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Gold Forecast: Gold Jumps to Test $5,000 on Tuesday

By Christopher Lewis
Senior Technical Analyst

Christopher Lewis is a technical analyst and market commentator at DailyForex with more than two decades of trading experience in Forex and other leveraged markets. Based in Columbus, Ohio, he specializes in chart-based analysis of major currency pairs, stock indices, commodities, and energy markets, focusing on clear support and resistance levels, trend structure, and risk management. Christopher produces daily written and video analysis for tra...

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The gold market has jumped nicely on Tuesday, as we continue to see plenty of interest in the metals sector. Ultiamtely, this is a good sign, but also a dangerous one.

Gold Futures

The gold market has broken quite a bit higher during the trading session here on Tuesday and it now threatens to break above the $5,000 level. The market is doing exactly what I would not want to see it do. You do not want to see a massive meltdown, a wild day and then a massive turnaround. While that does look strong, what it shows is a lot of instability. Instability breeds more chaos, the more chaos out there in the markets, the more likely it is that people will get hurt.

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So, while I do believe that buying gold is really the only way you can do this, and I certainly do not want to short the market, it is a situation where you are looking for a little bit of stability and maybe a couple of days of sideways action and then some momentum. You need the market to come back to reality and right now, it is obvious that gold markets are just being kicked around like a soccer ball.

Analysis and Market Outlook

Ultimately, this is a market that I do think is looking to the highs again, but you really want to see it take its time getting there. A nice strong uptrend is much more preferable than what we just saw because you got so overbought that the massive crash on Friday quite frankly should not have been a surprise, it is just you never know when that is going to happen.

All things being equal, I do believe that the $4,400 level is now the floor in the market, although we are already $600 above there. I like buying dips on short-term charts that show signs of a recovery.

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Senior Technical Analyst
Christopher Lewis is a technical analyst and market commentator at DailyForex with more than two decades of trading experience in Forex and other leveraged markets. Based in Columbus, Ohio, he specializes in chart-based analysis of major currency pairs, stock indices, commodities, and energy markets, focusing on clear support and resistance levels, trend structure, and risk management. Christopher produces daily written and video analysis for traders who rely on technical setups to navigate volatile market conditions

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