Friday – Let’s just Talk Bull

Today is Friday , and it is the last trading day of the week.  Armed with the last 4  rather intensive reports on Gold & The Miners, let’s just talk Bull here today…

 THE WEEKEND REPORT WILL COVER THE BIGGER PICTURE, FOR NOW…

 

DJIA ( SPX) – Oh it’s a Bull, no disguising that! We had a swing high yesterday, BUT we had one 8 days ago too, so this MIGHT keep climbing. Notice how this acts around the 10sma in Sept & Oct?  So either use a tight stop at the 10 and risk selling out, or a looser trailing stop & keep riding the bulls  ups & downs. NOTE: We are becoming due for a top and drop to a dcl, but it is not necessary right here – at times we get that holiday week rally before Christmas, because light selling tends to float in bull markets, not sell off. Next week and especially the following week are slightly shortened in the US.

 

OIL – Oil and the XLE look to be in a “topping Process”, which can take time to actually TOP  & DROP.  I visualize it this way –  Buyers keep buying the dips, but Smart money often sells into the buying, so it goes sideways at the top. Eventually, if a top is to form, more Sellers overwhelm less buyers, and even the top buyers give up and begin to sell.  TOP & DROP. Oil is due for an ICL.

 

PRECIOUS METALS

 

I just wanted to start with a chart from yesterdays report.  I wanted to point out yesterday  that even after the lows are in,  you can get a 1 or 2  day pull back that make people nervous. See Magenta arrows.

GDX – we did see a back test of the 10sma yesterday, but so far this remains fine.

SO GOLD, SILVER, & MINERS SOLD OFF YESTERDAY IN THE MORNING, AND SOME WERE CONCERNED

 

THEN THEY STARTED TO BOUNCE INTO THE 12 EASTERN TIME HR.

 

AS I WRITE THIS MORNING, WE MAY GET OUR USUAL FRIDAY GOLD UP DAY.  I believe we now have a confirmed DCL in GOLD too   (Possible ICL).

 

2 reasons for this chart.  1. It shows those small 1 or 2 day sell offs along the way  after our recent JULY ICL. See the Purple writing.   2. The red square on the left also shows a fake 3 day rally that was convincing, but that sell off needed more selling to form an ICL. The next low was not that much deeper, it just shook people out.

IN MY MIND- I feel that Miners are bottoming, some individual Miners bottomed already as shown here this week (BTG, AXU, FSM, ETC), so I had positioned on WED after the FED, and added a bit on the pullback yesterday.  GOLD has me puzzled a bit, so I want to see that COT report tonight, since I felt that GOLD could drop further.  THAT SAID-  I have explained this to a degree already in past reports, and I will explain further in the weekend report.

 

 

LET’S REALLY GET BULLISH

 

I DO EXPECT A RALLY IN JANUARY, FEB, MARCH and  after a pullback, it could even continue.  In 2016 we basically saw precious metals take off in December & January and run through July. I’ll throw a BIG PIC from the coming weekend report in now  🙂

 

GDXJ – This looks crazy and beautiful at the same time, but in my eyes? It also looks possible over time if the Bull is to recover.  It is a massive inverse H&S.  Now compare this Bull Run to the 2016 run that made us loads of income 🙂 . I could have drawn a 1-2-3-4-5 and if I did, I would have made my ‘3’ higher.

AUY– SO with that in mind, now take a Miner like AUY.  It looks like it is near the lows, but it is forming a solid  base, as many Miners have.  2016 saw $1.50 to $6 in 6 months! See the chart.

AUY – And as crazy as this looks, if we get a resumption of the BULL, it is also very possible  over time. It actually happened before, it can happen again. $2.50 to $20 for the longer term investors here ( Or traders trading the cycles) can be very rewarding, because we are still near lows.

So if you got stopped out of a Miner recently  ( like IAG, GG, AG, CDE, etc in any of the selling this year) –  May the above charts and my next weekend report give you confidence to ‘get back on the horse’ , as they say. EVEN IF GOLD was to drop 1 more time, I think most Miners will resist that selling, but if you get knocked out of a position- saddle up at the next low risk set up  🙂

 

WITH THAT BULLISHNESS IN MIND…

SAND – I posted this yesterday, expecting a break out, but GOLD DROPPED IN THE MORNING.

 

SAND – Gold dropped in the morning?  This is a good company with good fundamentals and I expect it to do very well when the bull resumes. In fact, it has done very well since JUNE LOWS, and is pretty much already back at the highs, right? My ‘Investors’ –  the BUY & HOLD crowd,  should be looking at this as a future break out candidate to new highs already.

GSV– DID I SAY THAT GOLD WAS DOWN YESTERDAY AND MINERS WERE BACK TESTING THE 10 SMA ? SOME MINERS BOTTOMED IN NOVEMBER, so I am not worried if GOLD does a quick sell off, some didn’t follow it in November/Dec that much. ‘SIGNS OF BULLISH ACTIVITY’.

 

SBGL – I got an email about this one ( Thx ED), and that looks like a capitulation Low. The candle can be tested, price could drop down inside of that candle body again, but usually THE LOWS are in place.

NAK –  In Yesterdays report  I pointed out that NAK was actually finding support repeatedly on the weekly chart at the 50 weekly ma.

NAK – And then it started moving higher with good volume, so I repeatedly pointed it out in the comments section. It has recovered the 50sma. If Miners are set up to run, NAK is the one with a load on ‘stuff’ in the ground  ( a solid buy out candidate).

 

AG – The break out was pointed out Wednesday, yesterday was a buy again.

 

So in our discussion yesterday, I was showing that Miners bottomed in MAY,  that’s 7months ago, and should be due for a meaningful low (ICL).   In my opinion, Gold needs to prove itself a bit more.   Today I just wanted to point out that we not only had a back test of the 10sma, and then price went higher again, but we also did have more miners breaking out Thursday, though Gold was down.

Enjoy your Friday trading and the weekend report will mostly focus on the BIGGER PICTURE, and review a few bullish signs in the miners again.  And as always – Thanks for being a Chartfreak with me, I think that some very good times are yet to come! 

 

~ALEX

125 replies
  1. Peter
    Peter says:

    Thanks, Alex. Do you think we’ll have a rocket ship day in the blockchain stocks with the recent bump in bitcoin prices? BITCF intrigues me. Thoughts? Any others you would recommend for a one day trade?

    • chartfreak1
      chartfreak1 says:

      I do- I think this is going to break out and I have a 20,000 price target.

      Its hard to recommend any that you dont already own, since they could just gap open.
      I would say look for ones not overextend .

      For example ; I OWN GROW and like the way it is set up, but it does move up & down A LOT.

    • chartfreak1
      chartfreak1 says:

      One other thing that I was personally thinking Peter, is that as this rise continues, I do think that BITCOIIN will see a large correction at some point (If it is like any other parabolic run – that is up for debate), but that said… I kind of only ant to be in companies listed on NASDAQ or NYSE< etc , because it might be tough getting out of OTC stocks if we wake up & see BITCOIN down $1000 overnight.

      RIOT, GROW, SRAX, SSC, MARA, etc are a few that I can just hit a market prder in a sell off and get out rather quickly.
      OTC stocks ( for me) need a specific limit price and it can run right by your sell price again & again with out triggering it,

      That is how I am looking at this, though I did trade GLNNF AND PRELF recently, it is harder to get out on the way down with those.

  2. Ralph Wiederzane
    Ralph Wiederzane says:

    Wow, out to 2022 you see the bull carrying on? Seems like a stretch from where we sit today, and being the 2016 screamer only lasted 6 or 7 months, but you´re the chartist and I sure hope you are right! 🙂

    • chartfreak1
      chartfreak1 says:

      Not necessarily Ralph – you take things a bit too literal .

      It is not a chart about ‘Time’ – . It is a chart about price – it is not meant to be taken literal, as though this is exactly how it will play out year by year- nobody can do that.

      It is a visual of where “PRICE” has been and can go. If I drew it straight up, some would think that we are going up 100 points GDXJ in a month. lol

        • chartfreak1
          chartfreak1 says:

          Ha Ha – Maybe When I drew those, I was getting carried away! 😉

          But I do think that we are seeing a large inverse H&S , and price ran up that high in the prior Bull run,
          I think we have some GREAT gains ahead of us.

          • Ralph Wiederzane
            Ralph Wiederzane says:

            If I am not mistaken, the percentage gains would be similar to the 2016 bull too, which makes sense, even as it would take longer to achieve bc we are no longer coming out of an extreme bear market. Very interesting.

            The reason I say it makes sense is the % gains in a second leg are often similar to the gains made in the first leg.

  3. chartfreak1
    chartfreak1 says:

    This is something that I will be watching today. I want Gold to close convincingly above the 10sma and this trend line to help us to feel confident that GOLD has a dcl. We have seen it in Miners, but this is what I am watching today.
    We hit 1262 this a.m., that is a start.

    Refresh for 2 charts

    https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/dbdf5d4b8f4cb4fd6a15d7d8ce5526c499fd0f32476ac989cc404f89910ec86e.jpg https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/e28480a9645a80f6688446b6116f1aa897eaa4dda52dd93a114150267dcc6985.jpg

  4. RAY
    RAY says:

    Hi Alex,
    probabely a stupid question, but which are your top 3 in miners pick ? potential wise
    thanks –
    by the way a dreadful, horrible newlsetter today : )

    • zig-zag
      zig-zag says:

      Hey Ray I was wondering about which would have more potential as well.
      I decided to look at some monthly charts with Bollinger Bands and see what the upper BB potential was versus current price.

        • zig-zag
          zig-zag says:

          Hi Bill,
          Sorry for the delay.
          Seems like the most busted PM’s have the larger potential gains to the upper Monthly Bollinger bands.
          Makes sense when your break the BB bands to the lower side it blows up the upper side as well (remember this is Monthly).
          EGO, AUY are two that stand out; I kind of like AG as well.
          Looking at the 1 hr. chart looks like we have almost traced out 5 minor waves to the upside; so I will probably look for a coming pull back (50 – 62% retrace) and take some positions.
          Good luck!

      • Maria
        Maria says:

        Lets play a game w/ everyone…
        ,,,,,,,,,,,,,top 5 miners. (technically speaking … but feel free to add fundys)
        GO…

        *im making a list … and checking it twice.. gonna find out…..

  5. Bill
    Bill says:

    Alex, I get the opinion that you are cautiously optimistic on the miners. I believe you are telling us it looks okay to start a position but don’t go all in. I haven’t heard you say yet ” This volume looks real, I believe the lows are in”! It sounds like you are unsure if this is going to be a LT DCL or the real deal ICL. Is that about right?

    • chartfreak1
      chartfreak1 says:

      Cautiously optimistic that this is the lows, mainly because I think that SOME miners bottomed in Nov ( as shown in yesterdays report) and didn’t drop with GOLD – So even if Gold drops further, SOME miners smay just do a higher low.

      The problem is that I know many of my readers, and if I say , ” I am very confident that this is the ICL for Miners”, some tend to go VERY HEAVY Into JNUG, NUG, or another sort of leverage.

      So while I am Bullish for many reasons on the Miners, I cant say that GDX or GDXJ wont make new lows if Gold sells off, and leveraged holders would get hit.

      I do own some JNUG right now, but I am OK with the RISK, I’m in front of my screen all day if I need to be, and I MIGHT just take it as a 5-10 day trade- get out – and see where we are.

      Hope that helps- and yes, I didnt see the usual HIGH VOLUME SPIKE in JNUG NUGT DUST or JDST that seems to happen at lows, but that isnt too big of a deal.

      • RonB
        RonB says:

        I was going to use calls to trade JNUG just to take the squeamishness out of the equation for me, but the premium is about 20% and so I’m going to take the risk but with stops in place. In at 13.89.

        ps the options are up over 35% in value from 2 days ago

        • Cason
          Cason says:

          Leveraged etf options are a beast b/c of the bid/ask spread. I’ve found I can get almost the same squeeze out of GDX/J options. It’s not quite the 3x ratio with options due to low volume and extremely high implied volatility.

  6. Bill
    Bill says:

    I bought some JNUG Yesterday at $14.14. If my past failures have taught me anything, I never catch the bottom. When people are saying the bottom is in they are usually wrong. This action doesn’t seem to be a ICL take off. I am willing to bet JNUG will hit bottom at $11.73.

    My gold prediction $1220 still in play.
    https://www.tradingview.com/x/yhjXYmx6/

    PS, since I’m being overly cautious, gold will probably take off and leave me behind.

    • chartfreak1
      chartfreak1 says:

      Hey Roger, I have thought about this too, and I agree with that thinking

      however, in the back of my mind, I’m also kind of wondering if there are less losses to claim this year, because the BEAR MARKETS seem to be gone, and there were gains and losses in many areas .

  7. MundoX
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  8. Cal Staggers
    Cal Staggers says:

    A “fundamentals” friend recommended miner MOS because of its strong balance sheet – looking at L-T chart, it may also appeal to us “chart freaks” . If EW is any indication, it may be ready to drop into a 4th wave before the next let up – but a weekly chart shows it has some great L-T potential

      • Cal Staggers
        Cal Staggers says:

        Thanks for that, Bill – I was getting ready to do some more research, but can throw it out now. I’m in the mode of putting all my eggs in one basket (miners) and watching the heck out of that basket – no distractions, even when they’re good ones.

        • Ralph Wiederzane
          Ralph Wiederzane says:

          I actually like MOS too, it just recently turned a buy signal on my LT charts, along with UAN, I just went with the latter.

          I hear you too, about the miner focus. I am having trouble buying any other group at the moment. If I hadn´t already been in UAN the last month, probably wouldn´t own it!

  9. deshy
    deshy says:

    CF, thoughts on EGO?? Not sure it’s ready to go yet but it seems to be basing with some well defined bottom. Thx!!

    • chartfreak1
      chartfreak1 says:

      Deshy – sorry, I just refreshed and saw this comment ( You know your comments are still not auto loading, I’m not sure why??).

      EGO short term is basing , and may recover nicely when we get that ICL. I actually do like the short term chart – it may pop to the 50sma, and then we can see what t wants to do.

      Long term it is actually at bear market lows, so it is having some fundamental problems

  10. Hawaiifive0
    Hawaiifive0 says:

    I bought some GDXJ, SILJ, AUY, GORO, IAG and CDE today. All are green except GDXJ and the best performers are CDE and GORO. Also happy to be holding NAK from long ago.

  11. Peter
    Peter says:

    Alex, can you make heads or tails on XBI’s behavior besides the fact it’s being held down by the 10 and 50 sma?

  12. deshy
    deshy says:

    Anybody? How do we log out of this site? Just want to see whether that fixes the posting of my messages. Thx!

  13. Peter
    Peter says:

    Alex, are you still comfortable with SPRWF? I noticed it broke to the downside from the symmetrical triangle it’s forming over the last two or so weeks (on the daily).

  14. Ralph Wiederzane
    Ralph Wiederzane says:

    I don´t like how FNV is finishing the week, might still have to go down another $2 to test that 200 MA. I DO like how FFMGF is finishing the last few minutes.

    MUX too, trying to go out at the high of the week.

  15. littletimeleft
    littletimeleft says:

    more blockchain plays to watch: OHAI, LFIN. and DPW presents on weds, should see some volume roll in prior to. BITCF ripping today

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