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Gold has burned me a few times this year. I caught a decent run on it as it reached its final peak when Russia invaded Ukraine earlier this year, but it has consistently failed me since then (I think I broke even after all was said and done). As such, I haven’t paid too much attention to it other than to watch it try to make a move on some volatile days. I did, however, pay attention to the past two tests of 1680, the latest of which broke down through.
The real price of gold, as represented on the chart below by gold in relation to commodities, is constructive to have bottomed. As inflation expectations continue to fade with the Fed still in hawk mode this should continue, in order to confirm a bottom.
A majority of gold bugs seem to think that gold stocks have utility against inflation, but they do not. Commodities, which are cyclical, and commodity related stocks have that utility. Gold stocks benefit from fading cyclical inflation as commodities such as mining cost input crude oil decline in relation to gold.
The Gold/CRB ratio (GLD/DBC shown here) is posturing for an attempt to break the downtrend that has been in place since the precious metals began their correction in mid-2020 amid a rampant cyclical inflationary backdrop.
(more…)From a June 19th interview I did with with Jordan Roy Byrne with respect to gold stocks, Energy and the proper macro fundamentals for the gold mining sector:
(more…)In my experience gold stocks will… they can paint ugly charts and then follow through on those ugly charts. But when a crash finally happens it’s almost poetic in that it’s like the final surrender of the inflationists. The ones who were packed in the sector for the wrong reasons because… ‘buy gold, buy silver, buy hogs, buy copper, buy oil’. No. You buy gold during weakness and when it would look forward to the new easing… of policy makers. The new dove regime or whatever. But it happens amid deflationary pressure.
