There is alot of action going on this week in the different areas of the markets. The PM complex has been rallying, the US dollar tanking and the stock markets trying to make up their mind about which way they want to go in the short term. I’m going to show you what I would like to see happen on the HUI, gold and silver.
If the PM complex is bottoming right now it will have to show us its hand. There is no way around it. Usually when a bottom or top is formed, the first move out of the reversal pattern—after a possible backtest—should be very strong or impulsive in nature. The bigger and stronger the move is, the better.
Below is a weekly chart for the HUI with few annotations on it so you can see the clean picture. Most of the time you will either see some type of H&S reversal pattern or double top or bottom reversal pattern.
The best reversal pattern for the HUI at this point is the double bottom, with the first bottom having formed last August and the second 2 1/2 weeks ago. If this possible double bottom is going to play out, I want to see the double bottom hump or double bottom trendline broken to the upside.
Then, after a possible backtest to the double bottom hump at 140 or so, we need to see a strong impulse move up to the brown shaded support and resistance zone between 190 and 205. We may see some reverse symmetry as shown by the red arrows. If the HUI can make it up to the brown shaded S&R zone it will be due a breather and some type of consolidation pattern will build out. We should also see a fib retrace of 38%, 50% or 62% of the rally out of the second bottom at 100 or so. This would be the perfect setup.
Below is a weekly chart for gold which shows the price action out of the 2008 crash low. The top of that trading range came in around the 1030 area as shown by the brown shaded S&R zone. On the right hand side of the chart you can see the blue falling wedge, the pattern from hell, with the possible 7th reversal point forming just above the brown shaded S&R zone.
With seven reversal points in play, and if gold can break out above the top rail, then the almost three year falling wedge would be a reversal pattern to the upside. That big falling wedge reversal pattern should give gold a lot of energy to rally. So if gold is bottoming in here, then it has to show us the way by taking it one step at a time.
This next chart for gold is one I’ve shown before because it displays important moving averages. Yesterday gold closed above the key 200DMA with only the 300DMA left above. It’s going to take some time to turn all these moving averages around like after the 2008 crash low but once they’re all nicely aligned to the upside they will show us the major trend.
This next chart of the SPDR Gold Shares ETF (N:GLD) is one I showed last week. You can see the one year double trendline downtrend channel with the pink numbers on it. Gold closed right on the outside dashed trendline yesterday, completing the seventh reversal point with the 65 week moving average just above at 111.20.
This next chart is another one I showed last week. It has the Fib retracements on it. The previous decline—labeled with black arrows—retraced 62% of that move before gold fell lower. The blue arrows show the Fib retrace of the last down move. As you can see, yesterday gold closed above the 62% retrace, which is a positive.
Also notice how it's reversing symmetry back up, as shown by the red arrows. It looks like the brown shaded S&R zone between 1170 and 1180 should be the next place to look for some resistance to show up.
Here is the other chart for gold I showed last week, that just has the black dashed support and resistance lines on it. The blue bullish rising wedge just became apparent yesterday when the price action took out the top rail.
This last chart for gold is a long term monthly chart. It's something we’ve been following for several years, which shows the brown shaded S&R zones with the 10 month EMA.
When I first built this chart I labeled it as a reverse symmetry chart because I was expecting the bear market to resemble the bull market to a certain degree. It did at first, when gold initially bottomed at the brown S&R zone labeled #3.
From that point however, the reverse symmetry went out the window as the blue falling wedge took over. These same numbers have been on the chart since the first day I built it.
The 4th S&R zone is between 985 and 1034 which is taken from the top in 2008 and 2009. This month is still very young yet, but gold is trading above the 10 month EMA which has done a good job of holding support during the bull market years, and resistance during the bear market years. The only change I’ve made on this chart, and that was just now, is I’ve adjusted the bottom rail of the blue falling wedge to fit the bottoms better. Is $1034 going to be the actual low?
Now let's take a quick look at silver, which looks like it broke out of a nice base yesterday. You can call the price action anything you want below the S&R line, but that S&R line is now our line in the sand; Above is bullish and below is bearish. There was a nice increase in volume yesterday as well.
Below is an old chart I just dug up which shows the old blue rectangle that broke down in April of 2011. At the time the blue rectangle was forming, I showed how the center dashed line works as support and resistance.
Notice the last two blue arrows inside the rectangle just before silver broke below the bottom rail. First silver got a little pop off of the dashed center line, and then the drop through the center line with one last backtest. That was the start of the major impulse move down.
Now let's look at the price action which has made up the black falling wedge. As I’ve mentioned many times, a chart pattern can be made up of several smaller consolidation patterns before it finishes building out. The first consolidation pattern that formed inside the black falling wedge was the blue triangle that broke down to reversal point #3. Some of you may remember the H&S consolidation pattern that formed next with several backtests to the neckline.
Silver has completed 6 reversal points so far with the seventh underway right now. If this is the start of a new bull market for silver it needs to complete the 7th reversal point and then take out the top rail of the falling wedge.
Yesterday was a bit frustrating insofar as the stock markets were concerned, as there are many rising wedges and flags that have formed over the last three weeks or so. Below is the 2-hour chart for the S&P 500 we’ve been following lately, which shows the red expanding triangle inside the blue rising wedge.
As you can see, the SPX found support again yesterday on the bottom rail of the expanding triangle and then bounced all the way up to the bottom rail of the blue rising wedge where it closed the day. Normally these types of patterns don’t waste much time in fulfilling their expected move. However, today will be critical, in the short term, to see if the bottom rail of the blue rising wedge holds resistance or fails.
Below is a 2-hour chart for the PowerShares QQQ Trust Series 1 ETF (O:QQQ), which shows the blue rising wedge up close and personal.
The last chart for today shows the importance of the little blue rising wedge, as it could very well be the right shoulder of a H&S top. To say the moment of truth has arrived for the stock markets is an understatement. The same can be said for the PM complex as well.
Are we witnessing a major inflection point where the stock markets enter into a bear market and the PM complex a bull market? As they say, we’ll know in the fullness of time.
