Looking at technical charts, Patton said gold is moving in an ever-tightening so-called triangle pattern with a progressive series of lower highs and higher lows.

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While this wide lower flag pattern had remained intact, a recent series of lower highs had begun to forecast the downside continuation was imminent.

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We began another series of higher lows after that (see Pattern 5).

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We have seen a series of lower highs and higher lows, creating this pattern of indecision that should be resolved by the end of this week.

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That, of course, was played at Madison Square Garden, continuing the pattern of the home team winning each of the first six games of the series.

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If he isn't reinstated, he will become the latest in a series of players to take the job on young and not last very long a worrying pattern.

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Rosetta brings two technologies to bear on sluggish drug development: chips that have been covered with a series of genes using what is essentially a modified inkjet printing process, and powerful computer algorithms that use pattern recognition technology to show how whole sets of genes are being turned on and off.

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