The Gold Trader
Full-time gold day trader for 13 years. Ex US Ambassador in Zimbabwe. Weekly intelligence-level reports on XAU/USD.
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How to survive a week where every macro input is working against Gold [GOLD MARKET MOVERS: Sep 29- Oct 02] (opens the original)
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This post is live and will be written as the week develops and new data and news drop. Please check your TG channel throughout the week for XAUUSD levels updates.⚡ THE WEEK IN 2 MIN:Gold dropped over 3% on Monday to its lowest level since August 5. Several macro things are pushing in the same direction at once:The market keeps pricing in more hikes. The 2-year yield is approaching 5%. October hike odds have risen to 70–75%, from about 58% a week ago.At the long end, yields are rising too. The 30
The inflationary mindset: the Fed's new worry (opens the original)
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The Fed now blames demand, not energy, for inflation [GOLD MARKET MOVERS: Sep 23-25] (opens the original)
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This post is live and will be written as the week develops and new data and news drop. Please check your TG channel throughout the week for XAUUSD levels updates.⚡ THE WEEK IN 2 MIN:Between Sunday and Tuesday, Kashkari, Goolsbee, Musalem and Collins all made roughly the same point: inflation is coming from stronger demand and services, not just energy. Oil is not treated as a one-off problem anymore, which is partially why oil gave back the spike, yet Gold is struggling to recover.And since the
Less gamma, more drama: why this week’s Gold move could travel further (opens the original)
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Dot plot: The median was friendly, the distribution wasn't (opens the original)
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⚠️ Heads up traders! This is PART 1 of my weekly Gold Insider report.Full flow breakdown, technical key levels, and my trade ideas will drop tomorrow.I’m a Hitchcock fan, and in his movies he often used a MacGuffin technique. A MacGuffin is an object that every character in a movie would chase - say, some briefcase or some secret documents, whatever. As a viewer, you’d spend the whole movie wondering what’s inside but then the movie ends and it turns out that this object didn’t even remotely
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