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This Article is From Oct 07, 2016

Gold’s Drop Below 200-Day Average May Trigger More Losses: Chart

Gold’s drop below 200-day average, most since February. 

Gold’s Drop Below 200-Day Average May Trigger More Losses: Chart
One Kilogram Gold Bars (Photographer: Dario Pignatelli/Bloomberg)

(Bloomberg) -- Gold just dropped below its 200-day moving average -- a key technical level often used by chart watchers to predict future moves -- for the first time since February. Prices lost at least 7 percent within about two months on two occasions when the metal fell below the measure in 2014 and 2015. A slump below the moving average may mean this year's uptrend is over, said Georgette Boele, a currency and commodity strategist at ABN Amro Bank NV in Amsterdam.

To contact the reporter on this story: Eddie van der Walt in London at evanderwalt@bloomberg.net. To contact the editors responsible for this story: Lynn Thomasson at lthomasson@bloomberg.net, Nicholas Larkin

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