Monday, July 9, 2012

Technical Analysis of Gold and Dollar Index

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 On the above weekly chart, Gold Stocks remain in an overall downtrend. As you can see on the chart, the GDX continues to have trouble at the resistance zone. Longer term support remains down at the 40 level with continued resistance at the neckline. With 7 touches on trendline, this remains a formidable resistance area.


































 The 3-year chart for gold reveals that it now has the capacity to make great gains rising off the Triple Bottom of the lows of last September, December and the low of recent weeks. If last week's summit had produced little like its predecessors, then gold would have crashed its lows and plunged, but the summit ended with a "sea change" as Angela Merkel of Germany finally realized that if Germany didn't concede it would go down with the ship. 
We can see that we now have an excellent risk/reward ratio for going long gold.

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The USD has been on fire for the last year. Unless something comes out of the ECB here soon to defend the EURO, our target on the USD remains 87-88. We expect a major top around that level. Should the dollar continue to rally, expect more pressure on commodities and gold to fall to lower levels. 

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