I see that the gold miners are vastly underperforming the bullion once again. When it comes to the “fear trade,” there are not many, if at all, substitutes to playing Treasuries, the Dollar, and physical Gold. It is also worth noting that jewelry stores are among the worst performing stocks today, as a whole, with TIF and ZLC cratering.
If stocks are going to make a higher low (above 1101 from last week on the S&P 500), then I believe that fear trade will need to stall out here. There is not much evidence of that happening today yet. Looking at a daily chart of GLD, though, we see a gap up doji today. It is mere speculation on my part, but a gap down tomorrow would put a doji reversal into play, especially given the context of the overall chart. Again, gold is still in a powerful uptrend, and emotions are running high. So, I am not eager to get aggressive on this possibility. At some point, the fear trade will abate. I believe gold has gone from a reflation play to a fear play i a short amount of time, despite what you hear from experts about China and India demand. The longer this fear trade persists, though, the more we are apt to see days like today in equities.
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I Loaded up on FAS and tomorrow and I added GLD puts and will add more on tomorrows confirmation. Calling tops and bottom isn’t a suckers game for few. GLD hook looks identical to SLV on its high, which also occured on a WED, before settling down and dumping the following week.
If anyone wants to get rich quick w/me, short GLD with some puts.
I’ve been waiting and waiting for GLD pullback but never seems to materialize.
Well don’t go blamin’ me!
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Of course I’ll buy then the next day it will drop like a rock.
No pun intended.
what is the best way to play gold?? the miners are lagging behind, any other companies ?
it’s too overbought now but GLD was the best way