Rajandran R Telecom Engineer turned Full-time Derivative Trader. Mostly Trading Nifty, Banknifty, USDINR and High Liquid Stock Derivatives. Trading the Markets Since 2006 onwards. Using Market Profile and Orderflow for more than a decade. Designed and published 100+ open source trading systems on various trading tools. Strongly believe that market understanding and robust trading frameworks are the key to the trading success. Writing about Markets, Trading System Design, Market Sentiment, Trading Softwares & Trading Nuances since 2007 onwards. Author of Marketcalls.in)

Gold Trading above Multi-Year High and Psychological 1500 USD/Ounce

1 min read

In the midst of ongoing trade war tensions gold, this week had captured the psychological mark 1500 USD and trading around the overhead resistance zone 1520-1525 levels. Gold rallied and broken the 2014 year high from bottoming at $1,045 in December of 2015

COMEX Gold Weekly Charts

The latest Commitment of Traders (COT) report showed Commercials category of traders ( representing gold miners, jewelers, and other large producers/merchants ) are maintaining a record net short positions and contrary to that large speculators ramped up their long positions since June 2019 onwards

COMEX Gold – COT Data
Commitment of Traders Report
The Commitments of Traders (COT) reports can sometimes give traders a good idea of future significant moves in the market. The CFTC requires large speculators and commercial traders, or hedgers, to report their net positions twice each month.

Gold on the daily timeframe made its vertical spike post-Chinese yuan devaluation. ADX levels are still on the upswing mode in both daily and weekly is still ramping up since May 2019.

Comex Gold – Daily Charts

In India, domestic prices soared to a record, dampening demand for the metal in the world’s second-biggest gold consumer after China. The surge in USDINR and Gold in the International markets are adding double whammy to the Gold Investors in India.

MCX Gold Futures tested high of 38400 post yuan devaluation. That’s a whooping move from 35000 per 10 gram to 38400 levels since the start of August 2019.

Gold Hourly – MCX Futures

In short term Gold hits the overhead resistance levels 1525 levels and could be trading around psychological levels establishing a newer consolidation zone and whipsawing around the psychological levels for quite some time.

Momentum in Gold is still at the extreme levels with volatility shooting up. Sharp volatile swings are possible as emotions are running high.

Rajandran R Telecom Engineer turned Full-time Derivative Trader. Mostly Trading Nifty, Banknifty, USDINR and High Liquid Stock Derivatives. Trading the Markets Since 2006 onwards. Using Market Profile and Orderflow for more than a decade. Designed and published 100+ open source trading systems on various trading tools. Strongly believe that market understanding and robust trading frameworks are the key to the trading success. Writing about Markets, Trading System Design, Market Sentiment, Trading Softwares & Trading Nuances since 2007 onwards. Author of Marketcalls.in)

Gold Technical Analysis – Bullish View

Gold is a one trading instrument where fundamentals are outlawed while inflation is skyrocketing and globally Central banks are racing for the interest rate...
Rajandran R
20 sec read

Gold to Hit All-Time High? How Small Investors can…

I know, in this Bitcoin era if someone is talking about Gold they could be either a 70s kid or an 80s kid. Well,...
Rajandran R
1 min read

Silver Momentum Pullback Trade Setup

After a significant momentum in Silver 11.77 to 29.85 silver started correcting in the month of Sep 2020 towards 21.66. Last week silver plunged...
Rajandran R
22 sec read

Leave a Reply

Get Notifications, Alerts on Market Updates, Trading Tools, Automation & More