The bad guys had gold on the run Sunday night, presumably bound for the 1672.30 downside target of the pattern shown.  It would take nothing less than a pop to 1733.00 overnight or Monday to put bulls back on the offensive. The bearish target can be bottom-fished — preferably with camouflage, but if you want to take the easy (but somewhat riskier) path, because the pattern has such gnarly appeal, you can bid 1672.40 with a 0.50-point stop-loss. Nimble traders can also look for a turn at 1685.70, the midpoint support of the lesser pattern shown with purple ABC coordinates.  Keep in mind that ‘camo’ shorts would be aligned with some even larger downtrends that point to either 1638.00 or 1633.10.  _______ UPDATE (11:43 a.m. EST):  Bottom-fishing at 1672.30 could have produced a small profit, but probably no worse than a scratch when the futures subsequently headed lower. There was a 12-minute bounce of $3.40 from 1672.60 at 8:42 a.m. (3-min); and a $3.80 bounce from 1672.00 that lasted just a few minutes. Since we were using an initial stop-loss of 50 cents, the bounce we’d anticipated need only have been $1.50 to give us a reason to take a partial profit on half the position.