The overnight Comex Futures market just watched 4 Billion worth of Gold Contracts get liquidated, in a low liquidity market causing a Flash Crash. This was 24000 Gold Contracts. You can read about that in the attached chart at the bottom.
So what happened? The US Dollar Index (DXY) spiked blue on chart. This caused the price of Gold to go down, as well as the EURO. Incidentally 58% on the DXY is made up of the EURO (so it went down).
So all the buyers that bought the EURO and Gold, Silver Friday after the drop caused by positive Non-Farm Payrolls just got cleaned out. This is predictable - frankly the last place you want to be is where everyone else is. The banks (Market Movers) see the orders and just take them away, then go the direction you expect.
In this case you can see the high volume node which is also a 50% retracement - so this does make for a decent long.
All things being equal these contacts in EURO have been purchased (at lower prices) so the expectation is both Gold/EURO will head higher.
