What About UN-Comfortably?
Slope of Hope Blog Posts
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Precious Metals
Phase 1 Completing, Get Ready For Phase 2
After the rally completes, a precious metals pullback is likely upcoming, to be followed by resumed broad market leadership
How We Got Here
2025 was a stellar year for the precious metals, as gold bucked the bearish market trends of late winter and spring, followed by the miners and eventually, silver. After silver wrestled leadership from gold it was up up and away for the precious metals, critical minerals and other commodities. Right into a very high risk situation. Risk was realized, as expected.
Then came the anticipated “multi-month correction”. It lasted about 5 months. Check.
Then came…
(more…)Sisyphus Bar
Frayed to Black
After a relatively wretched week, it’s heartening to see the breakout cough and sputter. As of this moment, the /ES has slumped clearly beneath its breakdown level, marked by that purple line.
Golden Trendline
Gold, by way of GLD, is just below both a descending trendline as well as a major price gap. I’d say this price rise is done for now.
