After big FOMC and ECB announcements global finance situation is more clear. Doubts and fears in global economy are addressed and big institutions stated what they see and how will try to act. One of the longest up trends on global markets might be still continued even if at a slower pace, many worrying circumstances are recognized, things are being planned so maybe overall future is more clear now - less doubts so maybe Gold found it as a more safe place and capital is retracing back to other more risky spheres. Also please notice how last trigger of massive down trend on gold started exactly on a day when Trump was elected, we might see same situation due to resolved (for now) risks around North Korea and potential military conflicts in region with China involved. Trade wars are far less worrying part of current history.
2,5 year long bull run with one big 'reset' on the way triggered by big global event - controversial presidential election result in USA. On this period we had higher bottom which triggered another bull run ended by ascending triangle (on two levels) which probably ended with last big events. Global risks are cleared, variables are reduced - markets react in cooling way as seen on gold. I personally thought that we will brake out up over 1310 and 1360 with road opened to new all time highs. In result with things more sorted Gold market is cooling down. How far will it retrace?
I tried to find analogy between last two big runs with still including current up trend but maybe again switched to slower pace - global risks were explained and addressed, not solved yet so reall issues will come back. Until then we could experience way bigger moves down than we expected on price movements from last 1,5 year (since 2017).
All hopes for a big spike up are switched to finding new low and maybe saving our 2,5 year long up trend - that is why closest supports is at first on 1241 USD but we should expect forming another fresh start in this bigger trend so it probably will be ignited at a slower pace so lower than extension of last bottoms would suggest. That is why we cold look for them at 1215 and 1177. Breaking below would open huge way to bottoms not seen since years like 1125-1130 and in my opinion at this point we would not stop there. All options will be opened, first stop could be around real mining costs of Gold but as we can experience from that big and long bear runs - this should lead us for a long time a bit under just to squeeze market extremely.
These last scenarios are extreme and far less probable than setting new low between 1177-1241 (Fibonacci retracement levels) and starting new - third - wave of trend which we see in last 2.5 years. RSI below 30 points suggests it based on last experience when it occurred. Personally I gave up my long positions in favor of short and now this is my official position on this market. With still up trend in longterm I'll watch carefully supports listed above. Fall already is very rapid, can last long, based on last RSI behavior it should be in sub 30 levels for around month.
Please tell me what are your thoughts and perspective, would be happy for likes to reach wider group opened for a discussion. I'll update this chart with bigger perspective, local events and future decisive moments.