Gold Needs A Silver Bullet
Jeffrey Halley | Sep 25, 2017 05:46AM ET
Another weekend of potential headline-driven volatility is negotiated safely, putting precious metals under pressure to start the week.
Gold
Gold opened lower in early Asian trading, falling seven dollars from its New York close at 1297.00 to 1290.00 as weekend uncertainty passed without incident. Merkel’s win in the German federal elections and a quiet news weekend on the North Korean front, saw the US dollar opening stronger and gold’s weekend safe-haven premium eroded from Friday.
Gold has bounced slightly to trade at 1292.85 but is now well below its 1296.00 breakout level with a daily close below here implying a deeper correction is possible. Gold is now mid-range between its 38.2% Fibonacci at 1299.00 and its 50% Fibonacci at 1281.00, and for longer-term bulls, this region is where gold’s correction should base. A break of the later level would suggest that the bull run has come to an end for now.
Intra-day gold has support at 1288.00 with resistance at 1296.00 and 1301.00. The Asian session’s performance will now be dictated by whether most of the weekend risk hedges have already been unwound and geopolitical headlines.
Silver
Silver too is approaching the region between it’s 38.2 and 50.0 % Fibonacci retracements, where, if the bull market is to continue it should make a longer-term base. The technical picture though is somewhat more cloudy.
Silver broke its long-term support at 17.4550 last week and kept on falling. Furthermore, it has broken through its 200-day moving average at 17.1250 and seems poised to attack its 100-day moving average and initial support at 16.8900. A break of this level could imply a further drop to the 50.0% retracement at 16.5700.
The 200-day average at 17.1250 will offer resistance to any bounces before 17.4000 appears on the horizon.
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