When we come to the gold market, you can see you're back up here, and for the week, it's up 2.59 percent right now. The action, we had that big break. The market broke the downtrend line, and you've gotten a bit of a rally; you can see how it's come up. And you no longer have the pattern of lower highs, lower lows.
What did the market hold? Well, even though it's slipped through it for hours at a time, that was about it; it was the Bollinger Band, and it kicked it back up here. And now, the market's waiting for something else to create a trend. Momentum, you're no longer pointing down, you're starting to point up.
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