Gold and silver both had breakout setups today. Gold was a little easier to identify, as Thursday was a doji bar. Both had an NR4 day Thursday-the narrowest range of the previous four sessions. This is a time when it’s nice to automate chart scanning, as it wasn’t easy to spot on the chart.We had good moves in these markets, let’s look at silver.
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Below is the daily silver chart.I calculate breakout levels with my Trade or Fade service; if you didn’t get ToF but wanted to look for breakout points, Wednesday’s high at 12.47 could have been used, I might have fudged that just over “round number” resistance at 12.50. The down trend line also gave a breakout point.I put the Fibonacci retracements on this chart to give some potential rally targets.
A good breakout rally
The daily ToF report for silver is below.This report was sent out last night, shortly after the night session opened. I calculate the support and resistance levels from the session open, which is the pivot price on the report. The two breakout points were 12.571 to the upside and 12.159 down.
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A 10 minute chart for May silver futures is below.I drew the trendline over the overnight activity to show the slow decline overnight; I thought that was interesting. I just missed this on the chart, but the previous intraday high was 12.555, so a rally through R-1 would also be breaking through that old high-the kind of thing we look for with breakout trading.
Silver traded through R-1 about 7:30, stop losses could have been placed below the old session high; I used the low of the entry bar at 12.500 for stops.It consolidated for a bit then quickly ran to the first profit objective at R-2, or 12.776, for about a 20 cent move in about 30 minutes.If you were looking for a bigger profit objective, the Fibonacci retracement level at 12.888 is resistance, and the final ToF objective at R-3 is 13.054 is next.
A good breakout trade rally
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