As mentioned in last nights report, we saw an explosive move in Commodities yesterday one day before the Fed Decision. That caught a lot of people who were not in front of their screens flatfooted. Last nights report also pointed out that it looks as though what we have been expecting to occur during the Fed Speech is beginning to play out. Lets go shopping and see if we can find some low risk entries developing in OIL and Precious Metals.
Lets re-visit WG. Rather low priced, I recommended this beaten down Energy stock here at $0.80 and $1.00 in early Sept.

It Popped and ran to $1.80 rapidly and now has formed a bull flag type pattern, landing on the 10sma. You could buy this with a stop under the 10sma as a low risk entry.

Lets keep shopping…
I mentioned that I like the looks of AREX even though it hadn’t done much lately.

It POPPED strongly Wednesday up over 20% at one point. Notice that the chart still doesnt look like it has done very much. That shows it’s potential i.m.h.o. This is a buy. In June it was $7.

DNN is a Uranium company and they have been hot & cold lately, but this set up looks good because it sits on the bottom currently. Low risk with a stop right under the lows. ( NOTE: DNN is under $1. Some prefer to avoid cheap stocks).

WPX – Off of the lows in Aug and then consolidated gains sideways above the 10sma. Inverse H&S?

QEP -just starting? Look at that potential if Oil has bottomed.

LGCY & UPL– At the lows. Read the writing on the chart

UPL

Some MINERS exploded yesterday. We saw beaten down low priced juniors jump 10,20, 25%! AXU jumped 35% in the past week . Lets look at some Miners for an example of what to look for when buying. We are seeing a pull back in futures this morning for an opportunity. Some still may wish to wait until after the Fed Decision is released and markets calm down. I still expect the reaction to be in both directions based on past releases.
EGI Wkly– I point this low priced stock out for its movement in recent times and its possibilities over the long term when Gold bottoms and begins trending higher. Notice the strong tun at the March ICL. ( only 450%). It is moving again, up 23% yesterday alone. Why important?

EGI WKLY – longer term the potential is for a move over 1000% from here if and when The Precious Metals markets bottom and begin the move back to former highs. Note: the word ‘potential’ must not be confused with the word ‘guarantee’. They are very different words. 😉

ABX – formerly $50 , currently at lows.

GG – still at the lows, but look at what it did on the 2nd daily cycle in Dec. Good potential , and it is a well known company if that is what you look for.

AUY – read the chart

AU – I also looked back at the performance in the 2nd daily cycle last DEC for this one. IIt double bottomed back then, this time it has shown signs of strength.

So we are seeing a pullback in Futures. It may be a buying opportunity if you got home from work yesterday and looked at charts and thought that everything that we had been waiting for was already taking off with out you. Please keep in mind that after the FED Decision is released, I still expect instability and high volatility. In what way? No one really knows for sure? I just know that often you get a strong move in 1 direction that looks very real, and then it reverses strongly in the other direction. Things can even end the day Thursday one way, and Friday you see no follow through. It’s not an easy time to trade, but the best way to look at it is like this.
We have been expecting lows in Commodities like Gold and Oil. Temporary or possibly even longer term lows. The timing is right, the set up is even looking good longer term , and now the move is starting to play out. Volatility at lows is common until the move gains some traction. I think a pull back today or after the Fed is an opportunity, as long as Lows aren’t taken out again. If lows are not taken out, it is time to go shopping and look at some of the stocks that jumped 10,20 30% yesterday. They may go on sale today & even tomorrow.
Best wishes and I expect that this report and last nights report covers what could happen Post Fed today & tomorrow. I’m not planning on a Friday report. Metals and oil may be pulling back or running strong going into the weekend, but we have our parameters and game plan in place. Also recall that most of the past Fridays started off selling gold down and then reversed toward the end of Friday (when no one wanted to buy & hold over the weekend). Many Fridays are reversals in gold lately.
For a starter shopping list, See charts above and also of SSRI, PAAS, EXK, HL, NG, NGD, EGO, IAG, SLW, MUX, GSS, BAA, etc. Also WRES, REXX, EXXI, GTE ( ready now?) XCO, LPI, WPX, AREX, UPL, BBG, BBEP, LGCY, etc. Watch to see if they are above the 50sma? over the 10sma? About to move over one? Best wishes!
~ALEX
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Thanks for the double report Alex. I’m 100% in on this move, fingers crossed.
Ur welcome…..and better than crossing your fingers, close your eyes from 2 to 4 Eastern time !
I plan on it! 😉 Starting at 12 in case they release early.
AXU
Impressive, YGE, REN, DVN
There goes REN ( pushing on the 50sma now) up almost 20% today.
Interesting that G Bonds were flat y’day with commodity surge
FYI. Upcoming splits in leveraged miners (refresh)
Thanks for the update, they had to, couldn’t let them get too cheap.
Bull flag forming in Gold, waiting on the FED
Chart attached 1135 Target
Crickets?
lol bill
WG is on sale!
frenchie.. would u mind posting ur energy WL? tx
Alex, ECA and T look interesting. T has a 5.75% yield for those looking for a bit of yield.
Blast Off
I hope so. Having trouble with TD Ameritrade again. Luckily (I think) got almost all of my orders in.
AH is ugly. Hopefully, someone is Asia wants to cue off the Wall Street start…
Fun times
(miners list – refresh)
NGD!
tx.. i meant oil/energy
I know 🙂
miners more GREEN
FED is NOT changing the rates? Surprised we are up so strong.
I’m disappointed we are pulling back here, now down quite a bit. The FED’s decision to raise rates was expected, now we didn’t get it? Watch out below?
Wow, holy volatility of volatility, Bat-Man. I know we should be at commodity lows but general market craziness does make this a difficult hold!
Oil list @disqus_brXtHPogSz:disqus
(refresh)
thank u dear
avec plaisir Madame
Oh my BAS!
Harmonics pattern on BAS predicts 6.34
Wow, I was just hoping to get back to the congestion btw 5.48-5.52. Thanks for sharing, I’ll look to update my target on charts this weekend!
EXK is breaking out nicely today.
(refresh)
Xavier.. are you looking at TPLM as a double bottom buy?
…or maybe lack of MACD divergence just yet?
not crazy about it.
don’t be a hero with this one.
plenty of better one.
wait for 10ma cross and healthy volume.
(refresh for weekly chart)
thx
Alex, GDX at the 50SMA, GDXJ already through. Do you expect a pullback here/soon?
We are on day 4 of this dcl. I’m ignoring wiggles. There will be pull backs and runs higher, and volatility on Fed day. Even the day after Fed day volatility. I expect higher prices in the middle of this daily cycle
Seems to me JY just told everyone to buy Govt Bonds
Good to buy here: FXY, FXE (or the double), TLT (or the 3x TMF), energy, PMs, SH (short SPY or double SDS(?)).
Seems to me st mkt topped in May and will trend down for the next year or 2. Just like…what year was it? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qJS3xnD7Mus
Bill .. what’s your harmonica say about CRK ??
anything close to this little diddy I was playin around w/ in my batcave lastnite?
https://www.tradingview.com/x/GwjAUADe/
i think tomoro it goes… let me know if ur harmonica detects anything like this .. 😉
https://www.tradingview.com/x/Av9xQjAk/
you can actually see it better here… i measured the BIG GREEN CANDLE.. (just a one day move im lookn for)
Sorry, Maria. I don’t see anything special forming. No pattern that I can pick up on.
ok…thx
Double down on AUY.
I have had NO luck with ind. choices so just went with good ole JNUG. The spike up then big selldown in S&P/DOW making me a bit nervous, though.
NGD, anybody. I gave it a lots of love. Right?
WPX is solid. Great PE and positive insider buying
Alex, hey double bonus report day, Woo-hoo! Understand we have our playbook so no report tomorrow. However, I would appreciate any thoughts you have on market reaction this afternoon. Unless it is – just volatility based on the fact that we expected volatility around the news (in which case there isn’t anything to discuss).
S&P/DOW fired up pretty good as the press conference started (I did not watch, was not able to), but then sold off pretty hard into the close. We did not quite get up to the 50 or 200 day for a kiss goodbye yet, nor did I really expect it to roll over on what could have been seen as good news for the markets (gold certainly liked it). I got a bit uncomfortable there at the end- last time we had a huge plunge a few weeks ago, miners and energy did not fare that well – if we get a re-test of the lows the low tide could drag commodity stocks with them. If you have any particular thoughts, would appreciate, though probably too early to really read too much into this yet. Have a good weekend!
Look at the NASDAQ in my first report last night or this morning…it did exactly as I thought it may.
Yeah, I went back and re-read. I had only charted S&P and DOW at first. Also, I guess I thought that we were thinking low volume rise and then a slam if we had a ‘surprise’ rate hike. This makes it look like it was news-agnostic and NAZ and friends would have rolled over EITHER WAY. Which surprises me a bit. Again, concern is lower tide can ground all boats. I think we roll over eventually and test and potentially even bear market at some point; thought the no rate party might last longer than 90 minutes though. 😛
Ok, now that the announcement is out of the way, jumped on JNUG. Actually, cheated a bit and added first half of position this morning on light pullback, knowing if we got slammed on a rate raise I could stop out with little damage. But if it takes off…!
Solid day for energy stocks, hopefully oil has another good day tomorrow and I’ll continue to rotate into some of the items from our Shopping List!
Anyone else concerned that with OIL turning down (Refresh for possible target at C), GOLD may be next?
I’ve been watching that closely today Bill. It doesn’t look great with the USD so weak! Currently back below my 200 ema on my 1 hour chart, which is not ideal for a short term bull case but it is holding above the 45.0 area which looks like pretty important short term support. It could just be a deep correction of the first upleg from the 43.55 low on 14 Sep. So I’m just watching carefully for now. I also have gold approaching a potential resistance area 1145/1150 so would not be surprised to maybe see a bit of backing and filling there soon as well.
Back to your C target around 42.0 is also very close to the 62% Fib retracement level, which would suggest as your chart does we are still in a correction phase and havent actually started the next bull leg yet. So certainly good to be aware of. Thanks for your update. 🙂
No. Show me that they correlate all that well, consistently, and I’ll be more concerned. http://schrts.co/ItX8AF
In particular look at gold’s 2nd DC run to the interm top in Jan 2015 and how oil was plunging then.
Look on a daily…I have it back testing the break out from the flag pattern
Good point! 🙂 Been giving support for the last 4 hours or so. I actually have it drawn in on my 1 hour chart but for some reason it hadn’t registered!! Time to pack up and head to the pub I think!! Have a great weekend. 🙂
NGD frenchie… woop
Bill.. oil looks fine to me… about to bust a move…(if my count is correct) ;o)
https://www.tradingview.com/x/rfQRV16P/
It looks like your expecting a fall to “5”. That matches my outlook. Mine is daily though, so 4 more days until bottom. Then bust a move.
so the answer is……. depends on your timeframe ;o)
That’s an intersting looking count Maria and suggests one more test of the 50% retracment level around 43.5 I suspect though a drop to there will fray a few nerves for anyone who was hoping that a new strong bull leg was ALREADY underway. It’s doing everything it can to throw off ‘riders’!!
well.. obviously this all hinges on ‘my count’ being right, but .. it looks exciting to me since 1 – i am in for a swing in my intermediate account, and 2. I am schooled to expect.. impulse-correction-impulse-correction.. and i know a break from a triangle produces a powerful move… soo .. im good ;o)
thats just me… mho ;o)
I found it very useful…so ‘thank you’. 🙂 I was thinking the next impulse had already started but can now see the arguement from yours and Bill’s charts why one more bit of backfilling would be best fit before that next impulse begins. I’ve been looking for another opportunity to get long of oil and with the help of both your charts have my ‘plan’ in place. Now all I have to do is ‘trade the plan’!! Lol
:o) just keep in mind i am just a novice wannaBe MissyElliott ;o)
As far as I’m concerned we NEVER stop learning, so in that sense we are ALL novices and over the years I’ve seen some truly ‘crap’ forecasts by so called’ experts. So whilst I appreciate the warning, if yours or anyone else’s view makes sense, then it warrants my attention and consideration at the very least. But don’t worry I beleive 100% that the ONLY person responsible for my ultimate decisions is ME, so if things don’t pan out as expected then the ”buck stops with me’. But I greatly apprecaite seeing other points of view and anaylsis, so thanks again ” Wannabe Missy Elliott” Lol 😉
Exactly, Chris!
Oh thank goodness Chris…I thought you were gonna say CF. : )
No worries!! Lol 🙂
NGD is a gold mine!
Does that count as a gap fill on GDX? Yes, I think so. Move forward now please.
Bigger give back on JNUG than I was hoping for this morning. Just noise or time to take profit into the weekend? Everyone still staying full long through weekend or some peeling back?
Stops will dictate long or not for me.
First off Cason I must declare I have no position in this so just speaking purely from what I see on the charts. Today I had the price hitting a falling downtrend on my daily chart from the June and Aug price peaks. So far that lloks to be offering resistance. I have the 10 day ema back down at 8.50 so it could backfill to here and still look very bullish. I’m not saying it will but simply that it could even under a nicely bullish scenario.On my 1 hour chart there is a possible 5 wave move that looks complete. If so that would allow some backing and filling to a usual target around 8.60/8.70 and still leave the 1 hour chart happily bullish. Again, I’m not saying it will but just trying to give you an idea of how this could back and fill a little to those levels and still leave shorter term charts with an overall bullish look. But just my very humble opinion. As Bill so rightly says though, it should be stops that dictate and only you can decide where you are comfortable placing your stops.
Chris, thanks for the comments, obviously I am not going to sit in JNUG down to 8.50 🙂 stop was well, well above that (as posted above). I’ll look for this Mon/Tues might be a time for a re-entry.
Had my stop hit on JNUG at 9.70? Not showing it went that low? Anyway, out for now, watching it move higher at 9.90
It had hit 9.68 at the time you wrote the above. Obviously this has changed since then. I didn’t like the action as I stated before and ejected out of the position at 9.88 instead of waiting for 9.50 stop to get hit. I had a winner; haven’t had many recently and with chance of full market rollover felt better taking that winner in cash before the weekend. If we flush Monday may re-enter as we should be expecting 2nd DCL here.
I have no money left but FCX looks interesting here. Went from 12.50 yesterday down to 11 today because of $2 billion of share offerings.
Carl, that sounds like me “I have no money left” …. GL brother
Haha. I should have said I was fully invested.
Much better. Unfortunatley, I have no money left is pretty accurate for me…
CRK was sitting right on the 50sma . Good low risk ( except if it gapped down) because ur stop would be a bit below the 50sma.
I think their earnings were horrible though, but that’s when it ramped up. Strange.
It DID break the lower trend line & run up and back test it tho…so caution is warranted. (Refresh)
Just one last one before I head off for a few drinks! From a longer term point of view SSRI looks to be developing a really nice basing pattern and has spiked today for some reason, so may backfill a little in coming days. But I also have it starting to break it’s downtrend from 2011 highs. Looking increasingly constructive on a longer term view. Alex has very likely metioned it previously and would explain why it’s on my watchlist. Good weekend to everyone. 🙂
Hey Alex,
If you don’t post a report on Fridays, maybe just start a blog so were have a new place for comments and discussion? No picture required! 😉
the ‘^’ voting on crowded reports makes it hard, too as new comments are inserted fairly randomly into the page (below all ‘liked’ posts). Not so bad on full desktop client; almost completely impossible to find on mobile though (for folks working during the day!!).
Im working all day? Desk Top!
Bill, you trade all day for a living, don’t you?
No, far from it, I’m an Engineer.
agreed Bill
Hey Bill…didnt see this till Sunday We may start a blog just for posting & discussions that doesnt not change day to day…it can run continuously
I like the daily format, doesn’t get caught up with older info? IMHO
H&S pattern on GOLD 30 min chart? Might be, down to 1133
GDXJ needs to hold and/or reverse roundabout here ($20.90), otherwise we could be in for an ABC time
You called it!
possibly not out the woods just yet tho’..
Big divergence with Seniors this afternoon.
You’ve gotta like the way gold is holding up with the dollar reversal and sharp rally here.
True. BUT silver and juniors remain weak. Although the flush in junior 30-60 minutes ago may have been a great re-load point.
Picked up some JNUG there.
what just happened to AG? 700,000 shares moved in 10 minutes? Anyone following?
AEZS for those of you that like low cost stocks, this is a pharma that just got blessing from government to go ahead with production. Nice volume today.
Very disappointing for oil to give back all of Wed move as I thought we had started next wave up. Hard to tell how much of the move is news/market related and how much is ‘real’. Rigs report out this afternoon, down 8 more but unable to move the needle today, might help on Monday. As I posted, yesterday flailing market likely bad for energy regardless of recent chart, which turned out to be accurate.
CDE… last 10 min of the day, crazy volume!!!!
biggest volume ever (or close to it). Conference on Monday in Denver.
You all should have a choice to sort the comments . Some were saying something about the order they are in. look above..^