Here are seven precious metals miners whose charts I like:

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Since late 2008, the semiconductor fund SMH has gone up about twenty-fold with hardly a downtick on the way. This morning, the sector is brought into particularly light, since INTC had an enormous burst higher. Looking at more recent history, I think we can agree that even if semis do not look at threat of failure, they are certainly on the high side of the range.

If you wanted to guess one of the most incredible stocks of the past ten months. roaring over 200%, which has just set a lifetime high price in its long history, you probably wouldn’t get it: General Motors. Yes, the same GM that would have gone bankrupt in 2008 were it not for the emergency bailout from the federal government.

One sector on an absolutely relentless tear has been anything associated with electrical power storage. The valuations are reaching absolute nosebleed levels, but the 1,000% gains don’t seem to be slowing things down. I wouldn’t touch any of these with a ten-foot power pole, but they make for fascinating charts:
