As I can see on the XAUUSD hour chart the daily open for today was lower than the last day which can be a good signal for a south direction of the market.
Now when focusing on the chart you can easily get the signal form the red down arrow which shown above the price candles to indicate a probably of bearish direction on the upcoming day.
And about the strong levels that the price may need to fight in order to break it you can monitor that there is a strong support located at the price 1216.4 and I think it is hard for the price to break it down then I guess I will use it as a primary take profit level for any short positions that I may enter.
I also always keep an eye on the check and trader indicators to help me filtering the fake trend signals and they have to show a red line for the check and a red color for the trend indicator before I decide to enter the short positions.
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