GCZ12 – December Gold (Last:1709.80)

A 1686.00 target billboarded here earlier remains valid. Notice how Sunday night’s rally is inching yet again toward the 1720.20 midpoint pivot of our correction target.  It mutated from support to resistance following last week’s decisive breach, and even if the futures get through it now the rally would have to hit 1739.80 to turn the hourly chart convincingly bullish. I’ve highlighted this number in the accompanying chart so that you can see its significance, impulsively speaking. _______ UPDATE (Tuesday, 2:05 a.m. EDT):  A close above the 1720.20 pivot noted above would bring bulls back to life, but otherwise we should stay focused on the 1686.00 target as a minimum downside objective for the near term.