Silver Price Analysis: XAG/USD fall by more than 4%, breaking key support

XAG/USD suffers the worst daily decline in months.
Price hits the lowest level in five weeks, under pressure after losing key support levels.
Gold remains steady, US stocks rise.

Matías Salord FXStreet

Silver price is falling sharply on Monday, even as the US Dollar holds relatively steady and despite rising equity prices. XAG/USD recently hit a fresh one-month low at $22.73 before rebounding toward $23.00.

During the Asian session, silver hit a five-day high at $24.15 but It failed to hold above $24.00. After moving sideways during most of the European session, XAG/USD broke the $23.60 support area, and tumbled, also losing the $23.10/20 zone.

At some point of the day, silver was losing more than 5% before trimming some losses. The sharp decline takes place even as gold trades practically flat for the day and even as Wall Street rises. The Dow Jones is up by 0.80% and the S&P 500 gains 1.05%.

The technical outlook has deteriorated significantly for XAG/USD. The 20-day Simple Moving Average, today at $23.70 is starting to turn south. The next strong support emerges at $22.50.

A recovery back above $23.20 would alleviate the bearish pressure. A daily close well above $24.10 should open the doors to more gains over the medium term.

XAG/USD 4-hour chart

XAG/USD

Overview
Today last price	22.93
Today Daily Change	-1.01
Today Daily Change %	-4.22
Today daily open	23.94

Trends
Daily SMA20	23.8
Daily SMA50	22.98
Daily SMA100	21.23
Daily SMA200	21.04

Levels
Previous Daily High	24.08
Previous Daily Low	23.71
Previous Weekly High	24.51
Previous Weekly Low	23.17
Previous Monthly High	24.3
Previous Monthly Low	22.03
Daily Fibonacci 38.2%	23.94
Daily Fibonacci 61.8%	23.85
Daily Pivot Point S1	23.74
Daily Pivot Point S2	23.54
Daily Pivot Point S3	23.36
Daily Pivot Point R1	24.11
Daily Pivot Point R2	24.28
Daily Pivot Point R3	24.48

Author

Matías Salord

FXStreet

Matías started in financial markets in 2008, after graduating in Economics. He was trained in chart analysis and then became an educator. He also studied Journalism. He started writing analyses for specialized websites before joining FXStreet.

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