{"id":1201,"date":"2026-08-08T02:32:03","date_gmt":"2026-08-08T02:32:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/goontrading.com\/en\/1201-2\/"},"modified":"2026-08-08T02:32:03","modified_gmt":"2026-08-08T02:32:03","slug":"1201-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/goontrading.com\/en\/1201-2\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u26a1 <b data-path-to-node=\"4,0,1\" data-index-in-node=\"2\">Trade with Ultra-Low Spreads on IC Markets!<\/b> \u2794 <a href=\"https:\/\/ic.com\/?camp=28736\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><code data-path-to-node=\"4,0,1\" data-index-in-node=\"48\">[Link]<\/code><\/a><\/p>\n<p>\ud83c\udf81 <b data-path-to-node=\"8,0,1\" data-index-in-node=\"3\">Get Your Exclusive XM Deposit Bonus Now!<\/b> \u2794 <a href=\"https:\/\/clicks.pipaffiliates.com\/c?c=423232&amp;l=vi&amp;p=6\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><code data-path-to-node=\"8,0,1\" data-index-in-node=\"46\">[Link]<\/code><\/a><\/p>\n<p>\ud83d\udca1 <b data-path-to-node=\"12,1,1\" data-index-in-node=\"3\">Master the Markets with FXTM Copy Trading<\/b> \u2794 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.fxtm.com\/en\/learn\/copy-trading\/?form=JeWL\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><code data-path-to-node=\"12,1,1\" data-index-in-node=\"47\">[Link]<\/code><\/a><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"We said don&apos;t wait for September &amp; gold just had its best week since January. Next stop: $5,000? teaser image\" width=\"1340\" height=\"756\" data-nimg=\"1\" class=\"rounded-lg object-contain w-full h-auto\" style=\"color:transparent\" src=\"https:\/\/goontrading.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2026\/08\/67d56de2-e6be-4778-b5b4-0cec9556086d.webp\" title=\"67d56de2-e6be-4778-b5b4-0cec9556086d\"><\/p>\n<div class=\"relative text-base article-alias_articleBodyStyles__zkPMo article-alias_articleWrapper__atgO6\" id=\"articleBody\">\n<p>Last week, we made the case that gold and silver weren&#8217;t waiting for a September Fed meeting to bottom and that a market refusing to break down after absorbing every piece of bad news isn&#8217;t weakness; it&#8217;s a spring compressing. This week, the spring released. Gold posted its best week since January, and December futures that were consolidating near $4,100 just traded through $4,400. The turn we mapped is underway, and every Sunday in our Navigating the Week Ahead report, we lay out the key levels and setups before the trading week opens. If you want to be positioned for the next leg instead of chasing it, sign up here.<\/p>\n<p>To understand why this week mattered so much, go back to March 2nd. That was the day crude oil gapped higher, and gold fell $250 an ounce in the same session. From that moment forward, the market was pricing one story: rising energy prices feeding the inflation numbers, and a Fed forced to sound tougher than the economy warranted. Gold spent five months fighting that theme.<\/p>\n<p>This week, the entire story reversed. Crude fell roughly 7%, which strips away the very thing that was keeping the Fed hawkish. Yields put in a lower high, with the 2-year pressing down against its 50-day moving average. Then Friday morning delivered the exclamation point: the July jobs report showed the economy lost 23,000 jobs against expectations for a gain of 80,000. Expectations for a September rate hike collapsed. Everything that pushed gold down since March 2nd is now running in the other direction.<\/p>\n<p>Daily Gold Chart<\/p>\n<p><span data-rmiz=\"\"><span data-rmiz-content=\"not-found\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"article image\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"600\" height=\"300\" data-nimg=\"1\" class=\"rounded-lg preview-image mb-2.5 block w-full h-auto\" style=\"color:transparent\" src=\"https:\/\/goontrading.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2026\/08\/7a9969c6-b602-42c0-96bc-6b67d2b6df03.png\" title=\"7a9969c6-b602-42c0-96bc-6b67d2b6df03\"><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>What we find most compelling is what&#8217;s underneath the price. Central banks never left and official purchases are running 62% higher year over year, while China&#8217;s central bank is stockpiling gold in Hong Kong to support the city&#8217;s push to become a major bullion-trading hub. Meanwhile, ETF flows are turning higher but remain down 2.1% year to date \u2014 retail is only now coming back, and this rally has happened almost entirely without them.<\/p>\n<p>The playbook from here is straightforward. Markets that reverse a five-month narrative in a single week rarely go straight up; they pull back, retest, and shake out late arrivals. We view those dips as buying opportunities. Former resistance near $4,280 and the $4,236 area are the zones we&#8217;re watching, and as long as rate-hike expectations continue to fade, we believe this market has the fundamental fuel to retest $5,000 before year-end. To get a look at the roadmap ahead, please be sure to register for our Navigating the Week Ahead report.<\/p>\n<p>Performance<br \/>\nDisclaimer<\/p>\n<p>Hypothetical performance results have many<br \/>\ninherent limitations, some of which are described below. No representation is<br \/>\nbeing made that any account will or is likely to achieve profits or losses<br \/>\nsimilar to those shown. In fact, there are frequently sharp differences between<br \/>\nhypothetical performance results and the actual results subsequently achieved<br \/>\nby any particular trading program.<\/p>\n<p>One of the limitations of hypothetical<br \/>\nperformance results is that they are generally prepared with the benefit of<br \/>\nhindsight. In addition, hypothetical trading does not involve financial risk,<br \/>\nand no hypothetical trading record can completely account for the impact of<br \/>\nfinancial risk in actual trading.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>For example, the ability to withstand losses or<br \/>\nto adhere to a particular trading program in spite of trading losses are<br \/>\nmaterial points that can also adversely affect actual trading results. There<br \/>\nare numerous other factors related to the markets in general or to the<br \/>\nimplementation of any specific trading program that cannot be fully accounted<br \/>\nfor in the preparation of hypothetical performance results all of which can<br \/>\nadversely affect actual trading results.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p style=\"text-align: right\">Kitco.com<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u26a1 Trade with Ultra-Low Spreads on IC Markets! \u2794 [Link] \ud83c\udf81 Get Your Exclusive XM Deposit Bonus Now! \u2794 [Link] \ud83d\udca1 Master the Markets with FXTM Copy Trading \u2794 [Link] Last week, we made the case that gold and silver weren&#8217;t waiting for a September Fed meeting to bottom and that a market refusing to &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[40],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1201","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","","category-gold-commodities-trade-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/goontrading.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1201","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/goontrading.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/goontrading.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/goontrading.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/goontrading.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1201"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/goontrading.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1201\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/goontrading.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1201"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/goontrading.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1201"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/goontrading.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1201"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}