Silver Price Analysis: XAG/USD tumbles over 5% as Silver whipsaws for Friday

XAG/USD fell $1.28 during the US trading session, backsliding into $22.30.
Bulls failed to establish a floor in XAG/USD prices and Silver slumped to a new weekly low.
Broad-market reversal in risk appetite sending Silver into the floorboards.

Joshua Gibson FXStreet

Silver prices have tumbled from a late-week peak for Friday's trading, skidding into $22.30 after falling over 5.5% over the course of the US trading session.

The XAG/USD is back into familiar lows that Silver has cycled into for most of the year, driven by a resurgence in US Dollar (USD) bidding as global markets routinely pivot on fears of an impending economic slowdown that could roll over into a full-blown 'hard landing' if left unchecked.

Silver prices have consistently waffled on the top end ever since slipping from 2023's early peak above $26.00, a high set back in May.

Friday's sharp reversal only serves to highlight the XAG/USD's large exposure to broader market sentiment, tracking closely with US Dollar flows.

XAG/USD technical outlook

Silver is trading back into a familiar bottom just above the $22.00 major psychological level. A descending pattern of lower highs in XAG/USD is capping off long-term bullish potential, and a descending trendline is marked in from May's peak just north of $26.00.

Despite Friday's bomb-drop into the floor, the XAG/USD could potentially be set for another bullish turn around the cyclical pattern if Silver bidders can amass enough to arrest the current slide.

On the down side, if risk-off price pressure maintain through the weekend and into next week, Silver could see itself dropping further below $23.00 and set up a bearish push into $22.00 and beyond into six-month lows.

XAG/USD daily chart

XAG/USD technical levels

XAG/USD

Overview
Today last price	22.32
Today Daily Change	-0.30
Today Daily Change %	-1.33
Today daily open	22.62

Trends
Daily SMA20	23.17
Daily SMA50	23.49
Daily SMA100	23.53
Daily SMA200	23.46

Levels
Previous Daily High	22.74
Previous Daily Low	22.4
Previous Weekly High	23.78
Previous Weekly Low	22.81
Previous Monthly High	25.02
Previous Monthly Low	22.23
Daily Fibonacci 38.2%	22.61
Daily Fibonacci 61.8%	22.53
Daily Pivot Point S1	22.43
Daily Pivot Point S2	22.25
Daily Pivot Point S3	22.1
Daily Pivot Point R1	22.77
Daily Pivot Point R2	22.92
Daily Pivot Point R3	23.11

Author

Joshua Gibson

FXStreet

Joshua joins the FXStreet team as an Economics and Finance double major from Vancouver Island University with twelve years' experience as an independent trader focusing on technical analysis.

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