HUI Timing Boxes

In the previous post about ‘Gold Miners & Inflation’ it was mentioned that the 2013-2014 would-be bottoming grind in HUI has been almost exactly the duration of the 2010-2011 topping grind.  Here is a visual to put with that statement.

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The current yellow box is an exact duplicate of the 2010/11 box, which came with an over bought MACD crossed down.  The breakdown candle implies that September would be the month that a break UP candle comes into play if this relationship has any predictive power.

Taking it further, as also noted in the previous post, the Ukraine noise does not help the sector and indeed could hurt in the short-term, because it keeps the wrong gold bugs on the tout.  So NFTRH keeps open some minor downside targets.

Taking it further still, those downside targets would end up being buying opportunities if gold’s macro fundamentals start to improve, which despite the emails I get to the contrary, really has not happened yet beyond a few ongoing positives.  But it had not happened yet in 2000 either.

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The Moving Average Convergence Divergence (MACD) started as a simple concept: measure the difference between two exponential moving averages (EMAs) to get early notice when they might cross.  New applications evolved over the years.  Now the MACD Lines and Histogram form a complex technical indicator that is used in a myriad of ways.  This guest blog post describes the MACD signals in the order of their appearance on the chart, showing you which are the earliest signals to pick up a potential trend change and which indicate a mature trend.

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