Performance After Golden Crosses In The Last 4 Decades

Posted: 23 Mar 2014 03:14 PM PDT

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Gold's daily chart is currently showing its 50 day moving average crossing over its 200 day moving average. In technical analysis, this situation is known as a "golden cross", as it marks an uptrend.

Commonly, the golden cross confirms a new uptrend. One should expect a golden cross to be good news. While we are not saying the opposite, we only point out that not all similar cases in the past have turned out to be very profitable for gold.

Readers know that our focus is to bring unbiased news and analysis. In that respect, the following research, based on facts and figures, should bring an unbiased view on the history of gold's golden crosses.

From Sentimentrader:

Below table shows the performance of gold once it triggers a golden cross. The table shows how many trading days it took before the signal reversed (the 50-day average fell below the 200-day average), along with gold's return, maximum loss and maximum gain during the "trade".

It also shows gold's returns in the days, weeks and months following the initial buy signal.

The results were not impressive. By definition, gold had already been rallying by the time the golden cross took place, and more often than not it entered a period of mean-reversion after that, falling back across all time frames, and performing worse than any random time.

While gold's 50-day average remained above its 200-day average for six months on average, there was extremely wide variation in the signals. When it worked, it tended to work extremely well, capturing several huge gains. But like all trend-following strategies, the few big winners have to outweigh all of the other signals, which are small gains or outright losses.

In gold's case, the golden cross does not meet that test. There are some reasons to be positive on the metal, but this "buy" signal is not one of them.

This is not to say that gold will inevitably move lower in the days and months ahead. We only point out that history has shown that a golden cross has mostly not resulted in significantly higher prices, except in some exceptional cases. On the other hand, the correction of the last two years has been rather exceptional, which is in favor of at least a technical recovery of gold. So the signals are mixed for the time being. It is critical to monitor the reaction of technical and sentiment indicators on ongoing price evolution in the weeks and months ahead.

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<b>Gold Price</b> Analysis- March 19, 2014 - DailyForex.com

Posted: 19 Mar 2014 12:27 AM PDT

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Gold prices settled lower yesterday, extending losses to second straight session, as easing fears of a wider conflict stemming from Russia and Ukraine dented the previous metal's safe-haven appeal. The American dollar was also supported by better than expected U.S. housing data. The Commerce Department's report showed that building permits climbed 7.7% to a 1.02 million pace in February.

In the meantime, the major stock markets are recovering and that is soaring the demand for disaster insurance. From a technical perspective, the weekly chart remains bearish as the pair trades below the Ichimoku cloud and because of that, I still think that there will be significant resistance levels ahead and breaking through these barriers will not be so easy. Although Monday's bearish engulfing pattern supports this theory, further confirmation is required to say that the trend is about to reverse.

The Federal Open Market Committee concludes a two-day meeting today and until the announcement gold prices will probably continue to respect the ascending channel. That means the 1350 level where the top of the Ichimoku cloud (4-hour chart) and the bottom line of the channel reside will be supportive in the short term.

If this level remains intact and the XAU/USD pair starts to climb, the first challenge will be waiting the bulls at the 1365 level. If the bulls manage to break and hold above 1365, then we could see a test of the 1376 resistance level. If prices drop below 1346, there is a strong possibility that the market will continue to retreat and head towards the 1333/0 area. A daily close below 1330 would shift things to the bears and increase speculative selling pressure.

Gold Price Performance After Golden Crosses In The Last 4 Decades

<b>Gold Price</b> Performance After Golden Crosses In The Last 4 Decades

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