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Gold is testing $1,808 / £42.37 as this is being written. If prices stay above $1,800 / £42.18 it could lead to fresh long buying and stop-loss liquidation of shorts, which could take gold prices briefly to $1,810 / £42.42 or $1,818 / £42.60.   

However, if gold fails to mount $1,800 / £42.18 convincingly new selling could take prices back down, with technical targets at $1,780 / £41.71, and lower.  

Financial markets have been trying to understand how an economy might be expanding while it has issues to deal with. That should not be a difficult concept to grasp, since it happens constantly, but financial markets sometimes are collectively baffled by the simplest things.  

Gold is no exception, having been range-bound for a few weeks. It has been registering higher lows since the late September sell-off, however, suggesting upward momentum may be greater than the offsetting impulses to short gold.  

Gold remains highly vulnerable to another sell-off, but the momentum is toward higher prices.   

Notes: Initial Target Prices and Timeframes are just that: Initial. If CPM does not issue a new Recommendation during or after that time it indicates that CPM maintains the posture in the most recent Trade Recommendation. Discretion should be allowed at +/- 0.20% of the price at the time each TR is issued from the target. Recommendations are valid until the target date or a new Trade Recommendation or message is issued by CPM. CPM’s preferred investment strategies use physical, futures, forwards, and options. US$/GBP exchange rate used: 0.73