{"id":22119,"date":"2025-08-19T13:49:43","date_gmt":"2025-08-19T20:49:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.cannontrading.com\/tools\/support-resistance-levels\/?p=22119"},"modified":"2025-08-19T13:49:43","modified_gmt":"2025-08-19T20:49:43","slug":"fomc-7","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cannontrading.com\/tools\/support-resistance-levels\/fomc-7\/","title":{"rendered":"FOMC, Gold, Cocoa, Levels, Reports; Your 5 Important Need-To-Knows for Trading Futures on August 20th, 2025"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n\n
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FOMC Minutes Tomorrow & Gold Bear Put Spread Insight<\/h1>\n

By John Thorpe, Senior Broker<\/em><\/h4>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n\n\n\n
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Markets have been calm so far this week (FOMC Minutes tomorrow)<\/p>\n

What goes up must come down?<\/p>\n

Does Newtons\u00a0law of Gravity\u00a0capsulized by the quote\u201d what goes up, must come down\u201d apply metaphorically to prices on assets?\u00a0this quote reminds us of the inherent predictability and order found in nature by earths gravitational pull.<\/p>\n

The question becomes, what pulls asset prices down? and how does the investor protect or benefit from forces pulling prices down?<\/p>\n

Since the forces pushing prices of assets lower are much harder to determine than a simple law like gravitational pull without doubt make what goes up must come down a truest statement, that doesn\u2019t mean we can\u2019t protect our investments or even benefit from selloffs of commodities, equities and other assets we hold.<\/p>\n

Gold will be a good example to explain 2 common risk management strategies since this asset has been range bound for some time now, having become comfortable in a relatively narrow price range since Memorial Day after a runup to start the year.<\/p>\n

One report indicates that gold opened at $2,633 per ounce on January 2, 2025, and as of August 15, 2025, it was trading around $3,383 per ounce, marking a 24.9% increase,<\/p>\n

Protecting your long gold futures contracts, GLD ETF or your personal gold stash you can use futures options as an insurance policy to cover your downside risk.<\/p>\n

You believe the price of gold is ready to fall on a breakout to the downside. You can buy Comex Gold Puts.\u00a0How Gold Puts Work:<\/p>\n

Buying a Put<\/p>\n

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Dec. Cocoa<\/h3>\n

December cocoa completed its first upside PriceCount objective and is correcting lower. IF the chart can resume its rally with new sustained highs, the second count would project a possible run to the 9379 area. It takes a trade above the June reactionary high to formally negate the remaining unmet downside objectives<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n\n\n\n
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The PriceCount study is a tool that can help to project the distance of a move in price. The counts are not intended to be an \u2018exact\u2019 science but rather offer a target area for the four objectives which are based off the first leg of a move with each subsequent count having a smaller percentage of being achieved. <\/em><\/p>\n

It is normal for the chart to react by correcting or consolidating at an objective and then either resuming its move or reversing trend. Best utilized in conjunction with other technical tools, PriceCounts offer one more way to analyze charts and help to manage your positions and risk. Learn more at www.qtchartoftheday.com<\/em><\/p>\n

Trading in futures, options, securities, derivatives or OTC products entails significant risks which must be understood prior to trading and may not be appropriate for all investors. <\/em><\/p>\n

Past performance of actual trades or strategies is not necessarily indicative of future results.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n\n\n\n
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Daily Levels for Aug 20th, 2025<\/h3>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n\n\n\n
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Economic Reports<\/h4>\n

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FOMC Minutes Tomorrow & Gold Bear Put Spread Insight By John Thorpe, Senior Broker Markets have been calm so far this week (FOMC Minutes tomorrow) What goes up must come down? Does Newtons\u00a0law of Gravity\u00a0capsulized by the quote\u201d what goes up, must come down\u201d apply metaphorically to prices on assets?\u00a0this quote reminds us of the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":19,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1243,1434,231,76,230,67,70,30,3,61,358,1334,234],"tags":[1646,171,627,36,73],"class_list":["post-22119","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bitcoin-futures","category-charts-indicators","category-commodity-brokers-2","category-commodity-trading-2","category-day-trading-2","category-future-trading-news","category-future-trading-platform","category-futures-broker-2","category-futures-exchange","category-futures-trading-2","category-futures-trading-education","category-gold-futures","category-trading-guide","tag-cocoa","tag-fomc","tag-futures","tag-gold","tag-trading-futures"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cannontrading.com\/tools\/support-resistance-levels\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22119","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cannontrading.com\/tools\/support-resistance-levels\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cannontrading.com\/tools\/support-resistance-levels\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cannontrading.com\/tools\/support-resistance-levels\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/19"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cannontrading.com\/tools\/support-resistance-levels\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22119"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.cannontrading.com\/tools\/support-resistance-levels\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22119\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22120,"href":"https:\/\/www.cannontrading.com\/tools\/support-resistance-levels\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22119\/revisions\/22120"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cannontrading.com\/tools\/support-resistance-levels\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22119"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cannontrading.com\/tools\/support-resistance-levels\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22119"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cannontrading.com\/tools\/support-resistance-levels\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22119"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}