Identifying patterns in gold can be highly evident if one knows where to look. Since gold is primarily driven by a select few (banks mostly), they tend to make their movements within the gold market in a similar fashion, even more so during bull markets.
We can identify 3 movements in the gold price during recent consolidation periods:
1. Price decline from spike high in a 5 peak/point formation
2. Downsloping support in a lower low fashion
3. Finally.. The "Basing" period before resuming the uptrend
This is in conjunction with sentiment in gold being usually bearish or neutral at the very least.
It would appear that the gold price is now in its 3rd basing period right here and now...