On Monday morning, the price for gold jumped to the 1,585.00 level.
It is likely that yellow metal could consolidate in the 1,580.00 area against the US Dollar within the following trading session.
Economic Calendar Analysis
This week, on Tuesday, minor spike in volatility could occur due to the US Durable Goods Orders Release at 13:30 GMT.
On Wednesday, the US Federal Funds Rate is scheduled to be published at 19:00 GMT. Note that the largest moves occurred during rate cuts. This time, no rate cut is expected.
On Thursday, the US Advance GDP publication at 13:30 GMT is set to occur.
Next week's event historical data tables have been published. Click on the link below to read the article.
On Friday, the XAU/USD exchange rate raised to the 1,575.00 level. During today's morning, the rate jumped to the 1,585.00 mark.
On the one hand, bulls could continue to prevail in the market within the following trading session. In this case the price for gold could exceed the 1,590.00 mark.
On the other hand, yellow metal could consolidate against the UD Dollar in the 1,580.00 area in the short term.
It is unlikely that bulls could prevail, and the exchange rate could drop below 1,558.35/1,565.58 range due to the support cluster formed by the 55-, 100– and 200-hour SMAs.
Hourly Chart
On the daily candle chart, the metal appears to be consolidating after the recent high levels.
Meanwhile, the pair has no technical support as low as the 55 and 100-day simple moving averages that are located near the 1,500.00 level. If the support levels of the hourly chart fail, eventually the price could reach for the daily SMAs.
Daily Chart
Traders are neutral on gold
On Monday, 52% of all open gold positions on the Swiss Foreign Exchange were long. The sentiment had been near neutral throughout the last week.
Meanwhile, in the 1000 base point range around the current metal's price the pending orders were bullish– 64% of orders were to buy and 36% to sell.