Gold moved slightly higher yesterday, but we can't say the same about mining stocks. They have been underperforming the yellow metal for several days now. Experienced investors know what this means... Meanwhile, the USD Index declined a bit but didn't invalidate the previous support line. This, plus another important factor for the U.S. currency provides us with 2 scenarios for the USD and in today's alert we discuss their implications for gold investors and traders.

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Yesterday was a session unlike the previous ones. The entire precious metals sector declined, even gold, and at the same time the USD Index moved visibly higher. Has the situation become much more bearish based on the above? Or perhaps the correction is over and what we saw was the final stop before the real rally? You'll find our thoughts on this topic in today's Gold & Silver Trading Alert.

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Gold moved up yesterday but silver and mining stocks actually declined at the same time. In other words, their underperformance has become more visible. How much does that change?

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Gold moved up yesterday but silver and mining stocks moved only slightly higher. Of course, the signals that we saw in the junior sector and on which we commented in yesterday’s alert remain in place – they didn’t expire based on a daily small move higher. The signals that are based on patterns that have been present for at least 4 years help to detect major declines and, compared to previous declines following such signals, the move higher that we saw in gold yesterday was almost nonexistent. The most significant technical development was seen for the GDX ETF. The ETF corrected exactly 61.8% of the August 2013 - December 2013 decline...

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We've seen a rather significant rally in the junior mining stocks in recent weeks and it has been accompanied by huge volume. This sounds like a bullish piece of information but when we compare juniors' performance with that of other stocks and measure the dynamics, it turns out that we've seen similar action in the past shortly before local tops and declines. Is this time any different?

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