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Cyclical Bear in Stocks, a Catalyst for Gold and Silver

Commodities / Gold and Silver 2014 Jan 30, 2014 - 05:58 AM GMT

By: Jordan_Roy_Byrne

Commodities

The non-static, changing correlation between precious metals and equities is something we’ve written about several times in the past few years. We last wrote about this in June in Epic Opportunity in the Gold Stocks. The mainstream is entirely oblivious to the fact that gold stocks (and precious metals) can have rip-roaring bull markets when equities are in a bear market. The precursor to this is two-fold: precious metals are in a secular bull and the correlation between the two has been negative for more than a year. The current negative correlation has been in place for more than two years and now gold stocks have bottomed (in our view) and equities are looking toppy.


There are several examples of this negative correlation. Gold stocks soared from 1973-1974 when the S&P 500 was cut in half. The same thing happened from 2000 to 2002. Also, gold stocks for over 18 months in 1977-1978 began a new cyclical bull market while the S&P 500 declined 19%. This scenario has happened three times: twice in the last bull market and once in the current bull market.

Recent market action suggests that this negative correlation will continue but in favor of precious metals and also hard assets. In the chart below we plot the S&P 500, GDX and CCI (commodities). Since the end of summer in 2011 there has been a clear negative correlation between equities and gold stocks as well as equities and commodities. The tide appears to be shifting as today GDX closed at a two-month high while the S&P 500 closed at a two-month low. A few days ago, CCI closed at a two and a half month high.

This price action shouldn’t come as a surprise as global markets and asset classes are ripe for a shift. The bull market in the S&P is already quite mature while hard assets have been in a cyclical bear for nearly three years. Sentiment on equities (according to the Merrill Lynch fund manager survey, Investors Intelligence or NAAIM data) has been extremely bullish and in some cases even more so than in 2007. Meanwhile, sentiment on bonds (which are also rallying), commodities and precious metals has been extremely bearish since last summer making these markets ripe for a strong reversal.

 Keep an eye on the gold stocks as they’ve been leading the metals and have a tendency to rebound substantially from important bottoms. The chart below shows that GDX is facing a confluence of trendline resistance here at $24. If GDX breaks to the upside then there is no major resistance until $30. That is another potential 25% upside. Your stop-out point could be support at $22.

Conventional thinking could lead you to believe that equity weakness would be a negative for precious metals. While that was the case in 2008, the negative correlation from 2011-2013 and recent price action suggest precious metals (and gold stocks in particular) will benefit from a bear market in equities. Gold stocks have already endured a multi-year bear market. Large-caps shed 65% while juniors lost 80%. Everyone has already sold out of precious metals and piled into US and developed market equities. However, we are seeing signs that the trend is shifting. Over the past month GDX is up 18% and GDXJ is up 27%.  As long as the 50-day moving averages hold, we expect continued gains in the coming weeks and months.

If you'd be interested in professional guidance in this endeavor, then we invite you to learn more about our service.

Good Luck!

Email: Jordan@TheDailyGold.com
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Bio: Jordan Roy-Byrne, CMT  is a Chartered Market Technician, a member of the Market Technicians Association and from 2010-2013 an official contributor to the CME Group, the largest futures exchange in the world. He is the publisher and editor of TheDailyGold Premium, a publication which emphaszies market timing and stock selection for the sophisticated investor.  Jordan's work has been featured in CNBC, Barrons, Financial Times Alphaville, and his editorials are regularly published in 321gold, Gold-Eagle, FinancialSense, GoldSeek, Kitco and Yahoo Finance. He is quoted regularly in Barrons. Jordan was a speaker at PDAC 2012, the largest mining conference in the world.

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