Gold (XAU/USD) – newest sentiment evaluation

• The U.S. rate of interest reduce was absolutely mirrored on September 18.
• Gold’s multi-month vary is now in peril.

Gold costs proceed to maneuver increased and are anticipated to check the Might 20 all-time excessive of $2,450 per ounce. Renewed market hypothesis that the Federal Reserve will reduce rates of interest by 25 foundation factors in mid-September has helped drive the newest development. Monetary markets have now priced in a complete of 65 foundation factors of rate of interest cuts in the USA this yr, with the third charge reduce being 50/50.

Utilizing information from Reuters Eikon

The each day chart reveals gold costs close to the highest of their current multi-month vary, with assist from the 20-day and 50-day easy shifting averages. The CCI indicator reveals that gold is overbought, so a short consolidation is probably going earlier than a brand new excessive is reached.

Gold each day value chart

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Retail dealer information reveals that 49.86% of merchants are internet lengthy, with the ratio of shorts to longs being 1.01:1. The variety of internet longs is 1.69% decrease than yesterday and 12.94% decrease than final week, whereas the variety of internet longs is 1.69% decrease than yesterday and 12.94% decrease than final week.

We sometimes take a contrarian view on crowd sentiment, and the truth that merchants are internet quick suggests gold costs might proceed to rise. Merchants are additional net-short than yesterday and final week, and the mixture of present sentiment and up to date adjustments has given us a stronger bullish contrarian commerce bias on gold.

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