SHORTS are Caught - They Need to Now Cover Going into OCTGold has big upside in the short-term for these two main reasons. First, a large number of traders went short gold at $1,700-$1,800 on the false belief that there would be a tapering from the Fed. However, now that we know the Fed was full of it and continued their $85 billion a month QE, they will be covering their shorts. The US is also set to hit the debt ceiling yet again, this time in either mid-October or early-November. Another debt-ceiling crisis like the one we saw in 2011 could send gold through its 200-day moving average of $1,484.