Another swing target hit in gold

Many traders can't bring themselves to trade against the crowd. But if you stay true to your trading methods, you should have nothing to fear, says John C Burford.

I will continue with gold, as there is a tremendous battle now taking place between the bulls and the bears. It's producing some terrific swing trading opportunities, and some great examples of trader psychology.

On Monday, I was working a long trade from the $1,570 area. This trade was based on my assessment that the market had washed out enough weak longs in its headlong plunge to the $1,555-low last Thursday.

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John is is a British-born lapsed PhD physicist, who previously worked for Nasa on the Mars exploration team. He is a former commodity trading advisor with the US Commodities Futures Trading Commission, and worked in a boutique futures house in California in the 1980s.

 

He was a partner in one of the first futures newsletter advisory services, based in Washington DC, specialising in pork bellies and currencies. John is primarily a chart-reading trader, having cut his trading teeth in the days before PCs.

 

As well as his work in the financial world, he has launched, run and sold several 'real' businesses producing 'real' products.