Wealth Creation Through Natural Resources
GDX is up nearly 6% this week. Is this rally for real? From all indications the answer is a resounding YES! Here’s why: The chart pattern breakout from the multi-week ascending triangle is the real deal and targets a move … Continued
How can a .42% sell-off in the S&P 500 be considered bearish? After all, such a small move falls well within the realm of noise. I would almost always not place too much weight in a trading session with such … Continued
Wednesday morning we highlighted mega uranium producer Cameco (CCJ, CCO.TO) and the potential for multiple chart pattern breakouts along with improving fundamentals. Since then Cameco shares have rallied ~10% and broken out above a 13-month downtrend line while completing a rounding … Continued
When David Einhorn speaks, I listen: “Bottom-up: Short candidates are easy to find, but as noted above, the opportunity set on the long side is quite constrained. Most of the investment theses we have reviewed over the past several months … Continued
The recent outperformance of the gold miners (GDX) relative to gold itself has been quite striking: My primary takeaways/interpretations of this recent outperformance are as follows: Investors are betting that gold is at the end of a cyclical bear … Continued
I came across two powerful China charts from J.P.Morgan this weekend: During the last decade the correlation between Chinese monetary conditions/nominal GDP growth and commodities is almost uncanny; the CRB bottomed at the exact month that China monetary conditions bottomed … Continued
OPEC crude oil production surged by roughly 1 million barrels per day in March after consecutive months of decline: Meanwhile, there is some question about US production declines as the data doesn’t paint an entirely clear picture. Production is … Continued
Which of these 5 charts doesn’t fit with the others?… Bloomberg Economic US Surprise Index Yardeni Global Growth Barometer & S&P 500 Monthly Core Retail Sales S&P 500 US Inflation Rate What do you guys … Continued
GDX is on the brink of one of most anticipated “breakouts” we’ve seen in quite a while: There is a lot going on in the above chart and the situation is by no means clear. Here is some of … Continued
Oil services stocks as represented by the OIH (roughly 1/3 of the OIH is comprised of two names, HAL and SLB) have been hot for the past month, gaining nearly 20% since the March 16th low: This is the 3rd … Continued