Gold Technical Report: Gold prices traded rangebound yesterday with a positive bias and moved further up registering a green candle on fifth consecutive day as it has reclaimed the psychological mark of 2000 and also the 100 days Exponential Moving Average @ 2004 recently. The recent swings are contained in the range recorded by extreme points when it crossed above 2100 mark upside on 4th Dec and also drifted down below 1980 on 12th Dec. The short term Stochastics Oscillator is at 60 (it is considered overbought when above 80 and oversold when below 20) and Relative Strength Index (RSI) is at 52 (it is considered overbought when above 70 and oversold when below 30).
Silver Technical Report: Silver prices remained in a narrow range and registered a red DOJI candle showing indecision after recent pullback. It had almost fully reversed the gains of previous session when it crossed above 200 days EMA for the first time in last 36 days. The recent upmoves were capped around 23.40 where all 50,100 and 200 days Exponential Moving Averages are clustering. The Short term Stochastics Oscillator is at 63 and Relative Strength Index near 51.
Fundamental Report: The Gold prices, retained its bullish outlook, having paused its recovery rally briefly before. A risk-on market environment is acting as a headwind for the US Dollar, despite the unclear US Federal Reserve (Fed) January meeting Minutes. The Fed Minutes were read as hawkish but failed to have any lasting positive impact on the US Dollar. Fed stated, “most participants noted the risks of moving too quickly to ease the stance of policy and emphasized the importance of carefully assessing incoming data in judging whether inflation is moving down sustainably to 2 percent.” Markets are currently pricing in just about a 30% chance that the Fed could begin easing rates in May, much lower than an over 80% chance a month ago, according to the CME FedWatch Tool. For the June meeting, the probability for a rate cut.