The divergence between gold and the broad stock indices is highly encouraging that the precious metals have put in at least a short term bottom, and may threaten to break out over the next couple of weeks.
This is still a very slow time of the year, and seasonally weak for precious metal investments. But favorable winds are just around the corner.
On a breakout, the intermediate target for gold will be around $1755, with some pauses and at least one larger pullback along the way.