Gold Price To Re-Test $2,700

By: P_Radomski_CFA

That’s an interesting situation that we have today. Gold us up, but silver and miners are down. What gives?

In short, it’s almost certainly all about the temporary impact from the stock market. The S&P 500 Index is down today. Not significantly, but enough to make the parts of the precious metals market more linked to it underperform.

Mining Stocks: Strength in the Current Setup

GDXJ is down by 0.95% so far today while the GDX is only down by 0.65% - and that’s perfectly normal given stocks’ move lower. After all, junior miners are more linked to stocks than senior miners are. This is also the reason as to why I’m currently writing about being long GDX and not GDXJ, while it will be GDXJ that I will focus on shorting soon.

On a side note, the GDX is up by 6.08% so far this week while the GDXJ is up by 5.81% - it seems that my selection of the proxy for going long was correct.

Are stocks done rallying here? This might be the case, but I get the feeling that we’ll see another quick move up soon and that we’re going to see the opposite in the USD Index. The latter is the reason for both. After all, cheaper dollar means more competitive exports for the U.S. economy.



The USDX is after reaching my first upside target, but it didn’t correct to the green buy area yet.



Today’s rally might be the B part of the ABC (zigzag) decline. Please note that we saw the same thing at the beginning of this month. The USDX rallied visibly for one day and then it continued to move lower with the bottom forming two trading days after the daily rally.

The history rhymes, so we could see something like that in the following days as well.

Also, today’s gold-USD reaction (gold is up despite a move higher in the USD) makes me think that the rally in the former is not over yet even though it is already within my previous target area.



Based on today’s breakout above the declining, short-term resistance line and the above-mentioned gold-USD link, it seems that gold can really move all the way up to $2,700 (which is also its 61.8% Fibonacci retracement for this correction) before the top is in.

The near-term outlook is bullish and now it’s clear that the bottom indeed formed when I wrote about it on Thursday. Of course, the focus is on the “near term” here, and the below chart featuring world stocks shows why this should be the case.



First of all, we saw an invalidation of the move above the previous highs in world stocks.

Second, we saw that when the USD Index started to rally after being severely beaten up and when the sentiment for it was very bad (and everyone and their brother kept repeating various reasons for “de-dollarization”).

The latter is important because it shows that it’s not “just a decline from the same price levels” that makes the current situation like the 2007/2008 and 2022 tops.

It could be the case that tariffs that Donald Trump is proposing are being discounted in the price and world stocks fall in result. After all, despite political reasons for them, this is something that is likely to be bad for the international trade, and thus many of the world economies could be affected.

And what happened in both above-mentioned cases when world stocks fell? The mining stocks truly plunged. And this, my friends, is the likely outlook for the following months, despite the current corrective upswing.

Still, for now, it seems that the profits from our long positions will increase some more before we close them.

Corrections like the current are useful not just because they can be profitable, but because they can tell you which parts of a given market or sector are likely to fall when the next move lower takes place.

Copper and Broader Commodities

As you know, I’ve been commenting on the bearish potential of FCX, and given the size of its upswing right now, all those bearish points remain up-to-date.



Please note how weak the current move up is. It’s not even halfway to the first of the classic Fibonacci retracement levels – the 38.2% one.

Once we see another move lower in copper (and we’re likely to see it), FCX is likely to break below the neck level of the head and shoulders top pattern and then decline in a truly profound manner.



Why am I writing about copper here? One is because FCX and copper itself offer great shorting opportunities in my view, but the other is that copper and precious metals tend to be aligned during the really big moves and given that copper is on the verge of invalidating the move above its 2006 high, it seems that the decline that is going to follow will not be minor.

In the near term both: copper and FCX could move higher, though. The same is the case with crude oil which might form the inverse head-and-shoulders pattern here (as Anna discussed in today’s Oil Trading Alert, which we’re making free for you as a courtesy).

Naturally, the above is up-to-date at the moment when it was written. When the outlook changes, I’ll provide an update. If you’d like to read it as well as other exclusive gold and silver price analyses, I encourage you to sign up for our free gold newsletter.

Przemyslaw Radomski, CFA

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