XAUWCU trade ideas
Gold Already Moving to the All-Time-High - XAUWCU leading XAUUSDAfter discovering the World Currency Unit (WCU), essentially a basket of GDP-weighted currencies, and looking into how it was calculated, I realized it would likely serve as a better indicator of the Real Value of Gold & Silver.
I've been following this exact chart for a while now; Very interesting how well it's lining up with fib levels, as you can see. I've noticed that almost every unexpected Bull/Bear move that has had no obvious cause (due to news, or technicals on XAUUSD) did have an obvious technical cause on XAUWCU.
For example, when considering when Gold broke out of the long term downward trend from the 2011 top:
XAUUSD : Jan. 25, 2019
XAUWCU : Dec. 17, 2018
Additionally, when considering when Gold broke out of the long term horizontal resistance dating back to 2013:
XAUUSD : June 18, 2019
XAUWCU : as early as June 7, 2018 and backtesting while it waited for XAUUSD to break out.
Gold: correction aheadAfter my last weeks target has been reached, I am waiting if we get a breakout. With GDX/HUI not following Gold and DXY rather going upwards, I expect Gold (in XCU) correcting back to the Neckline of the double top. With this correction a Head and Shoulders Formation of XAUUSD will also be finished.
Gold: postponed correction but not yet cancelledLast Fridays Payroll data were "some bit" of surprising. But any 5 sigma deviation should be.... The probability of a rate hike in June was discussed to be back to 0% so DXY was tumbling "a bit", JY strengthening, Gold rising and GDX/HUI exploding to the upside. Well, is this reasonable ? With Fib-TZ analysis last movement was anticipated, but in the different direction. With a reduction of 30% (net short %) of JY and COT Index rising this movement is some bit of surprising. I will certainly change my mind if we get above my max. Target, but till then I have the impression that someone want's to shake-out the bears....
Gold: Failed again. Short more reasonable than longGold against a currency Basket is trading since Feb/Mar within my suggested trading range (see chart attached). Following Points make me bearisch again:
1) Failed BreakOut out of LT Resistance and upward channel
2) We see lower Highs
3) COT Positioning extreme
Within last years it was always a good decision sell within the "Sell Region" (red) and buy in the "Buy Region" (green). Till we see a BreakOut (above 885-890) we have NO reason to believe in a new BullMarket. A correction back into the 780-800 Region seems to be more and more likely. With extreme COT Positioning even a "cascade selling" till the lower boundary may be possible but with the strong physical demand unlikely.
Dangerzone ahead: Short GoldSorry to disturb the bulish feeling, but it is alwasy reasonable to check Gold against a currency basket and not just US$. We are now in timerange and pricerange as I suggested last autumn. We had a high volume surge we haven't seen since 2011 and the bullish feeling people have is certainly justified! BUT as a perma Gold bull I also learned to be realistic. We are currently at the upper Resistance of our tradigrange and RSI, Stochastics and Choppiness look terrifying! Each time we had similar data, we had a correction! So expect another one these days!