About to enter its 12th day of tedium, gold is quite obviously in no hurry to move up to the next plateau, 945.90, let alone take on the $1000 barrier. The midpoint sibling of that Hidden Pivot is 918.10, as noted here earlier, and we should want to see a close above that number before we infer that bulls are keen to inflict damage on the likes of JP Morgan and other nefarious agents of the Federal Reserve. From a trading perspective, there were two Hidden Pivot supports available on Friday where one could attempt bottom-fishing with tight stops: 909.20 and 901.00. However, both may have been pulverized by the time you read this if Sunday’s opening is lacking in delicacy. _______ UPDATE: The second of the two pivots given above, 901.20, would have worked nicely for bottom-fishers, even those using a stop-loss as tight as three ticks, since the futures managed an $8 bounce from 901.20. It was short-lived, however, and the April contract had relapsed to as low as 895.00 in the early going on Monday. The nearest logical support was 890.30, equal to a key intraday low recorded a wek ago.