Since 1223 and even 1217 lurks around, it can be a great scheeme. After every recalculation gold refuses to tag upper targets for days indicating that gate is open, it is accumulating the bull but it wants to play the trick before.
The trick can be simple. Throw out all longs by spiking to 1223 - 1217, when it people go short so gold can reach 1240, 1248.
Just a pure behavior and scheeme.