Wealth Creation Through Natural Resources
The gold miners took a beating today in the form of a 7.90% decline on more than 2x average daily volume. Aside from the already mentioned bearish implications of a decline of this magnitude, the backtest results for declines on … Continued
We have not made it a secret that we have interpreted the recent volatile, high volume trading range in the gold miners (GDX) to be a bearish prelude to a summer correction. After more than doubling from the all-time low made … Continued
The US Dollar Index is rallying above 94.50 this morning following a very strong retail sales report. The US dollar has formed a V-bottom since briefly falling below 92 earlier in this month – a major test near the ~95 … Continued
After today’s 6.41% drubbing the gold miners have essentially gone nowhere in the last three weeks despite traversing a nearly 20% range and making a 21-month high last week. Even as price has remained range-bound, volatility is breaking out to … Continued
Commercial speculators have amassed a more than $38 billion net notional short position in gold futures which is the largest short position by the commercials since September 2012: While the $38 billion short position is impressive it is still … Continued
Yesterday we asked the question “Sell in May and Go Away in the Goldies?” and today we saw some of the most aggressive selling and bearish candlesticks we have seen in the mining sector in quite some time. Today’s action … Continued
There is a lot of talk about “sell in May and go away” every year when spring begins to fade into summer. This year is no different especially after today’s bearish reversal from outside the upper Bollinger Band in the … Continued
A couple of days ago I wrote that if gold was still in a longer term bear market (which began at the August 2011 top) then the acceptance stage of the current rally would mark a short/intermediate term top. However, … Continued
The gold miners as represented by GDX printed a bearish reversal candlestick today after making a new 20-month high earlier in the trading session: GDX (Daily) This particular pattern is especially bearish for the following reasons: A new high … Continued
After a period of relative calm precious metals and markets as a whole are entering a potentially intriguing phase. Here’s what I mean: After moving higher in nearly a straight line for the last two months U.S. equities are … Continued