Buying the Retreat in Gold

The current focus in the market is on the banking sector crisis, which is providing support to the price of gold. As a result, global yields are expected to decrease due to anticipation of less hawkish sentiment surrounding the Federal Reserve.

Credit Suisse which is a major Swiss bank, has announced that it will borrow up to $54 billion from the SNB to strengthen its liquidity and investor confidence, following a sharp drop in its share prices on Wednesday by as much as 30%. While this news has helped to ease some of the heavy selling in Asian markets, overall market sentiment remains fragile.

Besides that, the European Central Bank has reportedly reached out to banks under its supervision to assess their exposure to Credit Suisse. We have been mostly long on God for a week, although last night we opened a couple of sell Gold signals as the price was retreating lower, which closed in profit.

Now we shifted position and opened a buy Gold signal after the latest retreat to the 50 SMA (yellow) which is acting as support. Meanwhile, crude Oil remains bearish and we have been selling retraces higher on US WTI crude after the break of the support zone around $70.