is associated with the financial markets from his college days. Along with pursuing post-graduation in Commerce in 2014, he started his markets training with chart analysis.

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