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Silver Price Analysis: XAG/USD plummets to a two-month low, below the 200-day EMA

  • XAG/USD sinks below key $22.96, the 200-day EMA level.
  • Bearish RSI and RoC indicate a strong sell-off, warranting further XAG/USD downside.
  • XAG/USD upside resistance was found at a $23.00 handle, followed by a challenge of the 100-day EMA.

Silver price pierces below the 200-day Exponential Moving Average (EMA) of $22.96 as sellers pile in, dragging prices towards a new two-month low of $22.50, as high US Treasury bond yields pressure the precious metals segment. At the time of writing, XAG/USD trades at $22.75, while Gold (XAU/USD) spot exchanges hands at $1931.02, down 1.64% and 0.23%, respectively.

Risk-off sentiment is weighing on the precious metals segment. Investors remain uncertain as the Fed Chair Jerome Powell commences his two-day testimony at the US Congress, which you can follow here. The US 10-year Treasury note yields 3.775% and gains 4.6 bps, while US real yields, directly influencing XAG/USD’s prices, climb five bps to 1.555%.

XAG/USD Price Analysis: Technical outlook

The XAG/USD remains neutral to downward biased, though it could shift to the downside if XAG/USD prints a daily close below the May 25 swing low of $22.68. That would mean the Silver price breaking the 200-day Exponential Moving Average (EMA) threshold and, from a technical perspective, turning XAG/USD bearish.

Further cementing XAG/USD bearish case is the Relative Strength Index (RSI) indicator at negative territory, while the three-day Rate of Change (RoC) continues to plunge as sellers gain momentum.

That said, in that outcome, XAG/USD could dive towards the March 21 daily low at $22.14 before challenging the $22.00 figure. A breach of the latter will expose the March 16 low at $21.47, followed by the $21.00 mark.

Conversely, if XAG/USD reclaims the 200-day EMA, that could expose the $23.00 handle on the upside, followed by the 100-day EMA at $23.52.

XAG/USD Price Action – Daily chart

XAG/USD Daily chart

XAG/USD

Overview
Today last price22.73
Today Daily Change-0.45
Today Daily Change %-1.94
Today daily open23.18
 
Trends
Daily SMA2023.63
Daily SMA5024.37
Daily SMA10023.36
Daily SMA20022.44
 
Levels
Previous Daily High24.03
Previous Daily Low23.06
Previous Weekly High24.4
Previous Weekly Low23.22
Previous Monthly High26.14
Previous Monthly Low22.68
Daily Fibonacci 38.2%23.43
Daily Fibonacci 61.8%23.66
Daily Pivot Point S122.81
Daily Pivot Point S222.45
Daily Pivot Point S321.84
Daily Pivot Point R123.78
Daily Pivot Point R224.39
Daily Pivot Point R324.75

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Christian Borjon Valencia

Markets analyst, news editor, and trading instructor with over 14 years of experience across FX, commodities, US equity indices, and global macro markets.

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