Since the U.S. presidential election last November 2016, there have been six sell-offs of gold (including the current sell-off). I did a rough count of the price drop waves (followed by consolidation), and measured the time in days from absolute peak to the lowest low or the double bottom which preceded a rise in price.
As you can see, each of the five prior sell-offs was longer in duration, and also the absolute price drop was more each time than the current sell-off. Moreover, four of the five sell-offs had more than three selling waves, as we have now. As I have been saying, I will not attempt to pick this bottom, especially in an end-of-year period with much-higher-than-average commercial short interest.
I do think that the rise of bitcoin has hurt investor sentiment in gold. As the bitcoin futures roll out in the next few weeks, I expect bitcoin to rise in price in the short run (perhaps at the expense of gold).
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