How To Trade Gold And USD

by | Apr 30, 2015 | FOREX TRAINING | 11 comments

How Does Gold Relate To Currencies:

Just a short article on Gold, (Xau) One thing I love about financial markets is that there is so much that one can trade except for the major currencies, traders can find what works for them, take for instance S&P500 and Dow Jones, those two are highly correlated, when one is down the other one is down as well and when one is up, so is the other one, there is power in understanding such relations, knowing how currencies, indices, and commodities relate to each other can save you from doubling up your risk in case your trade goes against you and you have unknowingly traded the”same”thing. Any Forex trader can learn how to trade gold and Usd.

There are few things though that we need to keep in mind when trading gold, firstly we need to understand how it correlates with the currencies like Eur and USD, meaning how it relates to those currencies. Gold is denominated in Us dollar but widely used in global markets and by central banks of foreign countries. As the price of dollar weakens, the price of Gold increases, simply because investors tend to dump the dollar in favor of gold during the times of economic stresses. Most Forex traders know that Gold and Us markets tend to move against each other, strong and reliable correlation right there, they form opposite signal almost all the time, when gold gives a buy signal the Us dollar gives a sell signal, and the signal that is formed ahead of  the other one, can also be used as an indicator to trade the other one, when Us Dollar sells off heavily, gold rises, and so is Eur, it rises as well since Eur and gold are known to be “anti dollar”, in many cases a support/resistance level breakout in gold is often followed by resistance/support breakout on Us dollar. Understanding these correlations is very powerful and can have great impact in trading gold successfully and profitably. What you can do is, open both gold chart (same time frame) and USD chart at the same time, study them both and you will eventually see or confirm this correlation, it is not as difficult as you think, see images below. If you want to start trading Gold today, REGISTER HERE. Thank you for stopping by, please do share the post using the share buttons below. For private lessons, you can check HERE.


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11 Comments

  1. Zim

    As usual, another no nonsense, no B.S informative post from you. I love trading Gold for the very same reason that you’ve mentioned in your post. Its correlation to the USD is always right on the spot.

    Keep up the good work…..

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    • Ntomby Malatsi

      Thank you very much Zim,and I know you’ve been doing very well on Gold,there’s more to this market,let’s keep digging for more treasures

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    • Pakiso

      sis Ntombi am really astonished by your work…..

      keep up the Good work

      Reply
      • Ntombi Malatsi

        Hello Pakiso

        Thank you so much, I am just happy that you are here reading.

        Reply
  2. George

    I just like the way you people are so informative.

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    • Ntombi Malatsi

      Thank you George
      I try to share as much as I can because I know how it is to lack information, thank you for reading and for your comment, hope to see you soon here.

      Reply
  3. Dorothy

    Thanks for this information. I now understand the correlation between Gold and Dollar

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  4. Walter

    well said sis Ntombie. just a question, does your training also covers this topic or you only train on trading currencies?

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    • Ntombi Malatsi

      Hello Walter

      Yes it does, I usually do not blog about researched information but my own experiences. Thank you for stopping by and reading. Much appreciated.

      Reply
  5. frieda

    Thank you Ntombi.. Much appreciated . I’m a student of your blog

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    • Ntombi Malatsi

      Hello Frieda

      It makes me so happy every time you leave a comment. You are a regular reader here, no doubt about it. Thank you.

      Reply

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