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MACD bullish cross on Gold

On Gold the macd bullish cross showed up 104 times. The target came first 39% of the time, the stop 50%, and 11% went nowhere within 12 candles.

Counted on Gold futures: daily candles from January 2015 and hourly candles from September 2024.

By timeframe

TimeframeFoundTarget firstStop firstWent nowhere
Daily4947%45%8%
Hourly5533%55%13%

Gold against the rest

ChartsFoundTarget firstStop firstWent nowhere
Gold10439%50%11%
All Commodities charts40640%51%9%
Every market58,27536%55%9%

Year by year

YearFoundTarget firstStop first
2016650%50%
2017367%33%
2018425%50%
2019633%67%
2020560%40%
2021540%20%
2022650%33%
2023944%56%
20242635%50%
20253336%55%

The last 8 times

Counted by the Trading Class research engine on real past candles: entry at the signal candle's close, target 1.5 × ATR(14), stop 1 × ATR(14), 12 candles to decide, a candle that touches both counts as the stop. How we count. Past data, not a forecast and not advice.

What the macd bullish cross is

Below zero, the MACD line crossed above its signal line.

Picture a sled sliding downhill that starts to slow down. It is still going down, just less fast. MACD is a gauge that shows this kind of speeding up and slowing down, and a bullish cross below zero hints the fall is losing speed.

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Other patterns on Gold

Inside bar · Stochastic bearish cross · Spinning top · Stochastic bullish cross · MACD bearish cross · Doji · RSI overbought drop · Volume profile bounce · Volume profile rejection · EMA 9/21 bearish cross · all of them

The macd bullish cross elsewhere

Silver · Crude oil · Copper · Natural gas · Sensex · Nifty 50 · Dow Jones · S&P 500 · Nikkei 225 · Sony · GBP/USD · EUR/JPY

Questions

How often does the macd bullish cross work on Gold?

In 104 cases on Gold, the target (1.5 × ATR) came before the stop (1 × ATR) 39% of the time and the stop came first 50%; 11% went nowhere within 12 candles.

What is the macd bullish cross?

Below zero, the MACD line crossed above its signal line.