Gold Chart of The Week

Each Week Longleaftrading.com will be providing us a chart of the week as analyzed by a member of their team. We hope that you enjoy and learn from this new feature.

Weekly Gold Report (April 15th through April 19th)

 It has been a few years since the Precious Metals have seen a Friday selloff followed by an even bigger Sunday night drop, but anyone that has been trading since 2008 remembers prior price action like this. And when any sector of the market experiences drops like these, everyone will be racing to the television and internet hoping to find someone bold enough to confidently call “THE LOW”. As far as this article and this drop are concerned, I think it is way too early to begin spouting target prices for a low. With all of the expected margin calls and positioning that will follow, I feel the best thing to do is be patient and let things in the Metals settle down before stepping in for a long term play. There should be many intraday trades available thanks to the expected volatility, but the long term play will be too difficult to depend on this early in the week. Continue reading "Gold Chart of The Week"

Gold Chart of The Week

Each Week Longleaftrading.com will be providing us a chart of the week as analyzed by a member of their team. We hope that you enjoy and learn from this new feature.

Weekly Gold Report (April 8th through April 12th)

After the worst weekly decline of the year in US equities, we are slowly on the mend as we enter a week full of FED activity.

A few standouts from last week included a terrible Non Farm Payroll number on Friday and a full throttle campaign from the BOJ to continue to crush the Yen. Fridays jobs number was a big miss as 88,000 jobs were added and some real numbers regarding the drop in individuals that are actively looking for jobs was revealed. Even after these figures were announced, the stock indexes were only rattled for a short period of time before the realization that the FED will step up Quantitative Easing set back in. Since then, the stock market seems to be holding up fairly well. Continue reading "Gold Chart of The Week"

Gold Chart of The Week

Each Week Longleaftrading.com will be providing us a chart of the week as analyzed by a member of their team. We hope that you enjoy and learn from this new feature.

Weekly Gold Report (April 1 through April 5th)

After reviewing notes and performance from last week in the markets, one cannot help but be impressed by the US stock indexes. Despite reaching record levels on the charts, despite mediocre reports, and despite continued concerns about the ripple effect of Cyprus, the buy switch continued to stay on. The same big question still remains, “when will the market retrace”?

I believe that the stock indexes in the US will begin a gradual decline once European news begins to flow again. It has been too long since we heard the likes of Angela Merkel, Francois Hollande, and Mario Draghi. I think back to last year when these three may as well have been the President, Vice President, and Speaker of the House in the US with all of the press they had here. Yet suddenly, they have seemingly disappeared from all news lately. Continue reading "Gold Chart of The Week"

Gold Chart of The Week

Each Week Longleaftrading.com will be providing us a chart of the week as analyzed by a member of their team. We hope that you enjoy and learn from this new feature.

Weekly Gold Report (March 18th through March 22nd)

And so it begins. The first wave of profit taking came on a Sunday night thanks to reports from Cyprus that banks may begin taking money from accounts to help satisfy debt. While the final vote on its implementation has been postponed until later today, the news alone of banks seizing money from account holders at will was enough to have not only European investors concerned, the worry carried over to markets globally. Continue reading "Gold Chart of The Week"

Gold Chart of The Week

Each Week Longleaftrading.com will be providing us a chart of the week as analyzed by a member of their team. We hope that you enjoy and learn from this new feature.

Weekly Gold Report (March 11th through March 15th)

Will there be a follow through bid up in the US stock indexes this week? That is the million dollar question while Metals remain choppy.

I believe that there is still a bit of upside left in the markets, but not much. If you look back at the reported earnings over the last few weeks, we have seen some fairly good numbers. Many companies have reported better than expected figures, which have given investors a reason to be bullish stocks. The chart pattern shows that investors were waiting for any pullback to buy stocks, and many were ok with buying new highs. It doesn’t get much more bullish than that. Continue reading "Gold Chart of The Week"