Gold & Silver Crash. What's Ahead?

Market Update - Friday, 30 Jan

Precious metals and the broader metals and commodities markets have experienced a collapse. After an extremely robust run over the last three days, the entire gain of that period has been given up. The fall from the top in gold prices is dramatic, dropping about $600 from 5,600 to near the $5,000 level.

The main trigger for this volatility is that President Trump is likely announcing the next Fed chair tonight. This announcement is critical as it hinges upon whether the incoming chair is dovish or hawkish, how they will handle interest rates, and how the balance sheet will be managed.

Markets have come off across the board, with gold, silver, metals, and commodities all down following a steep run-up.

• Looking at the Nifty charts, the Nifty opened weak but recovered to close down 0.39%.

• Nifty Junior was down 0.83%, mid-caps were flat, and small caps gained 0.85%, looking better than large and mid-caps for the first time as their short-term trend turned positive.

• Nifty Bank was down 0.58%, though momentum trends remain positive.

• Gold saw a 6% drop, turning its short-term trend negative while mid and long-term remain positive.

• Silver was smashed down 14%, also turning negative in the short term. However, the previous run-up was so significant that a 14% fall only brings prices back to where they were five days ago.

Other Market Triggers

• On the heat map, stocks that had been running up like Coal India, ONGC, ICICI Bank, HDFC Bank, Tata Consumer, and Hind Copper were all down.

• Hindalco and Power Grid also saw declines. Conversely, Nestle, Maruti, Titan, M&M, TVS Motors, and SBI were up.

• It appears no specific sector is expecting much from the upcoming budget. Hind Zinc, Vedanta fell 11% and 12%, while Adani, Solar Cement, and Jindal Steel were also down.

• Gains in Bajaj, Hyundai, Britannia, and United Spirits suggest the FMCG sector is primarily green as capital rotates toward defensive stocks.

• The mover of the day was Idea, up 11.1% on news of a 45,000 crore investment plan for 5G network growth.

U.S. Market Updates

• In the US, markets fell in the previous session with the Nasdaq down almost 0.5%. Significant damage was seen in big names: Microsoft dropped nearly 10% and ServiceNow fell 9.9%, while Intuit, Salesforce, and Altria Group also declined. Some of these may be part of the Weekend Investing US stock strategy, though these are not recommendations.

• Notable movers included Meta, which rose nearly 10% post-results, while Microsoft fell nearly 10% following its own results.

What to watch next ?

• The Bitcoin chart is looking extremely dangerous, forming a head and shoulders pattern. If it stays below approximately 80,000, the pattern target could be near 40,000. This suggests a massive pattern breakdown as liquidity moves out of crypto, metals, and US markets due to high uncertainty regarding the Fed Chair.

• The market has remained range-bound for almost seven days, but both short and long-term outlooks remain positive.

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