During these recent moves a channel up pattern was revealed. The pattern can be drawn by connecting the October 18, 19 and 20 low levels and setting the parallel line at the Tuesday's high levels.
Meanwhile, note that it was already revealed on Monday that the bullion's price is ignoring the support and resistance of the 55, 100 and 200-hour simple moving averages despite the SMAs impacting the price throughout history.
Economic Calendar Analysis
On Thursday, at 12:30 GMT the weekly US Unemployment Claims might cause a minor USD move.
At 13:45 GMT on Friday, the week's notable events will end with the publication of the US Manufacturing and Services PMIs.
Click on the link below to find out more about the data releases of this and other currency exchange rates.
XAU/USD short-term forecast
On Wednesday, in the near term future, the metal's price was expected to continue to surge in the borders of the channel up pattern. Potential resistance to the price could be provided by the 1,780.00, 1,785.00 and 1,790.00 levels. Above these levels, the pair is more likely going to encounter the resistance line of the channel pattern.
Meanwhile, a decline of the metal could find support in the 1,775.00 mark before reaching the lower trend line of the channel up pattern. In addition, note that the previously ignored 55 and 200-hour simple moving averages were located at the trend line near 1,770.00.
XAU/USD daily charts review
On the daily candle chart, the yellow metal's price has bounced off the resistance of the 100 and 200-day simple moving averages, which strengthened the resistance of the 1,800.00 mark.Daily Candle Chart
Traders are long
On Wednesday, the sentiment on the Swiss Foreign Exchange was 56% bullish, as 56% of open position volume was in long positions.
On Tuesday, the sentiment was 55% long.
Meanwhile, in the 1000-pip range around the metal's price pending trade orders were 52% to buy the precious metal.