Despite that the dollar has been rising and rising , for gold we will just need to worry about treasury bonds for most of the time and the dollar directly affecting currency pairs like GBP/USD that seems to be pinned right at a bottom because of dollar strength or the Euro . 1700 is always a very attractive price for gold as golds mean price is 1800 . This is a simple , logical idea just going of the yellow metals mean price ($1800)