Category Archives: SLV

Silver Breakout?

June 3, 2025 By in GDX, GDXJ, Gold & Silver, Gold Miners, JDST, JDST-25-12, Positions, SLV, ZeroHedge

Gold & Silver Miners (shorts) Capitulate?

Did the shorts just run for the exits?

Yesterday’s hysteria created yet another potential (sustainable) silver breakout, maybe.

Silver Surges: Breaking out of Triangle Pattern to New Highs in 2025, link here.

Producing another rush by the herd, attempting to trade what’s already happened.

The Silver Squeeze Awakens: Options Market Screams for More, link here.

The last update said ‘today could be the day’ … the day we get a downside reversal in the miners.

Instead, we have potential JDST short-side capitulation; with inference of GDXJ, downside (not advice, not a recommendation).

Junior Miners 2X Leveraged Inverse Fund JDST, Daily

Today is an important day.

Will we get follow-through on GDXJ (up) and JDST (down), or will the hysteria fade?

If this really is a silver squeeze, one would expect the market (SLV) to scream ever-higher (not advice, not a recommendation).

Stay Tuned

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Sunday Night Futures

May 4, 2025 By in CLM25, GLD, Gold & Silver, Gold Miners, Oil, Oil & Gas, SLV, XOP Tags: 1 Comment

Gold, Silver & The Oil Patch

We’re about three-hours into the Sunday overnight session and here’s what’s happening, and what’s not.

Both gold and silver are holding steady; oil, has opened gap-down, trading lower by -3.4%.

Yesterday’s update showed the oil patch to be ‘exceptionally’ weak. The Sunday night open, is confirming that assessment (not advice, not a recommendation).

Market Directed Action

The market itself tells us where to go for opportunity.

At this point, it’s telling us to focus on the oil sector.

Looking at the futures contract, CLM25, there’s not a single major gap that has not been filled or nearly filled.

That tells us, probabilities point to some kind of upward move (to close the gap) which in turn, tells us to monitor the sector (ETF) index, XOP.

Stay Tuned

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Miners, Call It Quits

May 2, 2025 By in GDX, GDXJ, GLD, Gold & Silver, Gold Miners, JDST, JDST-25-10, Positions, SILJ, SLV

For Now, At Least

All three index ETFs, GDX, GDXJ, and SILJ, posting lower, with the silver miners down the most.

The lower action couples with lower silver (SLV) and nearly lower gold (GLD).

For Junior Miners GDXJ, as of this post (12:28 p.m., EST), it’s showing ‘outside down’.

Junior Miners GDXJ, Daily

It’s important to note, yesterday’s update said there would (likely) be an attempt to move higher.

That’s what happened; then, price action reversed.

The chart shows how short position, JDST-25-10, is being managed. Lowering the stop (higher for JDST) in the direction of the trade (not advice, not a recommendation).

Note, work has already been done on potential, significant reversal for gold and on-going, languishing of silver: Links here, here, here, here and here (not advice, not a recommendation).

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Gold’s Parabolic Top

April 26, 2025 By in GDX, GDXJ, GLD, Gold & Silver, Gold Miners, JDST, JDST-25-10, Positions, SILJ, SLV, ZeroHedge 2 Comments

Mass Liquidations?

During gold’s (GLD) way to the top, or potential top, it has posted gap-higher, after gap-higher.

That is, until now.

This past week, it has come down to fill one of the gaps.

Is this the start of other downside fills?

Before we look at the chart of GLD, let’s review a prior commodity blow-off top.

We’ll chose silver (SLV), for this example.

Silver SLV, 3-Day

There’s a lot going on in this chart.

First, this is what a commodity blow-off looks like.

Second, once this happens with volume, there’s been a significant ‘changing of hands’; it takes a long time to recover.

In fact, here we are, fourteen years later and silver SLV, has yet to reach the levels of early May 2011.

Prices are still far below, even with non-stop propaganda, experts, and grifters cheering it on.

Now, we’ll put up the chart of gold GLD.

Gold GLD, Weekly

The last time GLD posted a Force Index of 1.8B, was back in 2011, just before the last major top.

It’s important to note, the huge reading in Force Index, did not come at the exact top. It came before the top.

We’re in a similar situation. The massive Force Index reading has already posted (not advice, not a recommendation).

Then, two weeks later, we have near record liquidations in the GLD, ETF, link here.

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Are The Miners Exhausted?

April 25, 2025 By in GDX, GDXJ, GLD, Gold & Silver, Gold Miners, JDST, JDST-25-10, Positions, SLV 1 Comment

We’re About To Find Out

It’s been a wild ride for gold, silver, and the miners.

This week, gold (GLD) posted a weekly reversal bar as did senior and junior miners, GDX, GDXJ.

Silver miners SILJ, posted an up-thrust reversal after meeting the target identified in this update.

For over a year, this site, if not outright negative on silver (SLV), has at least been ‘non-bullish’ as the metal can’t seem to get out of its own way.

So far, nothing has changed on that front (not advice, not a recommendation).

Junior Miners GDXJ, Daily

With gold posting what looks to be a typical commodity blow-off top, it leaves the miners in a potentially vulnerable position (not advice, not a recommendation).

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Bear Market = Wealth Transfer

April 14, 2025 By in 1987, GDX, GDXJ, GLD, Gold & Silver, Gold Miners, JDST, JDST-25-09, LABD, LABD-25-06, Positions, SILJ, SLV, Spring-to-Up-Thrust, Uneducated Economist Tags: , , , 1 Comment

The ‘Extraction’ Process

Bear markets are not (always) prices going straight down, a la 1987.

Bear markets are ‘price destruction’; a series of ups and downs that effectively drain (whipsaw) the typical market account.

The last two weeks have seen record breaking extremes; the latest being this update, indicating the market posted the largest volume ever recorded.

Dodging Bullets

A case in point, this site’s narrow miss on having a huge gain (LABD-25-06, short biotech) being completely obliterated in last week’s largest short squeeze, ever.

It’s (almost) a ‘no-brainer’, this type of market behavior is not bullish (not advice, not a recommendation).

Then, The Propaganda

If it’s not dodging bullets, it’s sifting through the propaganda, half-truths, and outright lies.

The latest of these, (could be) ‘China dumping dollars’ and other ‘collapse’ narratives.

There’s volatility for sure. That’s what bear markets are about. However, this link might help mitigate the hysteria around the ‘It’s all blowing up’ narrative (not advice, not a recommendation).

In the above link, how it really works, time stamp: 17:58

So, here we are. What’s next?

Gold & Silver, Update

Even though both gold (GLD), and silver (SLV), are trading lower as of this post (12:52 p.m., EST), the Junior Miners GDXJ, posted a new daily high, thus, short JDST-25-09, was exited (not advice, not a recommendation).

Today’s activity does point to a new potential (developing) set-up, this time, silver miners SILJ.

Silver Miners SILJ, Daily

The set-up (spring-to-up-thrust) may develop from here, or it could diffuse into chaos.

It remains a possibility, until price action itself says, ‘no’.

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Sunday Night Futures

April 13, 2025 By in GDX, GDXJ, GLD, Gold & Silver, JDST, JDST-25-09, Positions, SLV

Gold & Silver, Update

We’re about two hours into the overnight session.

Gold (GCM25) is holding steady with a marginal decline.

Silver (SIK25) has posted a characteristic opening ‘spike’ reversal (5-minute bar), threatening to move lower.

At this juncture, the important part, is what’s not happening.

That is, neither metal has had a (significant) gap-higher open; they are not continuing their unabated advances.

For silver, we’re going to update the SLV, ETF, chart.

Silver SLV, Daily

As of this post, the (futures equivalent) ETF close of last Friday (29.19), is holding.

Trading is still at the 61.8%, Fibonacci retrace.

From a positioning standpoint, this sector (precious metals) is already held short via the Junior’s leveraged inverse JDST (not advice, not a recommendation).

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Gold’s Breathless Break … Higher

April 12, 2025 By in David Weis, Dr. Elder, GLD, Gold & Silver, Gold Miners, JDST, JDST-25-09, Positions, SLV, ZeroHedge Tags: , , ,

Was Friday, The Last Gasp?

Another market, stretched to the extreme.

Will gold (GLD) pause or even reverse?

To answer that question, or at least look at the probabilities, let’s step away from the breathless, me-too herd, and see what’s really going on.

Silver, One Year Later

Before we get to what the crowd’s doing now, as a reminder, last year at this time (the crowd said), silver was supposed to be launching into a hyperinflationary breakout.

Remember that? Well, it didn’t happen. 🙂

This site posted for months, price action itself (SLV) indicated the probabilities were low for a sustained breakout, starting with this link.

However, there are times when the masses are correct. Is this one of those times?

Let’s take a look.

First, The Hysteria

To get a gage on what’s going on, we have a sample of the current mind-set, listed below.

‘Sell America’ Trade Sparks Gold-Rush, Dollar Crush As US Bond Yields Surge Most In 43 Years, link here.

Gold Euphoria, Bond Mayhem, Dollar Disgrace, link here.

The Asymmetric Gold Trade, link here.

Markets Live: Gold & Bitcoin Soar As ‘Sell America’ Trade Escalates, link here.

Citi’s Former Global Strat Head: Gold More Room To Run, link here.

Futures Flat, Gold Soars, Dollar Crashes After China Hikes US Tariffs To 125%, link here.

Gold Hits Record High As Dollar Dumps; Stocks & Commodities Remain ‘Tariff-ied’, link here.

Now, Reality, The Price Action

As with silver (SLV), we’re going to look at the characteristics of the gold (GLD) market to determine what’s likely to happen next.

Gold GLD, Daily Close

As David Weis used to say: “What do you see?”

The lower panel is Elder’s ‘Force Index’.

What we can see is that GLD, has met the characteristics, the set-up, that in the past resulted in a reversal (not advice, not a recommendation).

Hysteria on Steroids

Could gold go even higher from here?

Absolutely. Anything can happen.

When looking at the situation rationally, is this the spot where price action could stall, or even reverse?

As with silver, the price action itself says, conditions are in place for that potential (not advice, not a recommendation).

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Miners … In … Mid … Air

April 11, 2025 By in GDX, GDXJ, GLD, Gold & Silver, Gold Miners, JDST, JDST-25-09, Positions, SLV

Exhaustion Gap?

For Junior Miners GDXJ, it’s either a sustained breakout higher, or an exhaustion gap; years in the making.

As can be seen in the chart, we’re leaning towards exhaustion (not advice, not a recommendation).

Either way, the situation (as of 11:15 a.m., EST) for both bulls and bears, is at The Danger Point®

Junior Miners, GDXJ, Daily

We’re in mid-air.

The MACD, itself says, from a momentum standpoint, the current position is weak.

From a positioning standpoint, there have been several interations to short this sector.

As can be seen in the side bar, another short, JDST-25-09, is now open (not advice, not a recommendation).

Depending on price action, more updates to follow.

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Gold … Sell The News?

March 16, 2025 By in David Weis, GDX, GDXJ, GLD, Gold & Silver, Gold Miners, JDST, JDST-25-05, Positions, SILJ, SLV, Spring-to-Up-Thrust, Wyckoff

Hours Away

We’re just hours away from the Sunday futures open.

Yesterday, military attacks on Houthi rebels have commenced; links here, here, and here.

Middle East conflict escalates.

The question is, will the markets see it that way?

Will it be ‘escalation’, with gold futures ever higher, or is it ‘buy the rumor, sell the news’?

If we’re looking at potential gold/silver related downside, then let’s review the miners; they’ve been in a bear market for nearly five years (not advice, not a recommendation).

Junior Miners, GDXJ, Weekly Close

Before getting to the right side of the chart, let’s start with the ‘Time’s Up’, arrow; a reversal and decline over 50%.

That ‘arrow’ corresponds to this post.

At this point, gold and the miners appear to be stretched with silver currently in non-confirmation.

If it was really (simple) inflation, it would be like the 1980s, with both moving in tandem.

Then & Now

With that, what has GDXJ, done in the past?

The chart itself shows us it tends to exhibit a repeating pattern of Wyckoff ‘spring-to-up-thrust’.

We may know within hours if gold, silver, and the miners, are going to reverse or launch into some kind of extended rally (not advice, not a recommendation).

Stay Tuned

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