Category Archives: Gold & Silver

Gold To Rally ~ $1,660

March 13, 2021 By in GLD, Gold & Silver, The Speck 2 Comments

If that happens, expect the usual suspects to ‘Go Postal’ on the hyperinflation narrative.

Johnny Bravo put it best when he said (to the effect) months ago:

We’re going to get hyperinflation. The question is “When?”

Looking at it a different way and in ‘Oligarch speak’.

The time for hyperinflation, is when the proletariat have exhausted their supplies of precious metals … most likely using it to buy food.

An engineered famine is being constructed; in process, as we speak.

Judging from comments on the financial sites, the public still thinks food prices are rising because of inflation.

There are exceptions (thankfully) like the comment area on ZeroHedge articles. Those few but growing number, understand exactly what’s happening.

So, what’s all of this got to do with the price of gold?

It’s perfectly natural and maybe expected that gold, GLD, after breaking support will rally back to test the 166 (~ $1,660) area.

Just like the incessant narrative on “The Speck“, which is drilled into the collective consciousness day after day (except maybe in South Dakota and Texas) so too, is the hyperinflation Weimar Republic narrative.

A Black Swan (as explained by Nassim Taleb) is a major unexpected event.

The flip side, a Black Swan is also a major expected event, that does not happen. That second definition is not commonly discussed.

What if hyperinflation never happens? What if there’s some kind of ‘transition’ before it has a chance to take hold?

If GLD tests 166, and reverses, downside targets are now 133 and then even lower at 110.

If that happens, there could be a market crash to go along with it.

With margin debt levels the highest in history, most if not all participants will be wiped out long before gold at $1,100 (or lower).

Silver and gold at fire sale levels and the public will be on the other side of the fence, turning in their precious metals hoard in exchange for worthless fiat dollars … just to survive.

It’s an oligarch’s dream come true.

Stay Tuned

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Closer to The Break

March 6, 2021 By in Bitcoin, BTU, Coal, DRV, GOLD, Gold & Silver, Gold Miners, LABD, Positions, Real Estate, SA, Van Metre 1 Comment

With the kids at the card-table, freaking about ‘plunge protection team‘, rigged markets and Bitcoin, grownups the next table over, are planning their moves.

Friday’s late session rebound higher was not uncommon for a typical short squeeze.

These gyrations are intended to make sure only a select few are aboard when we get the break.

This idea is not new. You’ll find statements to that effect over and over in most any trading book.

The big difference now, is the amazing level of complacency and learned helplessness of the overall population.

Just one example of such before we move on to the charts.

Texas has opened up. Schools are about to go without diapers. Perish the thought.

Yet, there’s still a contingent that’s near hysteria about ‘safety’.

With all the information available, yes one actually has to do real research to find out what’s going on, huge segments of the population adamantly remain (intentionally) ignorant.

Unfortunately, that segment has voluntarily (at least in the U.S.) lined themselves up to be taken out; financially as well as physically.

Just a few of the most recent links, here, here, and here.

At some point, those links are going to become common knowledge.

Hopefully, there will be long lasting and certain retribution for the perpetrators. However, for those who ‘volunteered’, it’s already too late.

Now, on to the markets.

Friday’s real estate rebound (IYR) looked like short-squeeze action.

In response to that and late in the session, short position DRV (3X inverse IYR) was increased at price 9.37 (not advice, not a recommendation).

Volatility is still low in IYR. Short positions can be increased with less risk.

The Big Break

When and if the break comes, it’s likely to be fast; no time to plan.

Whatever plans one has should’ve been laid out well ahead of time.

Two markets being watching closely are Peabody Energy (BTU) and Seabridge Gold (SA).

By now everyone’s aware that a certain far east country is going about its business and building their infrastructure … as if nothing had ever happened. Funny that.

Conversely, the coal market has bottomed out and so has Peabody.

On top of that, the Texas Freeze laid bare the farce that is climate change, global warming and green energy.

Quietly, without fanfare, coal is seeing increased demand.

The blue arrow is a gap in trading that could be filled.

To do that, there might have to be a massive market collapse, pushing BTU back to that level … if only temporarily.

Huge volume in the past six months shows that somebody’s buying.

The next market is Seabridge Gold (SA) which is being watched for essentially the same reasons. If Van Metre is right and we’re in a deflationary impulse, the entire public’s on the wrong side of the trade.

If SA can get itself below 13 – 14, it then enters free-fall territory.

If that happens, as with BTU, it too might be a short lived event.

Positioning:

Currently, the firm’s position (not advice, not a recommendation) is short biotech and real estate via LABD and DRV, respectively.

If BTU and SA get to extreme lows, both of them have potential for a ‘ten-bagger’, the possibility to gain over 1,000%.

Getting to such gains would necessitate a change in the current strategy of trading, to buy and hold.

Summary:

Pressure seems to be building for some unexpected event that would cause a market break; Possibly the devaluation of the Yuan as discussed by Steven Van Metre.

If that’s going to happen it’s likely to be soon.

Stay Tuned

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Finally, Inflation Shows Up

February 21, 2021 By in Bonds, Food Supply, GLD, GOLD, Gold & Silver, S&P 500, Solar Minimum, SPY, TLT, TMF

Its been nearly twelve years exactly since the market bottom of March 9th, 2009.

At that time gold tracking fund GLD, was trading around 90.

Today, it’s at 167, a gain of about 85%.

Gold futures for April ’21, closed this past Friday at 1,777.4

Either way, it’s a far cry from the $10,000/oz. that has been bandied about for what seems like forever.

Prices for energy and food are rising because of reasons not discussed in the financial media.

That media is certainly not going to educate the public.

In turn, that public has shown there’re certainly not going to educate themselves. If they were awake, news channel ratings (in the link) would be at zero.

Unfortunately, this time around, the game’s up.

The ongoing collapse will decimate those who refuse to wake up and will probably take some of those who are, with them.

Which brings us to the so called inflation, at hand.

What can be said? We can call it lies, misinformation, propaganda but none of those really get to the root.

Input prices are rising not from inflation, but from supply constriction and disruption.

For example, the corporate (big-Ag) food supply chain as reported on many times, is intentionally being destroyed. The result of course, prices go higher.

We’re also in a quiet sun-cycle period that only serves to help with (cold) weather extremes. The only discussion from the media concerning the weather is that’s it’s getting warmer, right? Opposite of reality.

So we’re taking that ‘opposite of reality’ as a contrary indicator.

Whatever inflation we’ve got after nearly twelve years, is probably at or near a peak … ready to head lower.

That includes the market as well. The likely outcome:

Market down, bonds up.

The daily close of long bond TLT, has it in a support zone. One attempt has already been made to position long via TMF (not advice, not a recommendation) as detailed in this report.

Once again this past Friday, another TMF entry.

Both bonds and the markets (i.e. S&P 500) are at opposite extremes. The risk of loss in bonds may have reached its nadir.

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Silver: No Squeeze In Sight

February 18, 2021 By in Gold & Silver, SLV, zsl 1 Comment

There are so many reasons why the silver squeeze is over; not the least of which is the constant bombardment of the supposed event in the financial press.

If the mainstream financial press is covering the topic (any topic) whatever the event, it’s over, irrelevant or an intentional miss-direction.

The little guy’s not going to put the big guys into a bind.

Not going to happen.

The big guys (the controlling interests) will just change the rules of the game as is being done with SLV.

Let’s move on.

Potential action in SLV is above. We’ve got hits on the right side of the chart indicating a potential trend has formed.

There’s already precedent for a trend change with the massive volume spike on February 1st.

Inverse fund ZSL (not advice, not a recommendation) is showing the same trend potential but in the opposite direction … up.

As always, anything can happen. For example, an earthquake (seismic activity picking up world-wide) could wipe out production at some major mine and affect the price.

The chart above, shows the current potential. A trend may have been formed. If SLV price posts a new daily low (below 24.93), we have additional confirmation.

Stay Tuned

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Miners, GDX Accelerates Lower

February 17, 2021 By in DRV, GDX, GOLD, Gold & Silver, Gold Miners, IYR, Real Estate, Wyckoff

With GDX posting a new weekly low (below 33.23) early this session, it’s helping to confirm a pivot and acceleration to the downside.

Bullish or bearish, it’s a crowded trade that we’re avoiding (not advice, not a recommendation).

It took over a week of oscillating price action before GDX decided to post below the February 4th, low.

Even so, when an established low is penetrated, it puts the market in “Wyckoff Spring Position’.

That means there’ll (potentially) be some type of rally or rally attempt. If that happens, it’s just more oscillations that result in erosion of leveraged inverse funds.

Other areas of the market are performing better on the downside. Real estate IYR, looks like it may post a narrow range day (as of mid-session).

It’s typical action when at support. If there’s no break lower today, then IYR could make an attempt higher at the next session.

Based on previous analysis, that attempt (if it occurs) is expected to be short lived.

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Silver on an Island

February 3, 2021 By in GME, Gold & Silver, SLV 1 Comment

The silver hype couldn’t even last for a single day.

Price opened gap-higher on Monday and then steadily eroded to close lower; posting a reversal bar on massive volume.

The next day, yesterday, the trap is shut. Island gap reversal.

Way back in Livermore’s time, in his (fictionalized) biography, he says the big players can’t get in and out whenever they want.

Their positions are so large, entering and exiting would cause huge moves in the market. They need to have an “event” with massive volume so as to hide their actions (entering or exiting).

The pre-market update on Monday proposed the whole kabuki theater with GME, then SLV could have just been a ruse for big players to establish massive SLV (or futures) short positions; or just plain exit out entirely.

That idea doesn’t sound so far fetched now.

We’ll have to see if it’s true at the next commitment of trader’s report.

Either way, it’s not really important to dive into the minutiae. We can just look at the chart.

As Prechter likes to call it, massive volume signifies a “changing of hands”. Most likely from strong to weak (i.e. from professional to retail).

The significance probably invisible to the public, this may be the inflection point.

Now that SLV’s at a potential long term pivot, we could be at the cusp of a deflation impulse.

Commodities (like oil) along with real estate, one of the most illiquid of all markets, get crushed in a downturn.

Stay Tuned

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SLV Up 10%, Can it Hold?

February 1, 2021 By in GLD, GOLD, Gold & Silver, SLV, zsl 3 Comments

The short answer is, probably not.

Is anyone looking at the technical condition? No, it’s all about ‘putting it to the man’.

In all of Wyckoff’s writings, he never once proposed the idea of taking the large controlling entities for a ride.

He was totally immersed in figuring out what those entities were trying to accomplish; then getting on the right side of the trade.

For all we know, the whole hedge fund blow-up, kabuki theater could have just been a sacrificial lamb (an inside job) targeting silver for a massive short opportunity.

How’s that for strategic thinking.

Right now, in the pre-market, SLV is right at new recovery highs.

The real question should be, ‘how long can the hype last?’

Can it finish the week at new highs and post a bearish divergence on the weekly MACD?

Price action itself will decide. What we do have, is risk being removed on the short side.

Inverse fund ZSL is down a stiff -21%. If there is a short, that’s the one to watch (not advice, not a recommendation).

It’s important to note, GLD is nowhere near a +10% move. It’s a non-confirmation on silver.

Separately, the overall markets are trading higher but appear to be under their prior session (daily) highs … indicating a short position in those markets is still viable.

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GDX: At Down-Trend

November 20, 2020 By in DUST, GDX, Gold & Silver

There’s a lot going on in the senior mining index, GDX.  Price action penetrated support yesterday and set up a spring (reversal) condition.

Today’s action is gap-up open with a test of the support level happening now (10:44 a.m. EST).

The chart shows the down-trend line and contact points. 

The magenta, dashed arrow is the location of the initial short position (not advice, not a recommendation) via the inverse fund DUST.

As price action was rising into the morning session (with DUST declining), the short position was increased by about 14%.  That area is shown as the orange dashed arrow.

We are looking for the spring action to fail and downtrend to resume.

If GDX closes lower for the day, we’ll move the DUST stop (not advice, not a recommendation) up to its session low; currently at 20.44.

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Gold Projections: Lower

November 16, 2020 By in DUST, GLD, Gold & Silver 1 Comment

In the overnight and early morning, gold futures GCZ20, posted a new daily high and a new daily low:  Outside down. 

Gold continues its move lower.

Before we can begin to get downside targets for gold, we have to go way back to the original start of the gold rally

Back to January 20th, 2001.

Gold reached a low near 254/oz – 255/oz. 

Using that knowledge, we can create a Fibonacci projection tool for the chart of GLD.

The GLD data on the chart does not go back that far.  So, we have to improvise.

Taking the Fib projection tool down to the 24 – 25 area of the chart and then identifying a major top of the move during the financial crisis of 2007 – 2008, gives us the chart shown below.

Expandable version of both charts, here

Note the multiple price action contact points on the 61.8 projection.  This area is an axis line.  The market oscillated around this area for nearly 10-years, before heading on to new all-time highs.

The axis lines and reversal points on the chart provide confirmation we have selected the price action waves correctly.

Using the same 25-area on GLD, we’re gong to remove the projection tool and use the retrace tool and then zoom in using the weekly chart.

That chart is below:

There is a lot going on with this chart.  Note the wide, high-volume bar.  Volume for that week was about double from the week prior.

Markets tend to go back to these areas for a test.

That area also represents a Fibonacci 38.2% retrace of the entire move off the February 2001, lows.

On top of that, a retrace to GLD 130, is a near exact -33% from the highs. 

If that weren’t enough, price action getting to that level would automatically set-up a Wyckoff spring (reversal) condition by penetrating the support area shown.

Will this all happen?  Obviously it’s unknown at this point. However, it does give us context.

As always, price action is the final arbiter.  We’re short on the GDX, the Major Miners via DUST (not advice, not a recommendation).  Our original stop was probably too tight at just 0.41 points from entry.

We’ll see how it works out.  Certainly, we are at another danger point.

Stay Tuned

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Impulse Power

November 15, 2020 By in DUST, GLD, Gold & Silver

Deflationary impulse is a term that is used to describe the potential decline in gold and silver prices.

If that’s what’s coming, it looks like it’s already started.

The weekly chart of GLD below, shows the long-term action in the sector. 

We have a trading range that formed during 2013 – 2019.  That range gave a projected ‘measured move’, to the 185-area for GLD.

The target has been met.  The bullish trade is over and now something else is being created.

That something from the circled area shown, expanded at the bottom of the chart, appears to be a reversal (Wyckoff up-thrust) condition.

The up-thrust was tested early in the reversal (first arrow) and this past week looks like a secondary test.  Secondary tests do happen.  Not too often but its acceptable market behavior.

In the updates here and here, the overnight futures price action was used to determine this past Friday, 13th, was a 38% retrace of the most recent down move; indicating weakness.

Anything can happen. GLD could open higher on Monday and somehow power its way through the down-trend line shown in Friday’s update.

However, probabilities based on the combined analysis point to continued downside action.

If we get a decline, how far would it go?

Price action permitting, we’ll cover downside targets in the Monday pre-market update.

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