Briefly: In our opinion, short (full) speculative positions in gold, silver and mining stocks are justified from the risk/reward point of view.
This alert is going to be a very short one as the precious metals market simply paused yesterday. Consequently, the outlook is exactly as we described it yesterday and we have nothing new to comment on. If you just subscribed to our alerts, we encourage you to read yesterday’s alert as it discusses the current situation in greater detail.
Consequently, today’s alert is extremely short, actually just a repeat of the yesterday’s alert’s summary. We will post an update as soon as it is required, but that is not the case today.
Summing up, even though we could see some temporary strength in the precious metals sector, it doesn’t seem that adjusting our position is justified from the risk to reward point of view. The – uncertain – rally could be a very temporary event (so if one follows, it will not change much, if anything) and if we exit our short positions during the rally, we might not be able to re-enter positions at better prices than those at which we have exited them. It seems best to focus on the medium-term move which seems much more probable than a short-term rally – in fact, we have just seen a few important confirmations that the next big move in the precious metals sector will be down and our – already significant – profits from this trade will become even bigger.
Other than the above, there’s not much that we can say today – not because we don’t want to comment at all, but simply because our yesterday’s comments continue to correctly describe the situation.
As always, 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 initial (! – this means that reaching them doesn’t automatically close the position) target prices:
- Gold: initial target price: $1,050; stop-loss: $1,213, initial target price for the DGLD ETN: $98.37; stop loss for the DGLD ETN $65.60
- Silver: initial target price: $12.60; stop-loss: $16.73, initial target price for the DSLV ETN: $96.67; stop loss for DSLV ETN $40.28
- Mining stocks (price levels for the GDX ETN): initial target price: $11.57; stop-loss: $17.33, initial target price for the DUST ETN: $41.10; stop loss for the DUST ETN $8.54
In case one wants to bet on junior mining stocks' prices (we do not suggest doing so – we think senior mining stocks are more predictable in the case of short-term trades – if one wants to do it anyway, we provide the details), here are the stop-loss details and initial target prices:
- GDXJ: initial target price: $16.27; stop-loss: $24.33
- JDST: initial target price: $16.98; stop-loss: $3.42
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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