Analysis of gold news: On Friday (February 14), gold prices fell sharply due to profit-taking, but are still expected to rise for the seventh consecutive week. Spot gold fell 1.53% to $2,882.23 per ounce, but the cumulative increase this week is still nearly 0.8%. On Tuesday, gold prices hit a record high of $2,942.70 per ounce. The sharp decline in U.S. retail sales in January put pressure on the dollar, but gold prices plummeted by about 1.5% on Friday and fell below $2,900 per ounce as traders took profits before the weekend. Data released on Friday showed that U.S. retail sales in January contracted by 0.9% month-on-month, far worse than the expected -0.1%. Gold prices fell sharply despite falling U.S. bond yields. The U.S. 10-year Treasury yield fell 5 basis points to 4.48%. U.S. real yields, which are inversely correlated with gold prices, fell 4 basis points to 2.041%. Despite a sharp correction on Friday, gold prices still rose for the seventh consecutive week this week, mainly because U.S. President Trump promoted the "reciprocal tariff" policy, which triggered market concerns about the global trade war and further promoted safe-haven buying.
Technical analysis of gold: The gold market experienced a significant decline on Friday night, and the technical form showed a double top structure, which is usually regarded as a reversal signal, indicating that the market may enter a period of adjustment. From the perspective of technical indicators, the MACD indicator currently forms a dead cross at a high level, and the momentum column gradually shrinks, indicating that the market's upward momentum is weakening and the risk of decline is accumulating. At the same time, MA5 (5-day moving average) has crossed MA10 (10-day moving average), forming a dead cross signal of the short-term moving average, further confirming the market's adjustment needs. These technical signals all point to the possibility that gold may continue to pull back in the short term.
The 4-hour chart of gold rebounded yesterday at the 2940 line and then closed lower under pressure, pulling the moving average indicator to turn around, and the 4-hour chart rose slowly and fell quickly. The rise is a continuous rise of small broken Yang lines, and the big fall is a big Yin line with a small Yang line rebound correction and then a big Yin line down. The rise for five days and the fall for one day have lost nearly half of the rising space. At the same time, the 4-hour chart lost the middle track and weakened. The pressure of the middle track of the Bollinger Bands has also begun to move down to the 2900 line, and the hourly chart is flat. The short-term idea is still to fluctuate and fall, but the rhythm is slightly slower. Friday's scary data was bullish for gold prices. Gold rose slightly to 2933 and then fell all the way. The main reason was the weekend closing, which was caused by profit-making selling of long orders at high levels. It once fell below 2900 and gave a low of 2877 during the session, and finally closed at 2882.
After this high-level diving trend, the trend for next week is already clear. After the long sell-off, we can still find support positions at low levels to arrange long orders next week. From the hourly chart, gold price hit a new high of 2942 this week, and after the pullback at the end of last week, it has gone through two waves of pullbacks. 2865 below is a support reference, so you can open a long position above this position next Monday to look bullish; as for the suppression above, you can pay attention to the four-hour Bollinger band middle track 2908 and the starting and falling point 2930 at the end of the week. Taken together, in terms of short-term operation ideas for gold next week, our professional and senior gold analyst team recommends mainly shorting on rebounds, supplemented by longing on lows. The upper short-term focus will be on the 2903-2908 first-line resistance, and the lower short-term will focus on the 2865-2860 first-line support.
Gold operation strategy:
1. When gold rebounds, go short at the 2903-2908 line, stop loss at 2915, and target the 2880 line; continue to hold if the position is broken! Look down to 2860