Friday, 25 August 2017

Precious Metals

Gold (GLD) briefly made new highs above $1,300, but couldn’t follow through. The reaction may look slightly bearish, but perhaps this was expected after a rally of nearly $100 from the July lows.


Silver (SLV) on the other hand seemed to break-out and should now rally to at least $17.75.
A move to below last week’s low of $16.50 is a failed break like we saw in April r and there’s not much point to be long below there (at least no in the short term).

As the price moved below $47.58, it flushed out some of the late bulls, and we now have this count as the primary view.

There was a very nice reaction from $46.50, where wave C and wave A were equal, but does this mean that the correction is over? Perhaps, but here is a follow up from the chart from the 10th of August highs (and was included in last week’s newsletter).

Oil is trading in a choppy range for over a year and we’re not sure there’s any reason for that condition to change, but we believe it could still work its way lower in the coming weeks for a buying opportunity at sub $45.

There’s not too much to say about Gas this week, but the shape and characteristics of this pullback is encouraging those who are long.

So far this August, we have a strong move up followed by a choppy, slow decline. However, this corrective sequence in gas has been so persistent we cannot say we have hit bottom until there is a sustained move above $3.

Yes, we see it too; this could go up or could go down, but the point is you don’t have to do anything right now. A trading opportunity comes at $2.70 or after a move above $3.

So that we are clear, none of this alters our longer-term view of a rally above $4, although Q1 2018 may be too soon for this call (could be Q2 but timing is always difficult)

Last week we called for ‘a dip to the 78.30% Fib at 92.7 and that looks like a decent spot to try going long’, which was decent in the short term (the weekly low was 92.73), but let’s look at the bigger picture:

We can see here that the C wave rally last week may have completed the correction and the dollar looks about ready for the final decline to below 91.

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