Category Archives: Gold Miners

Early Session: Biotech

September 19, 2025 By in $SPSIBI, Biotech, GLD, Gold & Silver, Gold Miners, LABD, LABD-25-12, Positions, SPBIO, Spring-to-Up-Thrust, Up-Thrust, XBI

Repeating Pattern

The graphic at left, is a segment of biotech tracking ETF, XBI.

Note how it exhibits a repeating pattern of spring-to-up-thrust (S & U).

Today is also Fibonacci ‘Day 5’, from the ‘S’ labeled low.

As seen with gold GLD, slightly higher, not correcting immediately, anything can happen.

However, with XBI, we’re in a multi-year downtrend that may be finishing its countertrend move, ready to up-thrust and reverse lower (not advice, not a recommendation).

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Gold … Correction Coming

September 19, 2025 By in DUST, GDX, GDXJ, GLD, Gold & Silver, Gold Miners, JDST, JDST-25-14, Positions 3 Comments

Measured Move

We’re there now.

The chart below, shows a (potential terminating) wedge with measured move.

Tracking fund GLD, has met the wedge target.

As always with the markets, anything can happen.

Gold GLD, Weekly

If gold (GLD) does correct, even just a little, it’s likely to hit the miners, GDX, GDXJ as well (not advice, not a recommendation).

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Biotech … The Big One?

September 10, 2025 By in $SPSIBI, Biotech, GDX, GDXJ, Gold & Silver, Gold Miners, Greg Hunter, HOOD, IBB, Karen Kingston, LABD, LABD-25-10, Nasdaq, ORCL, Positions, QQQ, S&P, S&P 500, SPBIO, Speck-Effect, SPY, The Speck, XBI 3 Comments

Next Leg Lower

Unfortunately, the (mad scientist) graphic at left, is not too far removed from what’s really going on in biotech.

While the S&P, Nasdaq Qs, Gold Miners, Semiconductors, Financials, The HOOD, ORCL, and others, continue to make all-time highs, conspicuously absent is biotech, XBI and IBB.

Now, it appears that quietly, in the background, XBI is reversing to the downside.

Biotech XBI, Daily Close

The up-thrust is there, but is a weak penetration of resistance.

Even so, on the ‘test’, volume contracted by -49.24%, when compared to volume on the upside penetration.

Until proven otherwise, this set-up appears to (currently) be the best short opportunity.

With that said, all other short positions have been closed to focus on biotech.

Leveraged inverse fund LABD is being used at this juncture: Trade LABD-25-10, with stop at the session low (not advice, not a reocmmendiaton).

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Junior Miners … Wedge

September 2, 2025 By in GDXJ, Gold & Silver, Gold Miners, JDST, JDST-25-13, Positions

Throw-Over?

When looking at the chart of Junior Miners, GDXJ, it’s possible we could be in the midst of a massive terminating wedge ‘throw-over’ (not advice, not a recommendation).

We’re about an hour before the close; GDXJ, price action is beginning to retreat off its session highs.

Junior Miners, GDXJ, Weekly

Upward thrust (Force) is dissipating.

If action enters back into the wedge pattern, it’s typically viewed as a sell, or sell short signal (not advice, not a recommendation).

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Gold Miners … In The ‘Pattern’

August 11, 2025 By in DUST, GDX, GDXJ, Gold & Silver, Gold Miners, GXZ25, Inflation, JDST, Spring-to-Up-Thrust, Wyckoff

Was That, The Top?

Inflation reports are released tomorrow, link here.

That release may be an inflection point for the miners.

This past Friday, GCZ25, posted an all-time high, then reversal; in the early session today, it’s continuing lower.

From a Wyckoff standpoint, what’s in the inflation reports is immaterial. The real question is, ‘what’s the market saying about itself?’

Junior Miners, GDXJ, Daily

Repeating pattern, Spring-to-Up-Thrust.

Pre-market action (8:34 a.m., EST) shows a lower open.

If we open lower, the short entry objective, is to wait for action to move higher in an attempt to close the (potential) gap (not advice, not a recommendation).

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Sunday Night Futures

July 20, 2025 By in AEM, CRWD, GDX, Gold & Silver, Gold Miners, NEM, Richie Naso

The Agnico ‘Wedge’

Similar to yesterday’s update, showing a wedge pattern for CRWD, we have another (long term) wedge pattern in Agnico Eagle Mines (AEM).

Focusing on ‘strategy’, when market patterns show up, especially in the longer timeframes, we’ll take notice.

Before getting to the chart, here’s a compilation of Richie Naso quotes and insights that have been reviewed over the past week. It’s always good to hear thoughts from a renowned trader.

Richie Naso Quotes

Marathon, link here.

Algorithms ‘Technical Area’, link here.

Short sellers, more highly skilled, link here.

It’s ‘art’, not science, link here.

Agnico Eagle Mines AEM, Monthly

Taking eighteen years to form a wedge, suggests that whatever happens to AEM, is likely to happen in a big way (not advice, not a recommendation).

Agnico’s weighted as No. 2, (just barely) in Senior Miners Index (ETF) GDX; No. 1 spot, going to Newmont, NEM.

Newmont is scheduled to release earnings this coming Thursday, after-hours.

Unlike, Agnico, Newmont’s is well off its all-time highs, already posted an up-thrust, now coming back to test.

It could get interesting on Thursday.

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SOXX, (false) Breakout?

July 3, 2025 By in Artificial Intelligence, David Weis, DUST, DUST-25-05, GDX, Gold & Silver, Gold Miners, NVDA, Positions, Semiconductors, SOXX, SOXX-25-01, Spring-to-Up-Thrust, Up-Thrust 2 Comments

Edge-of-the-Lake

At the end of the session, yesterday, a short was opened in the SOXX, as trade, SOXX-25-01 (not advice, not a recommendation).

We’ll see below, price action finally penetrated long-standing resistance around 240 – 243, and then (so far), has stopped dead.

In the overnight session, SOXX churned higher to post 243.63, and is hovering around that level, in the pre-market.

There’s no doubt we’re at ‘the edge of the lake’, as David Weis, used to say.

Semiconductor SOXX, Daily Close

It’s important to note, big cap Nvidia, is in Spring-to-Up-Thrust condition (chart not shown), with it posting new all-time-highs.

If NVDA confirms an up-thrust and heads lower, it’s likely to take the rest of the (SOXX) market down as well.

Market Positions

Positioned short the SOXX, with a stop yet to be determined; somewhere around the overnight high of 243.63 (not advice, not a recommendation).

Separately, stop on GDX short, DUST-25-05 is being moved up to the vicinity of yesterday’s low, 23.98 (not advice, not a recommendation).

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Miners & CrowdStrike

July 2, 2025 By in CRWD, DUST, DUST-25-05, GDX, GLD, Gold & Silver, Gold Miners, Positions

A Tale of Two ‘Set-Ups’

When looking at the price action of Senior Miners, GDX, you get the sense, ‘it had to be this way’.

That is, the only way to get up enough energy to close the gap shown below, was to have two successive (lower) ‘spring’ attempts.

Senior Miners, GDX, Daily

Yesterday’s action closed the gap.

What comes next is unknown, but we do have a ‘line in the sand’; that is, if miners (and gold) are to continue on a potential ‘hyperinflation breakout’, then, GDX must post a new daily high above yesterday’s 53.04, at some point.

Either way, Hard Stop of DUST-25-05, at 23.69 (not advice, not a recommendation).

Now, on to CrowdStrike.

CrowdStrike, CRWD, Daily

Yesterday’s action was ‘outside-down’.

We’re right at resistance, that will become support if CRWD, is able to rally from here.

If not, and CRWD posts (consistently) below resistance, then we’re at the top edge of a rising wedge pattern that’s been forming since July, of last year.

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Newmont’s Breakout Fails

June 25, 2025 By in DUST, DUST-25-04, GDX, GLD, GOLD, Gold Miners, NEM, Positions, Up-Thrust

Long Awaited

Yesterday, Newmont was hanging on, trying to post higher after its failed breakout.

Today, could be the day where it continues down (not advice, not a recommendation).

With about thirty minutes before the open, NEM is trading slightly lower.

Newmont Mining, NEM, Daily

There’s a lot going on in this chart.

Note how the ‘wide high-volume bar’, has been tested. It took eight months to do it, but it happened.

Gold (GLD) is still near all-time highs, yet Newmont, is far below its all-time high; about -33%, (from April 2022).

Currently short this sector via DUST, as DUST-25-04, with stop at or near yesterday’s DUST low of 24.69 (not advice, not a recommendation).

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Are Bulls Leaving GDX?

June 11, 2025 By in GDX, GDXJ-25-01, Gold & Silver, Gold Miners, Positions

Volume Retreats

The chart of Senior Miners, GDX, at left, shows successive declines in print high, close high, and volume on net up days.

This is a subtle indication, the bulls may be backing off to see what happens next.

After all, it’s been non-stop cheerleading by the press:

Ditch the SPX – Precious Metals Are the Real Deal, link here.

Silver Is Finally Soaring: Here’s Why, link here.

Metallic Mayhem: Platinum Pops, Silver Squeezes, Gold Brews, link here.

On the other side, inflation seems to be slowing, absent, or even (gasp) declining.

What’s going to happen if/when there’s a ‘deflation’ scare?

Fearmongering Pundits Disappointed AGAIN As Consumer Prices Refuse To Surge On Trump Tariffs, link here.

Positioning

Currently short GDX, with a tight stop near yesterday’s high @ 52.61 (not advice, not a recommendation).

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