Briefly: In our opinion, short (full) speculative positions in gold, silver and mining stocks are justified from the risk/reward point of view.
Today’s alert (unlike the several previous ones) is going to be very brief. The reason is that nothing changed on the precious metals market yesterday and practically everything that we wrote in yesterday’s alert remains up-to-date. Consequently, if you haven’t had the chance to read yesterday’s alert so far, please do so today.
The move higher in gold, silver and mining stocks was relatively small yesterday. It was small relative to the size of the preceding decline and it was small relative to the size of the move lower in the USD Index. The latter was quite visible, as USD erased more or less 3 previous daily upswings, but gold was not even close to erasing one third of just Monday’s decline. The same goes for mining stocks. This kind of action looks very much like a pause within a downtrend – not a beginning of a post-bottom rally. The implications are bearish and the outlook remains bearish as well.
Since nothing changed, we will summarize today’s alert exactly how we summarized the yesterday’s issue:
Summing up, the situation in the precious metals market is critical and it seems that we will get a corrective upswing relatively soon as there is too much negativity regarding gold in the mainstream media. The odds are that this will not be the final bottom, but a local one. The coming move higher, however, is something that we would like to trade. Consequently, we are adjusting our target levels in our speculative positions (below) and we are changing them from “initial target prices” to “profit-take orders”. This means that when these levels are hit, we think the positions should be exited (as it will seem justified from the risk/reward perspective).
We might consider going long with the speculative capital or even getting back in the market with part of the long-term investment capital, but we are not doing so right now. In other words, we might make changes in the long-term investment part of the portfolio but that’s not certain.
On a side note, if you’re not familiar with the way we choose individual gold stocks and silver stocks, we suggest that you become familiar with our tools: Golden StockPicker and Silver StockPicker – these are the tools that we will utilize to select miners to buy when getting back on the long side of the market, as they have greatly enhanced the performance of the simple buy-and-hold approach.
We will keep you – our subscribers – updated.
To summarize:
Trading capital (our opinion): Short position (full) position in gold, silver and mining stocks is justified from the risk/reward perspective with the following stop-loss orders and profit-take orders:
- Gold: profit-take order: $1,053; stop-loss: $1,208, profit-take order for the DGLD ETN: $99.92; stop loss for the DGLD ETN $66.49
- Silver: profit-take order: $14.33; stop-loss: $17.11, profit-take order for the DSLV ETN: $75.46; stop loss for DSLV ETN $38.32
- Mining stocks (price levels for the GDX ETN): profit-take order: $12.33; stop-loss: $18.73, profit-take order for the DUST ETN: $46.46; stop loss for the DUST ETN $14.08
In case one wants to bet on lower junior mining stocks' prices (we do not suggest doing so – we think senior mining stocks are more predictable in case of short-term trades – we if one wants to do it anyway, we provide the details), here are the stop-loss details and initial target prices:
- GDXJ: profit-take order: $16.73; stop-loss: $25.78
- JDST: profit-take order: $21.67; stop-loss: $5.79
Long-term capital (our opinion): No positions
Insurance capital (our opinion): Full position
Please note that a full position doesn’t mean using all of the capital for a given trade. You will find details on our thoughts on gold portfolio structuring in the Key Insights section on our website.
As a reminder – “initial target price” means exactly that – an “initial” one, it’s not a price level at which we suggest closing positions. If this becomes the case (like it did in the previous trade) we will refer to these levels as levels of exit orders (exactly as we’ve done previously). Stop-loss levels, however, are naturally not “initial”, but something that, in our opinion, might be entered as an order.
Since it is impossible to synchronize target prices and stop-loss levels for all the ETFs and ETNs with the main markets that we provide these levels for (gold, silver and mining stocks – the GDX ETF), the stop-loss levels and target prices for other ETNs and ETF (among other: UGLD, DGLD, USLV, DSLV, NUGT, DUST, JNUG, JDST) are provided as supplementary, and not as “final”. This means that if a stop-loss or a target level is reached for any of the “additional instruments” (DGLD for instance), but not for the “main instrument” (gold in this case), we will view positions in both gold and DGLD as still open and the stop-loss for DGLD would have to be moved lower. On the other hand, if gold moves to a stop-loss level but DGLD doesn’t, then we will view both positions (in gold and DGLD) as closed. In other words, since it’s not possible to be 100% certain that each related instrument moves to a given level when the underlying instrument does, we can’t provide levels that would be binding. The levels that we do provide are our best estimate of the levels that will correspond to the levels in the underlying assets, but it will be the underlying assets that one will need to focus on regarding the sings pointing to closing a given position or keeping it open. We might adjust the levels in the “additional instruments” without adjusting the levels in the “main instruments”, which will simply mean that we have improved our estimation of these levels, not that we changed our outlook on the markets. We are already working on a tool that would update these levels on a daily basis for the most popular ETFs, ETNs and individual mining stocks.
Our preferred ways to invest in and to trade gold along with the reasoning can be found in the how to buy gold section. Additionally, our preferred ETFs and ETNs can be found in our Gold & Silver ETF Ranking.
As always, we'll keep you - our subscribers - updated should our views on the market change. We will continue to send out Gold & Silver Trading Alerts on each trading day and we will send additional Alerts whenever appropriate.
The trading position presented above is the netted version of positions based on subjective signals (opinion) from your Editor, and the Tools and Indicators.
As a reminder, Gold & Silver Trading Alerts are posted before or on each trading day (we usually post them before the opening bell, but we don't promise doing that each day). If there's anything urgent, we will send you an additional small alert before posting the main one.
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