Gold tries to find a floor after a bruising drop last week

Gold is up 1% today or $22 to $2355.It's a decent rebound to start the week after heavy profit taking last Wednesday/Thursday. Technically, this was a damaging blow but on the daily chart, it's not as bad as the short term charts. It didn't even come close to testing the $2275 support level, let alone the old record highs in the $2075 zone.It's a reminder that this chart has gone super-nova in the March-May period and some profit taking was overdue. Overall though, I see the swift correction as a good sign. A bull market goes slowly up the escalator and corrects quickly on the elevator.Moreover, I think this image was as big of a threat to the dollar-denominated system as we will see in my lifetime:These are two superpowers saying they want to build a system out of reach of the US and you can't do that with US dollars. Both countries are increasing gold reserves and I don't see any reason why that will stop, particularly as the EU and US divvy up frozen Russian assets. This article was written by Adam Button at www.forexlive.com.

Gold tries to find a floor after a bruising drop last week

Gold is up 1% today or $22 to $2355.

It's a decent rebound to start the week after heavy profit taking last Wednesday/Thursday.

Technically, this was a damaging blow but on the daily chart, it's not as bad as the short term charts. It didn't even come close to testing the $2275 support level, let alone the old record highs in the $2075 zone.

It's a reminder that this chart has gone super-nova in the March-May period and some profit taking was overdue. Overall though, I see the swift correction as a good sign. A bull market goes slowly up the escalator and corrects quickly on the elevator.

Moreover, I think this image was as big of a threat to the dollar-denominated system as we will see in my lifetime:

These are two superpowers saying they want to build a system out of reach of the US and you can't do that with US dollars. Both countries are increasing gold reserves and I don't see any reason why that will stop, particularly as the EU and US divvy up frozen Russian assets. This article was written by Adam Button at www.forexlive.com.