Category: GDX

Mining for Gold

With Friday’s big move in the shiny yellow stuff, a good deal of noise is being made about the future of the gold sector. Recent price action suggests that this is a rally in a bear market, and we’re approaching overhead resistance. Moreover, the recent rise was substantiated by weak volume, suggesting little conviction amongst…


Weekend Review

Not much has changed, even with Friday’s +6% close. Even fewer stocks breaking to new highs. Optimistically, a couple stocks are climbing above the 50dma. Gold showed good strength, and GDX was up 26%. But gold is approaching resistance, so stay cautious. The market is still terribly weak. Gold miners may offer some upside potential,…


Blamo!

The market shat on the bulls Friday, which made tons of cheddar in SRS, SKF, TWM, DXD. UDN, FXF and FXY are trading at all time highs, and continue to show strength as the markets weaken. Commodities were mixed as DBA moved lower w/ USO, and the precious metals IAU and SLV remain unchanged. GDX,…


Before the Open

It has been a helluva week… Finally found a good pot dealer in the neighborhood, some super duper smoke, so I’ve been doing a lot of photo editing and not too much trading. I have a comment from a wise trader who caught the huge reversal in financials trading UYG, a solid counter trend move…


Market Metaphors for the Maligned and Miserable Market Mavens

This past weekend I got drunker than the American consumer, only to find myself locked out of a friend’s apartment like a depositor in a bank run. Like Mike Shedlock, I rang the bells and made some calls, but too no avail, for my cries fell upon unattenuated ears, similar to the monkeys on Capitol…


Pitiful Pitfalls Prevent Profits

Trading has many advantages, but articulating long term strategies is not one of them… Though I expect good things from the precious metals sector over the next year, today is the second day of high volume downwards action, confirming my thesis that there is a short term top in gold ~900. I’ve sold all my…


Interfestering

It has hardly been a few days since I posted my bullish thoughts on GLD, but what a difference a few days can make… With such a sharp run up in GLD, things looked good this morning as it continued to make new highs… but there was a sharp sell off today, but more importantly,…


Mid-Day Musing

Surprise surprise, precious metals and related miners are up, retail, financials and real estate are down, and both the Swiss Franc and Yen continue to show strength, even though the market is posting a moderate move to the upside. A tip of the hat to Mike Shedlock, who has a great post over at MGETA…