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Gold technical analysis: Remains vulnerable near 3-month lows

  • The precious metal adds to its recent losses and drops to fresh three month lows.
  • Slightly oversold conditions held investors from placing any aggressive bearish bets.

Gold remained depressed through the mid-European session on Tuesday and is currently placed near three-month lows, just above $1450 level. The mentioned region marks 38.2% Fibonacci level of the $1265-$1557 bullish move and should now act as a key pivotal point for short-term traders.
 
Given the recent break below a one-month-old trading range support, which coincided with 100-day SMA, the near-term set-up remains tilted in favour of bearish traders. However, slightly oversold conditions on the 4-hourly charts helped limit any deeper losses, at least for the time being.
 
Meanwhile, oscillators on the daily chart maintained their bearish bias and are still far from being in the oversold territory, supporting prospects for a further near-term depreciating move. Hence, any attempted recovery might still be seen as an opportunity to initiate fresh bearish positions.
 
Sustained weakness below a previous resistance, now turned support near the $1450 region seems to accelerate the fall further towards $1425 intermediate support before the commodity eventually slides to test 50% Fibo. level support near the $1412 area.
 
On the flip side, attempted recovery moves might now confront some fresh supply near the $1465-67 area and any subsequent strength is likely to remain capped near the confluence support breakpoint near the $1475 region.

Gold daily chart

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XAU/USD

Overview
Today last price1453.3
Today Daily Change-1.84
Today Daily Change %-0.13
Today daily open1455.14
 
Trends
Daily SMA201489.76
Daily SMA501498.04
Daily SMA1001477.2
Daily SMA2001391.16
 
Levels
Previous Daily High1466.5
Previous Daily Low1448.3
Previous Weekly High1514.85
Previous Weekly Low1456.43
Previous Monthly High1519.04
Previous Monthly Low1455.5
Daily Fibonacci 38.2%1455.25
Daily Fibonacci 61.8%1459.55
Daily Pivot Point S11446.79
Daily Pivot Point S21438.45
Daily Pivot Point S31428.59
Daily Pivot Point R11464.99
Daily Pivot Point R21474.85
Daily Pivot Point R31483.19

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Haresh Menghani

Haresh Menghani is a detail-oriented professional with 10+ years of extensive experience in analysing the global financial markets.

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