We forecast that gold will trade close to $2,000 in 2023 because of the inability of the USD and Yields to move much higher. Both the US Dollar and Yields are leading indicators for gold. The USD will remain range-bound, Yields should not move substantially higher, particularly as 2023 progresses. The condition for our gold price forecast 2023 to be validated is that inflation expectations should not move structurally lower in 2023, signaling the end of the monetary tightening cycle. That’s why our gold price forecast for 2023 is $2,000.
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Ed. note: This gold price prediction was originally published in October of 2022. We continue to update this article, throughout 2023, as we see fit. Most recent chart updates: May 19th and August 6th, 2023.
Nowadays, anyone can create and share a gold price forecast, particularly on social media. The quality of forecasting, the forecasting methodology, the analysis framework don’t matter any longer. It’s about the clicks and likes.
Moreover, what we often find by searching for gold forecasts in search engines, are AI generated tables, with gold price calculations for the next years. These tables are so-called gold price predictions. Over here, at InvestingHaven.com, we are not using AI, nor are we here to create a presence on social media.
We think of a gold price forecast as an art and a skill. If you are looking to understand the true dynamics driving the gold price, you will like our gold price prediction methodology.
- 1. Three leading indicators for our gold price predictions
- 2. Our gold price prediction for 2023
- 3. Gold predictions vs. gold news
- 4. Gold charts that support our 2023 forecast
- 5. Gold’s leading indicator #1: Euro (USD)
- 6. Gold’s leading indicator #2: Bond yields
- 7. Gold’s leading indicator #3: Inflation
- 8. Gold price forecast 2023: conclusion
- 9. Gold or silver in 2023? Our answer: silver!
- 10. Predicting the price of gold: our track record
Complementary and new insights in August of 2023: We published a few must-read articles on gold, recently, which we recommend checking out. First, we made the point that gold is expected to move higher and set new ATH. We used very different data points in that article, compared to the data points in this current gold price forecast. Second, in our restricted research area, we shared quite some ratio charts with members of the Momentum Investing service. From those data points we derive the conclusion that gold is not overvalued, it is correctly valued and most likely even undervalued.
1. Three leading indicators for our gold price predictions
We apply a limited number of leading indicators for our gold price predictions:
- The Euro (inversely correlated to the USD).
- Bond yields.
- Inflation indicators.
All three combined help us forecast the future path of the price of gold. Moreover, it is by using these 3 indicators that we were able to accurately forecast annual gold price targets some 9 months prior to the market hitting them.
2. Our gold price prediction 2023 (update: August 4th)
Based on the long term charts which show gold’s dominant patterns we expect gold to consolidate in a wide range of 1,600 1,700 to 2,000 2,100 USD/oz (corrections made on August 4th). We expect a long term bullish reversal to sign up on the gold chart which will set the stage for gold to eventually break out to new ATH with $2,500 as a first bullish target and ultimately $3,000 to be hit (several years out).
InvestingHaven’s research team strongly believes that gold’s dominant trend is long term bullish. However, with monetary policies being restrictive as 2023 kicks off creating a disinflationary trend, we see gold consolidating in 2023 before hitting new ATH at a later point in time.
Comment added on Augsust 4th, 2023: As explained in the aforementioned article, most gold price predictions are U.S. centric (gold priced in USD). What many investors don’t realize is that gold has already made new ATH in terms of many leading world currencies.
Comment added on May 29th, 2023: We see sufficient signs that the Fed is about to end its tightening policy. This does not imply they will lower the Fed Funds Rate immediately. It implies it will not move higher. As the market is a forward looking mechanism, the market is already starting to factor in the fact that rates will eventually come in, as suggested by the 2 Year Treasury Yield divergence with the Fed Funds Rate.
Bull markets accelerate slowly over time, only to accelerate as they mature. With that in mind we predicted the following back in 2021:
We expect several spikes but the real breakout above gold’s former highs at $2,000 should be there no later than 2022.
While the breakout above $2,000 occurred in 2022, it did not hold because of monetary policy interventions. Disinflationary policies pushed commodities lower, still gold did not react to the inflationary result. This is the point: monetary policy became restrictive preventing precious metals from adjusting to the higher price points across the board.
3. Gold predictions vs. gold news
One common mistake is to look for clues about gold’s future price trend in the news.
It is tempting to read articles, but the point is that financial media’s economic model is primarily based on advertising revenue. In other words, headlines need to collect clicks in order for financial media to remain in existence. This does not mean that each and every gold article is bad or irrelevant, it implies that the essence of gold forecasting for gold investors is not to be found in financial media.
The point is this: gold news is lagging. Whatever appears in financial media is already priced in by sophisticated investors that had been adjusting their positions way before the ‘events’ appeared in media.
Here are some illustrations:
Gold Is No Longer a Good Hedge Against Bad Times
Even if it’s trading around a record high of $2,000 these days, gold is a little boring and likely to remain so for the foreseeable future. According to a new study from the National Bureau of Economic Research, gold prices have followed some fairly standard principles since at least 1990. To put it simply, gold prices decline when real interest rates rise. That is because gold itself has zero direct yield, so at higher interest rates the opportunity cost of holding gold goes up. In this regard, gold is like many other assets.
While we agree with this viewpoint, it does not help in understanding the future direction of the price of gold.
Here is another illustration:
Why gold will beat the stock market in the coming weeks
Again, while interesting and relevant, this is lagging, not helpful in understanding the future direction of gold.
4. Gold charts that support our 2023 forecast
The power of the pattern.
The long term gold price chart shows a long term bullish reversal between 2013 – 2019.
The price of gold created either a topping pattern in 2020/2022 or is in the process of creating a cup and handle. We cannot rely solely on the gold price chart to make the call which of the 2 scenarios are most likely. We need leading indicator to help us understand which path gold might take.
Comment added on Augsust 4th, 2023: Gold’s longest term chart looks powerful, even after 3 failed attempts to structurally break out above 2000 USD/oz, it looks like it will be a matter of time until it will work out.
The same findings that we get from the quarterly chart shown above are visible on the long timeframes of gold’s historic interactive chart.
Very important: the correlation between the price of gold and the monetary base M2.
As seen on below chart, the monetary base M2 continued its steep rise in 2021. It started stagnating in 2022. Historically, we see that gold and the monetary base move in the same direction. Gold tend to overshoot the monetary base but mostly it tends to happen temporarily.
The divergence between the price of gold and the monetary base is too wide right now. We expect the monetary base to remain flat or rise in 2023 and gold to eventually catch up.
Comment added on Augsust 4th, 2023: Gold would catch up because the divergence between the price of gold and M2 was out of balance. Both are more in synch now. This suggests that gold in nicely in synch with the monetary base. In other words, it will be the directly influencing markets like USD and Yields that will play a crucial role in determining the future gold price trend.
Several more data points will help us understand whether gold will consolidate with $2,000 as an upside projection for 2023. They are presented in the next few sections.
5. Gold’s leading indicator #1: Euro (USD)
Gold tends to go up when the Euro is in a bullish mindset. Consequently, when the USD is rising it puts pressure on gold.
We need to understand the secular patterns in order to get an understanding of gold’s projected path.
The longest term Euro chart has 2 targets: 0.9666 and 0.91 approx.
As seen, 0.9666 was achieved in September of 2022. This level coincides with the lows printed in 1989, a very important price point simply because it goes back so many years in time.
We don’t see the Euro falling below the 2001/2002 lows. This should prevent gold from starting a long term bear market.
Comment added on Augsust 4th, 2023: The Euro’s longest term chart suggests that the Euro against the USD is hitting resistance around 1.10 points. At the same time, we notice that volatility is declining which is good news for gold. The one scenario in which gold cannot shine is when the USD is too strong, rising too fast.
6. Gold’s leading indicator #2: Bond yields
Bond yields are inversely correlated to gold. They are not as strong a leading indicator as the Euro. Gold can rise when bond yields are flat or range bound.
Treasuries are negatively correlated to bond yields. Treasuries are positively correlated to the price of gold and it should be combined with the Euro trend to get the full picture. The long term 20 yr Treasuries chart (TLT) helps us understand how future trends might impact gold.
The long term TLT chart went from 180 points to 100 points in 24 months. This is historic, never happened before. We don’t expect Treasuries to continue their decline, we expect them to stabilize around current levels. Stated differently, there is more upside potential than downside potential in Treasuries.
So, in terms of impact of currencies on gold, we believe there is more upside potential than downside potential in the Euro (positively correlated to gold), although over the long term which means at least 12 months out.
Also, in terms of impact of Treasuries on gold, we believe there is more upside potential than downside potential in TLT.
Both should prevent gold from falling in a long bear market and should support our thesis of gold being range bound in 2023 before continuing its uptrend.
Comment added on Augsust 4th, 2023: Treasuries might start rising which is good news for gold because of the positive correlation between both assets. We believe the daily chart, below is suggesting some sort of bottoming formation.
7. Gold’s leading indicator #3: Inflation
Gold shines in an inflationary environment.
Inflation expectations expressed by TIP ETF came down in a dramatic fashion. We don’t expect this trend to continue in 2023 especially since monetary policies are close to being stretched in terms of rate hikes.
Moreover, TIP came down to a long term trendline (support) which connects the lows of the epic 2008/9 and 2020 market crashes.
We expect gold to be supported in 2023 by TIP which eventually will stabilize and start rising again over time.
Comment added on Augsust 4th, 2023: This thesis is confirmed so far, and TIP ETF has more upside potential.
Monetary inflation is easing but eventually it will move up again. The divergence between gold and the monetary base will moderate eventually.
When we look at the historic relationship between TIP, gold and stocks, we can see how a decline in TIP has led to lower gold and stock prices. However, as TIP is hitting long term support, it should suggest that gold and stocks will move higher in 2023, although it might happen at different points in time.
Comment added on Augsust 4th, 2023: Gold’s correlation between TIP, stocks, gold is still intact. The fact that TIP refuses to decline has positive implications for gold and stocks.
8. Gold price forecast 2023: conclusion
It is clear that we have sufficient confirmation from the gold chart patterns on all timeframes as well as gold’s leading indicators that gold may stabilize and remain range bound in 2023.
The U.S. Dollar does have less upside potential than downside potential in 2023. The same accounts for Treasuries. Inflation expectations should resume their uptrend at a certain point in 2023.
Our gold price forecast of $2,000 $2,100 at the higher side and not lower than $1,600 $1,700 on the lower side (not a 3 to 5 week closing basis) is reasonable (strike through and adjusted prices added on August 4th, 2023).
9. Gold or silver in 2023? Our answer: silver!
Should investors focus on gold or silver in 2023?
Our answer is very clear: silver!
That’s because of the much stronger fundamentals of silver compared to the ones of gold.
Also, one of our precious metals indicators, the gold to silver ratio, suggests that the downside in silver is limited and the upside huge. As explained in One Silver Chart Justifies ‘Buy The Dip’ For Long Term Positions:
In essence, any readings above or near 100 (gold price : silver price) are long term buy opportunities. It happened 2 times in history, a few weeks ago was the 3d time. We are confident that silver is a long term buy. Yes, buy the dip is justified (provided no leverage) regardless what happens to precious metals in the next few weeks and months.
The historic gold to silver ratio chart is featured below.
The silver price chart over 50 years says it all: a wildly bullish cup and handle formation that may get aggressive in 2023 in favor of silver.
For our Momentum Investing members, we created a selection of top silver miners:
Top Silvers Stocks For Long Term Portfolios >>
10. Predicting the price of gold: our track record
For 5 years in a row our gold forecasts were phenomenally accurate. They are all still available in the public domain on our blog, and the table below depicts the summary of each year’s gold forecast with the highs/ lows per year.
Interestingly, InvestingHaven’s research team has been spot-on with its gold price forecasts for 5 consecutive years. However, our gold forecast 2021 of 2200-2400 USD did not materialize. After 5 consecutive years of spot-on gold forecasts we did miss in 2021.
How comes?
In 2021 the intermarket readings were absolutely accurate; they justified a gold bull run. Bond yields did fall close to 40% at a certain point while the USD was rather flat. There was no gold bull run while any other point in time in the past gold would have been rallying in those circumstances.
This suggests that either our method stopped working OR our forecast is postponed. Eventually, it appeared that the market conditions which were created post Corona were so unique and extreme that all markets got messed up.
We remain convinced that our longstanding forecasted gold price targets will be hit, they may materialize with some delay.
This is an overview of our historical gold forecasts.| Forecasts from the past | Lows - highs in the past | Our accuracy |
|---|---|---|
| 2016 | bearish | $1,000 | $1,049 - $1,386 | Accurate |
| 2017 | bearish | $1,000 | $1,123 - $1,358 | Accurate |
| 2018 | bearish | $ 1,100 | $1,160 - $1,365 | Spot-on |
| 2019 | bullish | $1,550 | $1,265 - $1,556 | Spot-on |
| 2020 | bullish | $1,750 | $1,498 - $2,075 | Highly accurate |
| 2021 | bullish | $2,200 | $1,675 - $1,921 | Missed |
| 2022 | bullish | $2,000 | $1,626 - $1,801 | Missed |
| 2023 | bullish | $2,200 | $1,811 - $1,943 | Accurate |
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