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Silver Price Analysis: XAG/USD refreshes YTD lows below $20.60

  • Silver price prolongs its losses to four consecutive days after slumping below the 200-DMA.
  • Silver Price Analysis: A bearish continuation is likely, even though RSI is oversold; caution is warranted.

Silver price dropped to a fresh YTD low of $20.58 a troy ounce but has trimmed some of its losses. Even though the US Dollar (USD) remains soft and the US bond yields are down, the white metal is losing 0.14%. At the time of writing, the XAG/USD exchanges hands at $20.72.

From a daily chart perspective, the XAG/USD is downward biased. Furthermore, the 20-day Exponential Moving Average (EMA) is about to cross below the 200-day EMA, triggering a death cross and exacerbating a fall toward the next demand area, the November 3 daily low of $18.84. A breach of the latter would open the door for further downside, exposing crucial support zones. The critical support areas exposed would be October’s 14 low of $18.09, followed by September’s 28 at 17.97, ahead of last year’s low at $17.56.

Even though the path of least resistance is downwards, the Relative Strength Index (RSI) at oversold conditions could trigger consolidation before the bearish continuation.

As an alternate scenario, the XAG/USD first resistance would be the psychological $21.00 figure. Once reclaimed, bulls could drive prices towards the February 24 high at $21.39, followed by February 23 daily high at 21.67. Next, the 20/200-day EMAs intersection would be tested, around $21.90s.

XAG/USD Daily chart

XAG/USD Key technical levels

XAG/USD

Overview
Today last price20.67
Today Daily Change-0.09
Today Daily Change %-0.43
Today daily open20.76
 
Trends
Daily SMA2022.2
Daily SMA5023.14
Daily SMA10022.02
Daily SMA20021.01
 
Levels
Previous Daily High21.4
Previous Daily Low20.74
Previous Weekly High21.98
Previous Weekly Low20.74
Previous Monthly High24.55
Previous Monthly Low22.76
Daily Fibonacci 38.2%20.99
Daily Fibonacci 61.8%21.15
Daily Pivot Point S120.53
Daily Pivot Point S220.31
Daily Pivot Point S319.87
Daily Pivot Point R121.2
Daily Pivot Point R221.63
Daily Pivot Point R321.86

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Christian Borjon Valencia

Christian Borjon began his career as a retail trader in 2010, mainly focused on technical analysis and strategies around it. He started as a swing trader, as he used to work in another industry unrelated to the financial markets.

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