Briefly: In our opinion, a speculative short position (full) in gold, silver and mining stocks is justified from the risk/reward point of view.
Gold, silver and mining stocks didn’t move much yesterday, but the lack of movement was enough to confirm the miners’ breakdown. The situation deteriorated from this perspective, but silver didn’t invalidate its breakout above the declining long-term resistance line. What are the overall implications?
With no changes in the gold market, let’s take a look at the mentioned two markets, starting with miners (charts courtesy of http://stockcharts.com).
The decline didn’t take place on high volume, but that was not required for the breakdown to be confirmed. Miners didn’t manage to move back above the rising support / resistance line after this week’s breakdown. This suggests that the rally in mining stocks is already over and lower values are to be expected. Since the entire precious metals sector usually moves in the same direction in the case of major moves, the implications are bearish for gold and silver as well.
Speaking about silver…
Silver hasn’t declined very significantly just yet (it hasn’t erased the entire previous rally yet, only it’s part), but that’s not what we should be expecting of it based on how silver performed right after the previous local top (in January). Back then silver declined initially, but not dramatically and it truly plunged several days after the first slide. Consequently, just because silver is not truly plunging just yet, there’s no reason to be thinking that the outlook for silver has improved.
With no changes in silver and gold and the confirmation of a breakdown in mining stocks, the overall outlook for the precious metals sector deteriorated, but not significantly.
Overall, since not much changed yesterday, we can summarize today’s alert in a similar way to what we wrote yesterday:
Summing up, the situation in the precious metals market deteriorated yesterday, but not very significantly. We still have to see the invalidation of the silver’s breakout before we can say that the corrective upswing is (very likely) over. Silver moved right to the declining resistance/support line, so it seems that it will break below it any day now. The mining stocks have confirmed the move below their rising support line, which does not bode well for the short term. The overall outlook for the precious metals sector remains bearish – it seems that the final bottom is still ahead of us.
We will keep you – our subscribers – updated.
To summarize:
Trading capital (our opinion): Short (full position) position in gold, silver and mining stocks is justified from the risk/reward perspective with the following stop-loss orders and initial (!) target prices:
- Gold: initial target price: $1,115; stop-loss: $1,253, initial target price for the DGLD ETN: $87.00; stop loss for the DGLD ETN $63.78
- Silver: initial target price: $15.10; stop-loss: $18.13, initial target price for the DSLV ETN: $67.81; stop loss for DSLV ETN $38.44
- Mining stocks (price levels for the GDX ETN): initial target price: $16.63; stop-loss: $21.83, initial target price for the DUST ETN: $23.59; stop loss for the DUST ETN $10.37
In case one wants to bet on lower junior mining stocks' prices, here are the stop-loss details and initial target prices:
- GDXJ: initial target price: $21.17; stop-loss: $28.68
- JDST: initial target price: $14.35; stop-loss: $5.65
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.
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