June gold futures last week hit a fresh six-week high of $698.00 an ounce. Prices have backed off a bit this week on some profit-taking pressure, but the bulls still have the solid near-term technical advantage. A six-month-old uptrend line is in place on the daily bar chart for June gold futures. The next upside price objective for the bulls remains major psychological resistance at $700.00 an ounce. If the bulls can push June gold futures prices over the $700.00 hump, then more sizeable price gains on the upside could be expected. However, pushing the precious yellow metal above $700.00 has been, and will be, no easy chore for the bulls.
In February, the bulls were able to push June gold up to the $699.00-an-ounce level, only to see prices back off sharply, by over $50.00 an ounce. Prices have since recovered, but the $700.00 level remains elusive. And if gold prices do back off significantly from present price levels, then the specter of a bearish double-top reversal pattern would loom on the daily bar chart.
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The gold market bears would gain fresh downside technical momentum to begin to suggest that a near-term market top is in place if they could push and close June futures below solid chart support at $675.00 an ounce. However, serious near-term technical damage in June gold futures would not be inflicted until prices dropped below trend-line support at the $650.00 price level.
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