Wealth Creation Through Natural Resources
Gold futures have pulled back nearly $60/oz from last Thursday’s parabolic blow-off high, retracing roughly 38.2% of the entire breakout since late-January: Gold (Daily) The $1190-$1200 area now becomes important support; the $60 shakeout since Thursday’s high is standard price action … Continued
A lot happened this week in the precious metals & mining space. A quick summary of the big events: Gold finished the week $65/oz higher and rallied as high as $1263.90/oz on Thursday, reaching its highest level in US dollar … Continued
After rallying ~44% in 14 trading sessions the gold miners (GDX) are showing some signs of exhaustion: GDX (Daily) GDX printed a ‘shooting star’ candlestick following what could very well be an ‘exhaustion gap’. A few clues that today’s … Continued
Some stats about the current rally in the gold miners (GDX): +37.50% in 13 trading sessions GDX has gone from 3 sessions dipping below the lower 2-std. deviation Bollinger Band (January 19-21) to 3 consecutive closes above the upper 2-std. … Continued
Gold finished higher by more than 5% on the week and the gold miners as represented by the GDX rallied an eye-popping 20% for the week. There are signs of over-exuberance beginning to show up in the gold space beginning … Continued
Normally one would think that a 7.34% rally on enormous volume would be a bullish sign for a stock or sector. However, the last couple of times that GDX posted a huge rally on 120+ million shares price was considerably … Continued
One month into the new year the gold miners (GDX) are the 2nd best performing equity sector of 2016 (utilities are the top performing sector) with a 3.6% gain. However, considerably more impressive is the 18.15% rally in the two … Continued
The gold miners (GDX) rallied for a 6th consecutive trading session today making for a 14.5% gain since last Tuesday’s all-time low at $12.40: GDX (Daily) In the last few years a six session winning streak in GDX has happened … Continued
Gold in US dollar terms is making fresh 3-month highs this morning as it looks increasingly like a rounding bottom pattern was completed between November and January: Meanwhile, the gold miners (GDX) are rising for the 5th consecutive session … Continued
The gold miners (GDX) have spent 6 months bouncing along the bottom testing the ~$13 level: GDX (Daily) There are a few things that stand out about this chart: A huge amount of volume has been churned in the … Continued