What next for the rallying gold price?

With the price of gold price having to meet his targets, John C Burford looks to see if now is a good time to set a short trade.

The last time I wrote about gold on 6 January, I had taken profits from a short trade and was looking for a decent rally from the oversold condition.

I wrote: "I have drawn in a new set of up-sloping tramlines containing the rally. The touch-points are pretty good. But now at the $1,620 area, we are approaching the Fibonacci 38% retrace of the move down from the $1,800 high, the down-sloping satellite tramline, and the upper up-sloping tramline.

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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.