On Wednesday (February 5) in the early Asian session, the spot gold price rose rapidly in the short term, reaching $2,862/ounce, setting a record high. The rally was mainly driven by risk aversion triggered by U.S. President Trump's tariff policy, which has significantly increased market demand for gold.
Market background:
Increased risk aversion demand: Trump's tariff policy has triggered global trade tensions, especially China's retaliatory tariff measures against the United States, which has further exacerbated market uncertainty. Investors have turned to safe-haven assets such as gold, pushing up gold prices.
The decline in the US dollar and US Treasury yields: US job vacancies in December hit the largest drop in 14 months, dragging down the US dollar and US Treasury yields, further providing momentum for gold prices to rise.
Impact of economic data: The market will focus on data such as the US ADP employment in January, the December trade account, the final value of the S&P Global Services PMI in January, and the ISM Non-Manufacturing PMI in January. If these data perform poorly, it may further push up gold prices.
Fundamental analysis:
Although gold prices faced multiple negative pressures last week, such as the Fed meeting reiterated that inflation was high and the labor market was strong, gold prices did not fall back, but continued to strengthen. The main reasons include:
Expectations for interest rate cuts have weakened: Although Fed officials are cautious about interest rate cuts, the market still expects that interest rates may be cut in the future, which provides support for gold prices.
Inflation pressure: High inflation has not led to interest rate hikes, but has increased the commodity price of gold, further driving up gold prices.
Economic uncertainty: Economic concerns and potential trade conflicts brought about by Trump's policies have increased market uncertainty, pushed up inflation expectations, and further boosted gold's safe-haven demand.
Technical analysis:
Gold prices have now broken through the key resistance level of $2,853. If they can remain above this level, gold prices are expected to rise further, with the target pointing to the $3,000 mark. The overall market expectations are negative for gold prices, but if economic data performs poorly, gold prices may continue to rise.
Despite some negative factors, such as weakening expectations of interest rate cuts, high inflation and a strong labor market, these factors have not put substantial pressure on gold prices. On the contrary, market concerns about economic uncertainty and trade conflicts have driven the safe-haven demand for gold. Therefore, gold prices are expected to continue to rise in 2025 and hit the $3,000 mark.
Investors need to pay close attention to the upcoming US economic data, which will have an important impact on the short-term trend of gold prices.
Yesterday, gold fell slightly in volatile trading and stabilized at the 2807 mark, ushering in a strong bottoming out and rebounding to break the high continuously. The European session gold price further broke through the morning high of 2824 and continued to rise above 2830 to continue to rise strongly. The US session gold price accelerated to break through the 2845 line and fell back to close strongly. The daily K-line closed strongly and broke through the high-middle Yang. The overall gold price continued the extremely strong unilateral rise of the bulls relying on the support of the 5-day moving average.
The 4-hour chart shows a one-sided step channel rising. Combined with the middle track of the Bollinger Band as the critical point for bulls, this week's bulls are consolidating and correcting, and the space for stepping back is relatively limited. The previous retracement low of 2772 has been far away, and the second lowest point is at the starting position of 2806. The second lowest point coincides with the support position of the middle track at 2810, which is a short-term bull defense point. It is currently in a unilateral pull-up. Today's Asian session is expected to rise by inertia, and the European and American sessions will rise again after consolidation and correction. Today's lower support continues to focus on yesterday's hourly neckline near 2833. If it stabilizes at this position during the day, it can continue to be bullish. The upper short-term resistance focuses on the 2865 mark, and the short-term bullish strong dividing line focuses on the 2825-2830 line. If the daily level stabilizes above this position, continue to keep the low-level long rhythm unchanged.
Gold operation strategy:
1. If gold falls back to the 2825-2830 line, go long, and if it falls back to the 2810-2812 line, cover the position and go long. Stop loss at 2803, and target the 2848-2850 line; continue to hold if the position is broken!