Technical analyst Clive Maund charts the reasons
why the recent gold breakout is genuine.
It has been a truly glorious month for gold, and the purpose of this
update is to point out firstly that the gold breakout of the past week was
genuine and secondly that any short-term reaction back as far as $1,380 or
even $1,370 will not negate the breakout—instead it should be seized upon as
an opportunity to build positions across the sector, especially in trampled
down undervalued silver stocks. Silver broke higher last week on its
strongest upside volume since its frothy top in 2011 and on its second
highest upside volume ever.
On the six-month gold chart we can see the impressive breakout run-up of
recent days, which has taken gold to a flag target that it has reached in an
extremely overbought state. This means it is entitled to take a rest here, and
that is what it is doing.
Two other factors calling for immediate consolidation/reaction are the
appearance of a short-term, bearish, shooting-star candlestick on the chart
yesterday, and the fact that it has run way ahead of its moving averages,
which are now in strongly bullish alignment. We should not be surprised,
therefore, to see it react back in the near term, to perhaps $1,380 or even
$1,370, which will have folks doubting that the gold breakout is genuine. But
it is genuine, as made clear by the strong volume on the breakout, so we will
use any such reaction as a buying opportunity.
The three-year chart gives us useful perspective on the breakout, enabling
us to see that it occurred from a fine cup-and-handle base that we had
delineated quite a while back. This chart also makes clear how steep the
recent rise has been and shows that it has become extremely overbought on its
MACD (moving average convergence/divergence), which means that it could do
with a rest now.
However, that said, a major and probably epochal breakout is occurring
here, so gold is perfectly entitled to accelerate away to the upside, and
is thus not expected to tarry for long. So any near-term weakness may be
bought aggressively.
Fundamentally, gold has everything going for it here. Central banks are
buying it hand-over-fist, major powers that have been bullied and threatened
by the U.S., like China and Russia, are buying it hand-over-fist, in
readiness for burying the dollar. The Fed and other central banks have
painted themselves into a corner, where the only thing they can think of
doing is printing money like crazy to try to stop the system from imploding.
The world faces the grim prospect of massive unprecedented quantitative
easing (state counterfeiting), negative interest rates, and the outright
plunder of bank accounts, called bail-ins (theft), and they may even resort
to thieving from retirement funds. Perhaps we can preempt them a bit here by
thinking up a euphemism for it. What about PERG (Pensioners Expedite Rescue
of Government)? It is a perfect storm that could cause gold to skyrocket.
Finally, let us wheel out our 10-year chart for gold yet again (nice,
easy, cut-and-paste job) to remind ourselves of the enormous significance of
this gold breakout. As we see, gold is breaking out of a giant six-year-long
head-and-shoulders bottom/saucer base pattern, which actually may be
considered to be a lengthy reaction within a much larger bull market going to
the early 2000s. This giant base pattern is capable of supporting a massive
bull market that looks set to go way beyond the earlier highs in 2011.
Originally posted on CliveMaund.com at 9.30 am EDT on 26th June 2019.
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