Overview: Gold isn’t Stalling, it’s Loading...

Things have seemed a bit messy for gold lately: momentum getting shaky, traders unsure whether this is a top or the start of something bigger... But zoom out even slightly, and the story becomes stupidly simple.

First, after price broke an important resistance and accelerated upwards (Check my analysis before that tradingview.com/chart/XAUUSD/1Ta2tWfm-GOLD-Overview-Rose-sharply-and-broke-important-resistance/), we get a strong impulsive leg, a steep ascending flagpole.

Then price pulled back in a controlled, downward-sloping channel. Lower highs, lower lows, perfectly respecting trendlines... Just a controlled cooldown after aggressive expansion.
Price then slipped into consolidation, where nothing seemed to happen. That’s the phase where traders panic, second-guess themselves, and misread a simple pause as a full trend reversal.

Compression ➝ expansion.

And then, out of nowhere, the breakout.. right when traders are drained and doubting the trend. Price breaks out of that range, straight into another impulsive leg. That breakout alone confirms the continuation.

BUT THE BEST PART?
After the breakout, what do we get?
Another flag. A cute mini one. This smaller flag is not reversal pressure. Just a pause before the next expansion. The same continuation logic applies: strong leg up, controlled corrective structure, and now the market is coiling again, preparing for its next push.

Traders call this noise, but it’s just the market doing the same thing on a smaller scale. Corrections inside corrections. Fractals. Order. This mini flag is nothing more than momentum reloading. Compression before another expansion.

THE SAME SCRIPT PLAYING OUT AGAIN.
This is where most traders get confused. They zoom too far in, see little candles chopping around, and think the trend is done. But when you actually look at structure, it becomes clear: the market simply created a smaller bullish flag on top of the larger one. A mini-correction sitting right above the breakout. The exact behavior a trending market should show: momentum, pullback, momentum.
We have a pattern of impulse → flag → impulse → flag.

And historically, structurally, this setup continues until the flag finally fails.
This one hasn’t failed yet.
So my expectation?
A breakout form here and continuation bullish. One more beautiful leg up at minimum.