They say that the partially informed investors are just as effective as partially trained surgeons – they will only hurt themselves and those around them. You don’t want to have just some information – you want and need to have a clear overview of the situation on the corresponding markets even if you’re focused on making transactions on just one or few of them. Of course, one can do both: buy and sell without the above, but they would be robbing themselves from the opportunity to get more information that would push the odds of growing their capital in the long run significantly higher. And if it’s known (obvious?) that this is how things work in case of the trades that take longer than just a couple of hours, then it’s becoming unethical for one to ignore the signs coming from the other markets. What can the current values of the USD Index tell us? What about stocks? And the CoT numbers - what hidden information can we find between them?

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Gold and silver ended last week at new highs. But mining stocks didn’t just rally less. The GDX ETF declined by almost 2%. It also formed a weekly reversal for the third week in a row. Since miners are the only part of the PM sector that’s not rallying, gold and silver investors can relax assuming that these metals will continue to rally nonetheless, right? Very wrong.

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Gold’s negative link with the general stock market appears to be broken as both rallied yesterday. Did the outlook become bullish because of that? Are we seeing a repeat of 2016 after all?

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Silver soared, miners declined, and gold first rallied, and then declined. Which of them should one trust? Yesterday’s chaotic session might seem perplexing or scary at first, but it was actually a combination of several important signs that made it clear, which side of the market it’s critical to be on. Yesterday’s session was not a curse, but a late gift. Let’s unwrap it.

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