R.J. O’Brien’s Toth: $1,232 Key Short-Term Level For December Gold
Technically, the area around $1,232 an ounce is a key short-term level for Comex December gold, says Dave Toth, markets insights senior analyst with R.J. O’Brien. This was the low from Friday before the contract ran to a nearly six-week high of $1,255.60 on Tuesday. “Such a sub-$1,232 failure would, in fact, break this month’s uptrend from (the Oct. 6) $1,183.30 low and expose AT LEAST a correction of this rally,” Toth says in a research note. “And against the backdrop of a three-year downtrend and the prospect that October’s recovery is just a correction of the decline from July’s $1,346.80 high (on a continuation chart), a resumption of the secular bear to new lows below $1,183 is also on the table.” As of 9:48 a.m. EDT, December gold was down $9.70 to $1,235.80 an ounce and hit a low of $1,232.40.
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