The Fed Hike Plunge

Many sectors began to sell off with the interest rate hike Wednesday.  Some were sectors we expected to sell off, others were expected to snap back. Will we get the snap back on Thursday and Friday? Let’s discuss what we should be looking for.

 

SPX – From Monday, the markets were outside the B.B. on a weekly basis, so I would have expected a dip by the end of the week.

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USD popped to new highs on day 4 of a new daily cycle. Since the USD is only on day 4, it can run much higher, but it should be close to the timing that it would begin to look for an ICL.  That would lead us to conclude that this could become L.T.  We’ll have to wait and see on that one. 

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From November 19 –  My 3 price targets. EDIT:  The USD tagged  $103.10 this a.m.

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WTIC – Oil has done what technically is called a false break out, but that doesn’t mean that it is bearish.

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XLE – Energy got over charged, and is due for a pullback. Maybe a back test?

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GOLD, SILVER, and MINERS

 

I don’t want to sugar coat it, Gold needs  an upside reversal Thursday or Friday in my opinion. Gold looked great going into October and November, it was acting like a normal Bull Market, but ever since the election?

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Something seems to have changed. I have been looking for a move above the 10sma to signal a daily cycle low, and Gold has been too weak to even bounce.

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GOLD–  Stockcharts drew their chart for Gold & Silver wrong on Wednesday.  Ignore that daily candle. Gold never even closed above the 10sma, so it is believed that a dcl has not formed yet. I don’t know how many times I’ll have to say this, but Gold is way overdue for a swing low. Silver still held up well above the November lows so far.

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GOLD – There is a continuation pattern that causes a burst , and would lead right to the lows 🙁  I do not attempt to short what was considered a bull market, so I will just continue to look for a reversal on Thursday or Friday, but I will be ready to stop out of whatever positions break below my stops.  I can always jump back in if a reversal comes on Friday.

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SILVER –  Stockcharts Silver chart for Dec 14 was wrong, showing it up for the day, so I drew in the drop. EDIT: It broke the lows overnight with a 3%+ drop.

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SILVER DAILY –  Silver sold off too, but it didn’t break the lows. ( EDIT: Overnight the lows were taken out)

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GDX –  GDX broke to new lows. We need a reversal Thursday or Friday. The good thing would be that Miners and Gold are now in SYNC, and since Gold didn’t break above the 10sma, it would seem that GOLD is very overdue for a DCL.  The bad news, this could be a trend change from Bull Market to Bear market.

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So we have to see what Thursday brings, but in my opinion, we are now at a very critical point in the possible recovery of this sell off. A normal correction can drop as deeply as we have seen here, but time-wise? A correction should not drag out over extended periods of time, and this does concern me. It can go from a normal correction to bear market sell off. 

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WHAT AM I LOOKING FOR THURSDAY & FRIDAY?

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 I had some charts that I had put together for last weekends report, but I didn’t have time to discuss them and still get that report out for Saturday, so I will share them here.  I was trying to show that at this point,  we need to stop trending lower and break out upside. This is what I was looking for going into this Fed week.

 

GDX WEELY From Dec 8th – In a bull market, price often rides up the 10 weekly moving average. In a correction it can break down, but you need it to recover soon. With each daily cycle low, we can go long and hope to break out back above the 10ma, if an ICL is in place. Rejection at that point is usually the daily cycle high.  Another failure could indicate that we are now simply in a bear market sell off.

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NEM, ABX, and GG are a large component of the GDX, so I have been watching those each day.

 

NEM – The 50sma on a daily is similar to the 10ma on a weekly. It acts as support for the Bull move and resistance on a sell off.  Wednesday was kind of important to me. It is not too late to break above it this week, but Fed Wednesday did not provide a much needed boost.

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ABX – Isn’t it amazing how these stocks work there way right to the 50sma on Fed Wednesday?  ABX was also rejected.

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WHY AM I STILL INVESTED?

 

Some miners are acting better than others. Some juniors that I have pointed out in my reports, have been acting correctly.  I Bought GPL at the OCT lows, and that is still “The low”, so I have been patiently waiting for a break out or a break down. Silver broke its lows this a.m., so I may end up taking profits today.

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AG was holding up well too, but it needs to reverse direction soon to stay healthy. This is a weekly chart, so Thursday and Friday are important here.

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DRD –  This was attempting a break out this week, and Monday and Tuesday were strong.  Fed Wednesday caused a reaction back under the 10 weekly ma.  The week is not over, so I am still watching for a possible reversal higher Thursday and Friday.

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VGZ–  So far, VGZ is still doing ok, but Thursday and friday tell the story on a weekly chart.

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DEC 9th –  CDE was nearing the top of the channel.  Would the FED MTG push it to a break out or stall it?  CDE is actually 10 cents higher than it was on Dec 9th, but the next 2 days are pretty important in my opinion. This could drop to the bottom of this channel if selling continues.

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We need a reversal Thursday or Friday to give the weekly charts a bullish look. The first 2 Gold charts in this section telll the whole story so far.

Thankfully we were not holding leverage in that sell off for NUGT & JNUG. It exaggerates the move and the emotional toll. The above report pretty much lays out what I am looking for going forward. Without a reversal, it would appear that these down channels are now part of a trend change. The normal correction of 50% to 61.8% pull back has been broken. It doesn’t make sense to me, with Yellen talking about increased threats of inflation and Metals prices rising quickly, but so far Gold struggles to even bounce at this point.  Yesterday the Markets were selling off, Oil sold off, and precious metals sold off, but CLF, AKS, CLD, MTL, SHLO, STLD, and a few others closed green. The next place to invest in may be in the pull backs of these companies, apparently ones that would benefit from an infrastructure rebuild. Time will tell.

 

~ALEX

217 replies
  1. Rm
    Rm says:

    This is really incredibly dissapointing. So much better stuff to trade than these metals that have never left me anything but dissapointed. Hopefully a few of my stops don’t get hit. Hope everyone hangs in ok in what looks like a bad day. I just don’t see a hope till yen reverses.

    • Cason
      Cason says:

      $$ highest since 2003, $/Euro almost to parity, can’t believe that gravity won’t grab that one, even if it’s just a quick touch. Clearly don’t need to remind you about the Yen chart.

      • Mark
        Mark says:

        We thought the clear and convincing evidence was that the bull was back. Technical and fundamentals were very much on our side. Very unusual for an index to triple off the lows and not be in a bull. Sentiment is still astoundingly bullish. We may have to find ourselves in a reverse situation where now the clear and convincing evidence is that we are in a bear market and that the fundamentals also point to that before sentiment does a U turn and cools off considerably. Just like the polls which were dead wrong on Trump, I’m not so sure we can trust the so called official sentiment numbers. Rather I trust the gold web sites and the posts therein which are now only starting to question this bull. And some are buying DUST which may be a very good bet at this point. This decline is unfolding very quickly which has the feel of a termination move. I’ll note the DOW in 1932 lost almost 90% (like the PM market now) of its valve and then on a dime catapulted from that low only to move back down significantly threatening to double bottom. It didn’t but instead turned on a dime again and didn’t look back. I just wonder whether something similar is unfolding here.

  2. Cason
    Cason says:

    I hope lots of folks were listening when I talked about having a hedge into the Fed. This is a crazy move. Even in this new bear, we should get a bounce so I’m moving to a pretty tight trailing stop (3%) so any upside reversal takes that trade off. Best case we eventually climb past the 10 day so I can put that money to work in JNUG!

  3. Cason
    Cason says:

    Fundamentally, even 3 rate hikes puts US at 1.25-1.5% on the overnight Fed Funds rate next year. Sure, that does scream the 10-year higher but TEN YEARS is a long time! I don’t hold stuff for more than a couple months. 😛 Anyway, if inflation runs 2%, on the overnight that’s a -.5% real return. That’s just math…

    • chartfreak1
      chartfreak1 says:

      Maybe they’ll do it this time, but remember last year? The Fed said that they’d hike 4 times in 2016.

      They hikes once. Thats just “seeing is believing” 🙂

  4. R Byram
    R Byram says:

    the premarket is below my stops. I have one Canadian position and I can’t trade it in the pre-market. Any suggestions? should I just go to a market order stop?

    • chartfreak1
      chartfreak1 says:

      NAK is a bull chart, I personally wouldn’t want to see it break the 20sma , but if you bought yesterday, your stop should be higher. It may be considered to have more reserves than just Gold & Silver, so it could continue to act bullishly like AKS, X, ETC.

      That said, I find it very difficult to answer that when people ask, because they
      should know where their It depends on where you got
      in, and other factors.

      If you bought at 30 cents or 80 cents, you can decide what you are willing to give up as it drops down toward your purchase price. So it is a tough question for me to just throw out a stop price, when I don’t really know all of the factors that I go by when I set my stop. I hope that helps, but it is a tough question.

  5. Simonsays
    Simonsays says:

    Moral of the story for myself is that technicals need to supersede cycle analysis. The down trend on the daily chart has been alive and well since August and my policy is normally not to trade downtrends. Lesson learned…..again. Ugh..

    • chartfreak1
      chartfreak1 says:

      Amen, I have learned that lesson in the past. I have seen cycles stretch tooo many times, and with Gold….seriously, we havent even seen a break above the 10sma on day 45?

      I always do better when I use T/A , but cycles at normal times do help with timing a lot.
      This is not a normal move.

    • Tammie
      Tammie says:

      Simon, I’ve been thinking the same thing……lesson learned for me to….going to start paying more attention to technicals, larger chart patterns…..hindsight….. 🙂

  6. deshy
    deshy says:

    Strange?!? GPL down by 2% at open with Silver down a whopping 6%??? I’m not betting on anything here and my stops are in but there’s definitely shenanigans at play. ;-)–maybe even manipulators! (whoever those are)

    • R Byram
      R Byram says:

      I think GPL is being supported by the owners. They just closed one of their two mines and the story is for much lower revenue this year. It just doesn’t make sense that the stock stayed this high with the volume. They have a big war chest so I think someone, somewhere is mopping up. The bad news was warned in the last 10Q and it came to fruition a week or two ago, so of all these risky plays this one is the worst.

  7. Mark
    Mark says:

    From another site- people are now getting angry and down right nasty. Unfortunately, what we need to see. But, not here please.

    • Glmus
      Glmus says:

      Maybe a bottom? My acct is not as bad as it was after the first 5 minutes. I have only TRX in the green, not surprising. I am starting to get a few pre-buys (my hourly indicators are turning up, but no crossovers to buy). JNUG still -10%, a nasty number. Hanging in, hoping this is the final flush. The first hour is often the worst.

    • Tammie
      Tammie says:

      One of the things I love about Chart Freak….everyone here is not only respectful of each other but also quite encouraging…:)

    • pankef
      pankef says:

      Human nature is such that people will look for someone to lay blame on so it doesn’t surprise me. Alexs’ analysis has been thorough, concise, clear and most importantly, he has taken a stand (albeit hasn’t worked out well ) which is a lot more than I can say with other advisors.

  8. onegoal
    onegoal says:

    still think the end of year, tax loss selling will kick in for metal stocks-people may have been waiting for bounce, now price action may force their hands in a race to beat the rush. need to see some divergences between stocks vs metal

      • onegoal
        onegoal says:

        I’m thinking more people with gains in non-metal stocks will sell and use losses in any metal stocks to offset those gains. only those that bot in jan/feb have gains at this point in time generally speaking(viewing indexes gdx etc) – and present company from this great site excluded of course …

  9. Bill
    Bill says:

    What IF? What IF this is the start of an “Island Reversal” pattern in GDX! I could see it happening. Everyone is at wits end, ready to pack it in! Cycle exhausted! Even in BEAR markets there are advances. Of course if GDX continues lower, then that idea is out the window………

  10. Markm
    Markm says:

    Terrible day. judging from my emotions the low is close. This feels worse than the bottom in 2015. Dollar tagging the 103 level again. Yen is relentless. Yet when I look at almost all charts they all scream to hang on as the extremes are so dramatic. Bonds up today so maybe that’s a good sign.

  11. Glmus
    Glmus says:

    I am under water, but own SINO +18% – keeping my hopes up. Hoping for a DRYS to the upside, maybe 100%. 🙂
    A ray of gold hope: Check out the 10 min charts of ABX, AEM, and NEM. I have no hourly buys, only these rays.

    • Glmus
      Glmus says:

      A couple more gold rays on 10 min charts: GDX, GDXJ, DRD (own), PAAS (own), VALE (!), MUX (own) is now green. However, no hourly buys anywhere.

      • Glmus
        Glmus says:

        My gold/silver rays above are pulling back as is my acct. Hope they are simply testing their lows. Breaking them would not be nice. OOPS, GDX just broke its low. Sad!!!!!

  12. Ken
    Ken says:

    “Crude Oil has done a false BO, but that does not mean it is bearish”…….I agree Alex.
    The Aug. low was the last ICL (wave 2) the next ICL is due around Feb. 2017 I strongly believe that ICL will NOT break the Aug. low…..Higher ICL Lows.

  13. Tammie
    Tammie says:

    Don’t know what it is about WTI….I wanted to get it the past few days but held off….now it’s up nicely today…

  14. Carlnetscouts
    Carlnetscouts says:

    Silver hit a 16$ target that one of my guys had. Maybe that will stop the decline. Pretty ugly and quite surprising.

  15. R Byram
    R Byram says:

    I’m going to back away from this style of trading for a bit. Try and shake my head and get my feet back on the ground.
    Bye all, happy trading

  16. ben lockhart
    ben lockhart says:

    Alex – many of the biotech stocks look ready for a bounce.. perhaps a little coverage on these would help to ease the pain from the PM stocks? JUNO, HALO, LJPC, BMRN, CELG all look good here.. any chance you could cast your eyes over this sector for the next report? thanks!

    • chartfreak1
      chartfreak1 says:

      Cycles are acting a little out of whack here. Hard to read using what we usually do for confirmation.

      We never got a confirmed daily cycle with a trend line break on GDX ( we only had the close over the 10sma), so theoretically, this could be a continuation of that daily cycle, the same as Gold ( Which never even got above the 10sma).

      As for the E.W. count – easier for me to see in hindsight.

  17. ray
    ray says:

    hi Alex,
    for your info
    in case there’s a big difference in a gold or silver future after 2 pm NY time, they take the quote of 1.30 pm NY time
    so that’s why these qoutes are not always right
    Hope that makes sense what I’m writing here

    • chartfreak1
      chartfreak1 says:

      If you are talking about the stockcharts charts, that is not what the problem was.

      They showed silver up yesterday the 14th and gold as a reversal off of the lows that it did print post fed..
      That didnt happen at any time during yesterdays trading, I believe it was a misprint.

      On other days, it has been correct in the past as the 4 p.m. close.

  18. Nando
    Nando says:

    GLL is an ETF that is 2x the inverse of the daily performance of gold. May be it helps to finde a bottom in gold. Sometimes I use

    it as a hedge. But not this time, I am in cash and have no positions yet. MT and LT I am bullish on gold. But I am patient and will not buy in a falling knive.

      • Nando
        Nando says:

        You can see the gold chart inverse. It may help to get a better or other view what happens. The question: Do you believe this chart can go more upside?

        • chartfreak1
          chartfreak1 says:

          It is only midday, but I do like the reversal candle on GLD, and GLL at the top.

          If they could hold here or improve, the selling could be exhausted. Too early to call at this point.

          • chartfreak1
            chartfreak1 says:

            Yes, for short term traders, they will often take a trade if (after a bit of a drop) a candle reverses to the upside – taking back more than 1/2 of that reversal candles day back. The stop goes under the low of that day. Profits can be taken 1 or 2 days later.

            A move like you said would likely be the start of a good relief rally.

  19. The Seer
    The Seer says:

    Hi all, soooo bad it must be the bottom . . . . I have to hold and wait until miners
    go back up. Ce la vie.

  20. Glmus
    Glmus says:

    It may amount to nothing, but I am seeing some rays of light on golds. I have lots of hourly pre-buys and an hourly buy on NAK. CLF and VALE are green. Also, DUST and JDST just gave their first 10 min. sell of the day. My acct is off its lows. This may be a failed short term rally, but it is the best I can do.

  21. Ann
    Ann says:

    I’m not sure what NAK has underground, but I sure hope they don’t find gold or silver and tank this stock : )

  22. The Seer
    The Seer says:

    Manufacturing inventory report is up. We should start getting more inflation news.
    So hard to sit through these lows this especially when we all know it’s manipulation.
    The bright side is weak hands get shaken off the bull so the market is stronger . . . .
    Thanks Carinetscouts for the good news. It has to turn up eventually!
    Foreign countries will export well with lower currency but can’t pay their debt
    in higher USdollars. This will bring the global depression must faster the longer the
    US dollar is up. Some YEN US$ charts would be good. Good to straddle
    yourself in holdings overseas so not just subject to US$ valuations. Thanks everyone!

    • Markm
      Markm says:

      I’ll take the hope and raise you….I do like the TLT bid today. (I know, I know. No correlation. Lately there has been for sure.) Yen popped and pulled back. Maybe, just maybe – exhaustion is setting in. I also just looked at a 3 year chart of the USDJPY daily. Draw a line off multiple peaks from mid 2015. We are at that line today. Resistance? Major league overbought here. any thoughts are appreciated.

  23. kathleenchow
    kathleenchow says:

    CF, I see an inverse head & shoulder forming on the 5 min JNUG chart. How’s that for a ray of hope?

  24. chartfreak1
    chartfreak1 says:

    No recommendation here, because these can change fast, but oddly enough, TRX looks like it wants to bottom here on a 3 month daily chart.
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    I went to put the ticker TRX in, and accidentally put TR.

    What a nice 1 year chart Tootsie roll ( TR) has with a cup and handle / break out / back test completed.

    Tootsie rolls are worth more than Miners, now thats bad.

      • littletimeleft
        littletimeleft says:

        at 1st glance most are very small market caps, much easier to manipulate. most are HQd overseas too. plus they had cooled since their post trump run, daytraders rotating their areas of concentration? pure speculation there

    • Glmus
      Glmus says:

      I devised a way to play these crazies. I happen to have a few SINO. I currently am following it with a 50 hma. If it goes crazy, I will put stops in whenever it goes up a multiple of my current price of $4. Namely, if it passes $8 tomorrow, I will stop it somewhere under 8 for a double. If it goes to $12, I stop it under 12, etc. If I get a ten bagger, I will stop it under $40, maybe $39. I can dream can’t I. 🙂 Sadly, even a ten bagger will not cover my gold losses.

  25. pankef
    pankef says:

    I have found that during a BULL market, whenever the XAU Index closes below its 50 day MA by more than 10% simultaneously with a close below its 200 day MA by > 10%, a “low” of significance is close at hand (I know, I know, you’ve heard this tune before!). During the last secular advance from 2000-2008, the following dates were recorded where such a phenomenon materialized:
    7/26/2002, this was also the LOW week and the low was recorded on a Thursday.
    10/10/2002, also LOW week and low on Thursday.
    3/11/2003, also LOW week, low on Tuesday
    4/28/2004, 2 more down weeks approx. with a 6% draw
    4/27/2005, 2 more lower weeks with a 6.5% draw
    9/14/2006, 3 more lower weeks with a 6.25% draw
    8/16/2007, also LOW week, and low on Thursday

    In all of the above cases, once the weekly had established a swing low, that low was never again violated until the previous highs had been exceeded.

    During the 2008-2011 run, that condition appeared only once in late SEP 2011, and did produce a minor rally but failed and that was a good omen of things to come.

    The current situation, with today’s close on the XAU at approx. 73.70, we satisfy the conditions as noted earlier.

  26. Cason
    Cason says:

    Had a really tight stop on JDST, DUST in case we got a reversal. Which we didn’t do, but was stopped anyway (oops?). I got HL and AG right at the lows previously, which is kinda nuts b/c as SOG can tell you, buying the tops is kinda my style. So, that leaves me with a couple wins, a couple losses, and cash to deploy on next trade. The miners I still hold I am hopelessly buried in; the rest I’ve sold for profit before Fed or recently stopped at pretty minimal loss.

    The crazy thing is GDXJ fell so damn fast that a “hedge” in JDST was my 4th best trade of the year. Maybe if I’d gone just a bit heavier. Anyway, made enough to buy a full position on a GPL or NAK or AUMN if, if,if we ever get a bounce. Which doesn’t seem likely. Hell, I watched the initial April 2013 waterfall tick by tick and even that bounced (with an inside candle on the monthly, but at least a damn bounce).

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