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Stopped in/out

Gold is putting in a massive shooting star candle so far today. You watch these type of candles very carefully after an asset has moved sharply as it could be the first indication of a short term trend reversal. The psychology is very powerful as it basically tells you the buyers, in this case, could be losing steam as we reject prices higher. We almost reached the upper part of the trend channel and RSI is at 79! Are we nearing the point where the last gold skeptic has been “stopped in” and the stubborn short has been “stopped out”?

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About the author
David Llewellyn-Smith is Chief Strategist at the MB Fund and MB Super. David is the founding publisher and editor of MacroBusiness and was the founding publisher and global economy editor of The Diplomat, the Asia Pacific’s leading geo-politics and economics portal. He is also a former gold trader and economic commentator at The Sydney Morning Herald, The Age, the ABC and Business Spectator. He is the co-author of The Great Crash of 2008 with Ross Garnaut and was the editor of the second Garnaut Climate Change Review.