Just a few more baby steps and the futures will succeed at something that has haunted the long-term picture since February. At that time, a sharp, four-month rally narrowly failed to get past a key peak at 1028.00 recorded seven months earlier. If the current thrust tops 1028.00, it will create a quite powerful bullish impulse leg on the weekly chart. And incidentally, if the rally fails to get past gold’s all-time recovery high at 1060.00 (basis the Comex December contract), it could conceivably create a camouflaged entry opportunity on the weekly chart.  That would be rare indeed.