When we look at the gold market, you can see where we're at for the week; we are up 1.47%, so that's not bad. When we look at the bar chart of the daily, well, I can make an argument that this market is trying to bottom itself out here. It's well off its lows. It's holding. You can't say anything more than that.
You can't say, "Oh well, Ira, it's making a bold trend, it's got higher lows, higher highs." It could happen. All you need to do is take out $3255.80, that's not far away. That's $27 or so, and that would do it.
What the market did hold is the lower Bollinger Band. The trend is down, and when we look at momentum, it's oversold. So, is it a place that I think the pros are putting out new shorts? I do not. Is there a reason to go long? Not one that I see on the charts.
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Ira began in the futures markets in 1969. Over the years he worked his way up, starting from the ground up as a "floor runner" culminating with his becoming a Floor Trader. In the mid 1970s Ira decided to make a career shift within the industry to develop both retail and commercial based clientele. His customer base grew to the point whereby in 1984 he founded "Ira Epstein & Company", a trading firm specializing in retail, commercial and self-directed discount futures trading. Along the way Ira became a leader in trading technology out of necessity, due to increased small lot trade volume. He was among the first to embrace the Internet, which as you know has dramatically changed both the way information is delivered and how trading takes place today.
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