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Another upwards day was expected by both Elliott wave counts.

Summary: The upwards trend now looks choppy and overlapping, so it may be a diagonal nearing its end. The target at 1,320 may be too high.

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MAIN ELLIOTT WAVE COUNT

WEEKLY CHART

Gold Elliott Wave Chart Weekly I 2017
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The Magee bear market trend line is added to the weekly charts. This cyan line is drawn from the all time high for Gold on the 6th of September, 2011, to the first major swing high within the following bear market on the 5th of October, 2012. This line should provide strong resistance.

To use this trend line in the way Magee describes, we should assume that price will find resistance at the line if it gets back up there. If the line is breached (by at least one or two full daily candlesticks above it), it will be signalling a major trend change from bear to bull. At that point the alternate Elliott wave count should be preferred.

At this stage, a triangle still looks possible and has the best fit for cycle wave b. It has strong support now from declining ATR and MACD hovering about zero.

Within a triangle, one sub-wave should be a more complicated multiple, which may be primary wave C. This is the most common sub-wave of the triangle to subdivide into a multiple.

Intermediate wave (Y) now looks like a developing zigzag at the weekly chart level, and minor wave B within it shows up with one red weekly candlestick. Primary wave C may end at the Magee trend line.

Primary wave D of a contracting triangle may not move beyond the end of primary wave B below 1,123.08. Contracting triangles are the most common variety.

Primary wave D of a barrier triangle should end about the same level as primary wave B at 1,123.08, so that the B-D trend line remains essentially flat. This involves some subjectivity; price may move slightly below 1,123.08 and the triangle wave count may remain valid. This is the only Elliott wave rule which is not black and white.

Finally, primary wave E of a contracting or barrier triangle may not move beyond the end of primary wave C above 1,295.65. Primary wave E would most likely fall short of the A-C trend line. But if it does not end there, then it can slightly overshoot that trend line.

Primary wave A lasted 31 weeks, primary wave B lasted 23 weeks, and primary wave C may now have just completed its 34th week. A double zigzag may be expected to be longer lasting than single zigzags within a triangle, and so this continuation of primary wave C is entirely acceptable and leaves the wave count with the right look at this time frame.

DAILY CHART

Gold Elliott Wave Chart Daily 2017
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A target for primary wave C to end is calculated using the most common Fibonacci ratio between minor waves A and C. If the target is wrong, it may be too high; there is very strong resistance about 1,305 to 1,310. At this stage, the target at 1,320 may see upwards movement end about the Magee trend line.

Along the way up, corrections should find final support at the lower edge of the blue Elliott channel.

Minor wave C may only unfold as a five wave structure, either an impulse or an ending diagonal. At the end of this week, overlapping by downwards movement on Friday indicates an ending diagonal should be considered. Two hourly charts are provided below for both possible structures of minor wave C.

Within an impulse for minor wave C, the corrections of minute waves ii and iv would most likely show up on the daily chart, like they do within minor wave A. Minute waves ii and iv within minor wave A both lasted two sessions, so they may also last about two to three sessions within minor wave C.

Minute wave ii now shows up with two red daily candlesticks. It has a typical look.

Within minute wave iii, no second wave correction may move beyond its start below 1,267.72.

FIRST HOURLY CHART

Gold Elliott Wave Chart Hourly 2017
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If minor wave C is an impulse, then it must have begun with two overlapping first and second waves.

Downwards movement at the end of Friday’s session cannot be minute wave iv because it is back down within minute wave i price territory. Therefore, minute wave iii cannot be over.

This wave count now looks like the final target at 1,320 may not be high enough. It may not allow enough room for the structure of minor wave C to complete as an impulse. A higher target could be calculated, but that would require an overshoot or breach of the Magee trend line. That should not happen for this wave count.

SECOND HOURLY CHART

Gold Elliott Wave Chart Hourly 2017
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The other structural possibility for minor wave C is an ending diagonal, which are more commonly contracting than expanding. The classic pattern equivalent here is a rising wedge. They are terminal structures.

This diagonal would be contracting because minute wave iii is slightly shorter than minute wave i. This limits minute wave iv; it must be shorter than minute wave ii and must end before the invalidation point. The trend lines (in pink) must also converge.

The final target for this wave count at 1,320 may be too high. When minute wave iv is over, then a new target and a limit for minute wave v can be calculated. That cannot be done yet.

Diagonals normally adhere very well to their trend lines. Occasionally, there are small overshoots, but the diagonal trend lines should not be breached as the diagonal unfolds (until the end of the fifth wave). That means that the lower ii-iv trend line should sit where it is shown on this chart. For it to have a stronger slope would see too great a breach at the start of minute wave iii.

Contracting diagonals very commonly end with an overthrow of the i-iii trend line.

ALTERNATE ELLIOTT WAVE COUNT

WEEKLY CHART

Gold Elliott Wave Chart Weekly I 2017
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This wave count has been published only in historical analysis. At this stage, it will be published on a daily basis.

There are more than 23 possible corrective structures that B waves may take, and although cycle wave b fits best at this stage as a triangle (main wave count), it may still be another structure. This wave count looks at the possibility that it may be a double zigzag.

If cycle wave b is a double zigzag, then current upwards movement may be part of the second zigzag in the double, labelled primary wave Y.

The target remains the same as previously published for this wave count.

Along the way up, some resistance should be expected at the cyan Magee trend line. Because this wave count requires price to break above the Magee trend line, it must be judged to have a lower probability for this reason. This trend line is tested multiple times and goes back to 2011. It is reasonable to expect price to find resistance there, until proven otherwise.

Within intermediate wave (C), no second wave correction may move beyond the start of its first wave below 1,205.41.

DAILY CHART

Gold Elliott Wave Chart Daily 2017
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Intermediate wave (C) may be unfolding as an impulse.

Within the impulse, minor waves 1 and 2 would now be complete. Minor wave 3 must unfold as an impulse, and within it minute waves i and now ii would also be complete.

HOURLY CHART

Gold Elliott Wave Chart Hourly 2017
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This hourly chart is exactly the same as the first hourly chart for the main Elliott wave count. 1-2-3 of an impulse subdivides exactly the same as A-B-C of a zigzag.

Minor wave 3 may only subdivide as an impulse for this alternate wave count. Minor wave 3 may not be a diagonal. The second hourly chart for the main wave count does not work for this alternate.

The target is now different. This wave count is more bullish, and it expects to see a breach of the Magee trend line.

TECHNICAL ANALYSIS

WEEKLY CHART

Gold Weekly 2017
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Price is finding very strong resistance about 1,310.

The upper purple resistance line for On Balance Volume is adjusted. On Balance Volume turning down from this line is a bearish signal.

ADX and ATR at the weekly chart level still strongly support the main Elliott wave count.

DAILY CHART

Gold Daily 2016
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The long upper candlestick wick for Friday is very bearish, as is support from volume. It looks like price has found very strong resistance about 1,305 – 1,310 and reacted very strongly there. This is very bearish. Also, it puts some doubt on whether or not the target for the main Elliott wave count at 1,320 can be met.

The upper purple resistance line for On Balance Volume is adjusted. On Balance Volume gives a bearish signal at the daily chart level also.

GDX

DAILY CHART

GDX Daily 2016
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This market has been trendless for a long time now as a large triangle completes. Descending triangles most commonly break out downwards, but this is contradicted by volume during this triangle being strongest for upwards days.

An outside day has some support from volume for downwards movement during the session.

The volume profile short term is bearish. Stochastics is bearish.

On Balance Volume may halt the fall in price though. If Monday is another downwards day, then it may not be by much.

Published @ 09:13 p.m. EST.