This is an excerpt from Tonite’s Saturday Evening Special

A Really Instructive Chart for Students of Chartology :

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This next chart for the COMPQ I call my HISTORY CHART as it has all the interesting things that has happened during the last 35 years. It’s easy to forget some of these events but when your living through them it makes an impression on you. You can see where two wars started, the 1987 crash and other events that seemed like the end of the world at the time but in hindsight they were just another piece of puzzle following the price action to where ever it would lead us

Rambus

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Before we look at tonight charts I would like to congratulate the folks that are taking the initiative by locking in some of their profits based on their own risk tolerance. Taking profits is a hard thing to do sometimes as greed can get in the way of rational decision making. Risk tolerance iS an individual thing Only you can know the answer. If you took any of my trades last Friday then you have some decent profits right now and depending on your risk tolerance you may want to sell some of your stocks or all of them. JDST is up almost 36 % in less that a week. Most investors would jump at the chance to cash in those kinds of profits in the course of a years trading so keep that in mind. There are going to be many more trades to come. The thing is, once you make a decision to do what is in your best interest, live with it. Don’t do the blame game or I shoulda done that or I coulda done this. Take responsibility for your own personal decision. This will help you further down the road when you are on your own.

I will place my sell/stops where I think is the best place based on the Chartology. We will also have a place on the sidebar which Sir Fully is working on right now that will use a mechanical approach. So you will have several options in which to make your own personal decision on what is best for you.

Lets start by looking at the GDX two hour chart that shows what is obvious now, a bull trap, above the breakout point. Put that false breakout in your memory bank as it shows how a failed breakout can lead to a much bigger move in the opposite direction. As you can see that is exactly what has happened. Notice the little but subtle clues that took place after the false breakout occurred. Whenever you have an important trendline, like the top and bottom rails of the blue triangle, always look for a backtest even if there is  a false breakout and prices return back inside the pattern. Note the backtest to the underside of the top rail of the blue triangle once the false breakout price action fell back inside the blue triangle. There was another backtest last Friday when the blue triangle broke down. That is where we took our initial positions in DUST. So even though a pattern is broken that doesn’t mean the trendlines are no good anymore, as they may still play a role in the new move that is taking place.

As I have mentioned many times in the past, whenever you know exactly what has happened to a particular trendline, in a chart pattern that goes wrong, always use the new information to tweak your trendlines. Sometimes it may just be a small tweak that shows exactly where the breakout and backtest occurred. Other times it may be a much bigger tweak as with the false breakout on the GDX chart that now gives us a totally different perspective. From what looked like a positive breakout move to a reversal pattern in just a matter of a few day shows you why you can never let your guard down when it comes to the markets. By not giving up on the false breakout, like so many investors who get discouraged when things don’t go exactly as planned, I was able to see a 5 point point bearish expanding rising wedge reversal pattern. Yes we gave back most of our gain but we survived to trade another day unlike most that are still hanging on for dear life waiting for the rally to bail them out. Our Model Portfolio is safe and sound in cash waiting to be deployed at some point in the future along with the Junior Portfolio. Both of those portfolios had small gains that were protected. As you probably know by now the Juniors are getting hammered to no end right now and many that bought them have no clue what is taking place. You do and that is most important from my perspective.

Lets look at another daily chart for the GDX that shows our top, 5 point reversal pattern, and the sharp decline that has followed. You may recall the inverse H&S bottom that led to the three month rally. As you can see I’ve extended the neckline to the right hand side of the chart that may offer some initial support on this decline. Today’s price action for GDX stopped right on the neckline extension rail. As I mentioned earlier, even if the GDX breaks below the neckline extension rail we can still use it to look for an entry point to buy more DUST if things work you that way.

This next daily chart for the GDX shows a potential very bearish setup that maybe unfolding right before our very eyes. I know it doesn’t seem like a fast moving market, it’s all relative, but when you have a down sloping chart pattern in a downtrend that is usually a very bearish setup. If… If this recent false breakout turns out to be the fourth reversal point in a possible bearish falling flag, this would be a halfway pattern as measured from the breakout from that massive H&S top. Keep in mind I’m using the GDX as a proxy for the rest of the precious metals stock indexes. The top and bottom rails of this potential falling flag are exactly parallel.

This last chart I would like to show you for the GDX is the long term weekly look that shows the massive H&S top formation that took over three years to complete. You can see how nicely this possible bearish falling flag fits into the big picture. Using my two different measuring techniques I can tell you the price objective would be around the 10 to 12 area. You may remember that area came up when we were looking at a different possible halfway pattern awhile ago. I don’t want to put too much positive spin on this potential huge setup but if you look at the top of the right shoulder, on that massive H&S top, and follow the price action down to the first reversal point in the blue falling flag halfway pattern, I would expect a similar move starting at the 4th reversal point we just put in that would take the price down to the 10 to 12 region. That would be the impulse measuring method. There is still a lot of work to do but the potential for a big payday is there if we play our cards right.

Many of our longer term subscribers know I was originally looking for a consolidation pattern in this area that would be a halfway pattern. Sometimes charts patterns can morph as I have shown you above that can give a false look to what is actually happening. During, what now looks like a three month counter trend rally, there were many potential double bottoms forming that gave the appearance of a major low being formed. After last weeks performance that now looks unlikely. I will start posting more charts during the day tomorrow to show you why this huge potential has a strong possibility of playing out to our advantage. Stay tuned and all the best…Rambus

As we all know last week was a tough week in the PM sector. The real question we have to ask is whether this was just a short term correction in the uptrend that started at the December low or is this the end of the three month rally? We’ll look at some charts to see if we can answer this question.

Lets start with the BPGDM chart that I showed you last week which was real close to giving a sell signal. We were just waiting for the 5 dma to cross below the 8 dma to confirm the sell signal. We got that last Friday so it’s officially on a sell signal now. The red circle shows the BPGDM is down to 36.67 with the 5 dma at 39.33 and the 8 dma now the highest at 40. This is the alignment we want to see for a sell signal.

The precious metals complex has been in a trading range since the June low made last year. There is still no confirmation yet if this sideways trading range is a double bottom reversal pattern or just a consolidation pattern. The trading range on gold has had three reversal points so far as you can see on the chart below. I’ve been looking for the price action to reach the August high made last year at the 1430 area where we would then sell regardless if gold was going to move higher. Everybody and their brother knows the 1430 is a hot zone and will be selling. I had originally labeled the red rising flag as a bullish rising flag as it was forming as a halfway pattern with a price objective up to 1430 which fit in perfectly. You can see the red rising flag had a false breakout through the top rail and turned down hard breaking below the bottom red rail. I’ve renamed the red rising flag to a bearish rising flag and moved the 4 with a question mark down to the top of the red rising flag. In these big consolidation patterns you will always see some type of reversal pattern form at the reversal points. As you can see reversal point #1 started out with a little unbalanced double bottom that worked into an inverse H&S bottom. Reversal point #2 built out a H&S top. Our last bottom,#3 started out with another small double bottom that ended up being the head of the inverse H&S bottom. Now here we are back up toward the top of the trading range where the price action has fallen short of reaching the price target of 1430, and has just built a 5 point bearish rising red flag. Is this going to be the reversal pattern that puts in the 4th reversal point in this nearly 9 month trading range?

This next chart shows where the green 65 wma and the most recent high touched, red arrow. That 65 week moving average always worked as support during the bull market years. Is it now going to reverse its role and act as resistance during the bear market? Sometimes it can be too painfully easy not to pay attention to something, as simple as a moving average, that worked miracles during the bull market years. Sometimes it can be that easy. Also if this is the 4th reversal point in the red triangle we are catching it at the optimal time to take advantage of a move down to at least the bottom red rail. If gold can takeout the top red rail and the 65 wma to the topside then we’ll know right away that gold is much stronger than what it appears right now.

If gold is topping out right here we should see another black candlestick show up this week. There could be some volatility during the week but I would like to see a black candlestick form by the end of this weeks trading to add a little more weight to a downside move beginning.

If gold is actually building out a triangle consolidation pattern then that means the neckline of the very large H&S top will be broken to the downside. The neckline is still quite a ways down around the 1200 area so there is plenty of time to watch how things unfold over the coming weeks and months.

Lets take a look at silver that is starting to crack the strong area of support we’ve been watching at the 20.50 area which is the top of the blue 5 point rectangle reversal pattern. You can see the price action came down to the top of the support and resistance zone and had a good bounce but ran out of steam and now silver is starting to penetrate that brown shaded support and resistance zone which it shouldn’t be doing. The situation can still be saved if silver can start to rally strongly from here but support is starting to crack.

Below is another weekly chart I’ve been showing you that has the lite blue arrows that shows the mid rail support and resistance areas. As you know I’ve been watching that 20.50 area like a hawk hoping it would hold support. As you can see it closed the week below that critical mid line of support. I’ve added a red arrow that shows what happened the last time the center rail failed to hold support on the 6 point rectangle consolidation pattern above. That red arrow, on the blue 6 point rectangle, is the actual spot that began the big impulse leg down to eighteen. Is our current failure to hold support at the center dashed line the actual beginning of the next impulse leg down similar to what we seen on the blue rectangle?

With the potential support rail being violated this sets up the possibility that a triangle pattern is now forming. I can guarantee you that this possible triangle is not on anyone’s radar screen yet. The fourth reversal point is now just beginning to show itself.

If silver is building out a triangle consolidation pattern lets see how it fits into the big downtrend channel that has been in place since silver topped out in April of 2011 almost three years ago already. As you can see it fits perfectly.

Lets take one last look at silver that shows how our potential triangle, that is now forming, may play out in the very long term look. As I’ve stated several times there is some beautiful symmetry is taking place on the long term monthly chart for silver. As you can see on the chart below the potential triangle is the right shoulder of a very large H&S top. I know it maybe hard to wrap your head around what this means for silver and the precious metals complex in general. If silver along with gold break below their respective necklines, I’ve been showing you, there is going to be one more hard down phase that will virtually wipe out most of the bull market gains off the books. This would then be a round trip from start to finish. How many investors do you think sold all their gold and gold shares in 1980 when gold and silver topped out? I would bet very few actually sold anywhere near the top as the same hype we have heard in this bull market was the same back then. Maybe this time will be different but silver and gold will need to show us some strength by making a new higher high at some point to reverse this downtrend that has been in place for close to three years now.

If gold and and silver are going to make new lows we need to look at the US dollar for any clues it can give us. The first chart I would like to show you is the possible H&S top with the Diamond head. As you can see the price action reached the neckline again just recently and has bounced up. We know that is one hot neckline. Still no confirmation that the potential H&S top is valid.

I have many charts for the US dollar that can show either a bullish or bearish outcome. Lets look at one more chart that shows a bearish setup. The US dollar broke down out of a blue bearish rising wedge and then built a red triangle as the backtest. You can see the dollar backtested the bottom rail of the red triangle this week. So far it’s still holding resistance.

Now lets look at several charts that may show a positive outcome if support can hold. Below is a very long term chart for the US dollar that is showing a possible very large blue triangle forming. If the bottom rail of the red consolidation pattern can hold support, right here, then the US dollar should be able to rally at least back up to the top red rail at a minimum. This is a critical time for the US dollar.

Below is basically the same chart but this time I moved the first reversal point up to the 87 area which gives us more of a bull flag type pattern. The red trading range is still the key as to which way the US dollar is eventually going to break. So far the bottom red rail has been holding strong support.

This last chart I would like to show you is one I built quite awhile ago that shows the two fractals or big base #1 and big base #2. The dollar has been moving at a snails pace between the top down sloping rail and the support and resistance rail on the bottom. Eventually it’s going to have to break one way or the other and whichever way it breaks out a good trend should develop.

It looks like the precious metals complex maybe at another inflection point right here and now. Last weeks price action may have ended the three month rally that began at the December low. I think we’ll know shortly if this is indeed the case. Stay tuned as it can get pretty wild at these turning points sometimes. All the best…Rambus

I’ve shown you several comparison charts with the HUI, GLD and SLV that shows they all tend to breakout at roughly the same time. One can sometimes be stronger than the others but they tend to breakout at the same time. This week was no exception. All three broke out of their consolidation patterns this week. Who would have thunk it.

First, lets look at SLV that shows the bull flag we’ve been following since SLV  broke out from the 5 point rectangle reversal pattern. Yesterday the price action hit the top blue rail and fell back, just as you would expect on the inital hit. The question was how many bears were on the other side of that top blue rail? Today answered that question without a doubt. The big gap up this morning told us the bears were gone and they are now in retreat looking for new high ground they will try to defend. Below is a 2 hour 4 month chart for SLV that shows the breakout today and the backtest.

Below is a 2 hour 4 month chart for GLD that looks totally different than the SLV chart. They are different but similar if you look at the base or reversal patterns and the consolidation patterns. Here you can see GLD formed an inverse H&S bottom as its reversal pattern. As we all know gold has been stronger than silver so we should look for a strong consolidation pattern. The strongest consolidation pattern that I know of, and nobody recognizes them, is a consolidation pattern that points in the same direction as the trend. As you can see on the SLV chart above the bull flag slopes down against the uptrend. This is what a normal consolidation pattern looks like. When a stock is in a very strong trend it will slope with the trend instead of against it.

Today GLD gapped above the top rail of it bullish rising flag consolidation pattern and did its backtest just as SLV did.

Below is a 2 hour 5 month chart for the HUI. The last time I showed you this chart we were looking for the 6th reversal point as shown by the 6 with a question mark. As you can see the HUI rallied back up to the top blue rail and declined back down about half the length of the rectangle where it found support. That’s all the strength the bears had left so the bulls wasted little time in taking control of the situation. The bears are exhausted and need a new area to defend.  The bulls gapped out of the rectangle and are now above horizontal resistance. Folks, from a Chartology perspective, it just doesn’t get any prettier. At some point we’re going to see a consolidation pattern form that will be much bigger than these little ones that have built out so far.

If you recall I mentioned how we were reversing symmetry backup vs how we came down. With more time on this chart now you can begin to see the reverse symmetry taking hold as this rally progresses. I’ve labeled all the reversal points so you can see the battle that goes on between the bulls and the bears. Each reversal point is a skirmish and when the consolidation pattern finally breaks, to the victor goes the spoils. You can see the bears were in control on the way down but since the blue 5 point bullish falling wedge reversal pattern broke to the upside the bulls are now in control.

Weekly comparison chart.

In my humble opinion you can spend every waking minute trying to figure out why is gold and and PM stocks going up. Is it because of inflation, deflation, copper, the stock markets, currencies , War or a hundred different reason’s? If you just follow the price action and devote the time spent trying to find a reason for why, you will be way ahead of the game. You don’t have to know the answer to the question everybody is trying to answer. It’s irrelevant. The answer is right there in front of you if you take the time to understand what the chart is telling you. All the best…Rambus

TRX has built a beautiful inverse H&S bottom and is now in the process of breaking out through the neckline. The MACD has turned positive with the blue Histogram now above the zero line. I’m going to buy it at 2.70 for the Extra Trade Ideas link just below the Model Portfolio stocks.

The weekly chart shows the inverse H&S bottom, that I just showed you on the daily chart above, that is forming right on the 2008 crash low as have so many other precious metals stocks. This is exactly the place you want to look for some type of reversal pattern. Notice the huge positive divergence with the RSI at the top of the chart. Also the MACD has a positive cross and the blue Histogram is above the zero line. Everything looks lined up and ready to go.

The long term monthly chart shows a huge trading range that goes back many years. Buy the bottom and sell the top until something changes. The monthly indicators are still slightly negative but are getting very close to turning positive. The monthly indicators let you know if your in an uptrend or downtrend which is key to understand. For the most part you want to trade in line with the big trend and scalp the counter trend.

I’m getting the feeling that some of you are in over your heads when it comes to the markets. Playing the stock markets is nothing more than psychological warfare. It’s all about emotions. When you put money and then leverage on the playing field many investors loose sight of the bigger picture. As soon as the markets don’t go their way they start thinking with emotions instead of what discipline they use to trade.

The HUI is just starting its fourth week in this congestion zone between 236 and 250 with many reversals taking place in that tight trading range. We don’t know 100% for sure if this is a consolidation pattern or some type of topping pattern that has been building out. Our discipline, Chartology, strongly suggests this is a consolidation pattern forming but there are no guarantees this is the case until we get confirmation one way or the other.

If this congestion area is wearing you out then you are way too leveraged and need to cut back on your position size. So far this has been just a mild 14 point trading range on the HUI that one should be able to cope with without getting all emotional wondering when the pain is going to end. Folks, this trading range is so small it doesn’t even show up on a weekly chart yet. How you’re coping with this little trading range should tell you of your own psychological makeup.

If you are having a hard time dealing with this trading range you really need to think about cutting the size of your positions so that you can think with a clear mind. If the HUI trades down to its 50 dma will you be able to hold on? If the answer is no then you really need to reduce your position size as soon as possible. Every trade doesn’t have to be a home run like so many think.

We have three different portfolios ranging from the Model Portfolio which is conservative. The Junior Portfolio which is a little more speculative and then the Kamikaze Portfolio which is the highest degree of speculation. The Kamikaze Portfolio equals high risk for high reward. Make sure you understand what that means. HIGH RISK – HIGH REWARD. Most investors don’t have the emotional capability to play in the Kamikaze Portfolio. Believe me there is nothing wrong with that. The Juniors are offering us a good lower risk and high reward opportunity if one can hang on through the draw downs. Then there is the Model Portfolio that will do very well if we are indeed entering the second leg of this secular bull market.

So, be honest with yourself and decide which is the best way for you, personally, to invest your hard earned money. Keep in mind this isn’t a child’s game we are play here. We are going up against the brightest minds in the world that want your money. They could care less if you loose every last penny to them. For them it’s like taking candy from a baby. The inexperienced get eaten alive before they even know what hit them. So please keep your leverage to a minimum and trade according to you own psychological makeup so you can stay in the game long enough to learn something. All the best…Rambis

In this Weekend Report I want to take a good hard look at silver which has been the laggard in the precious metals complex to see if there is something technically wrong. If you been following the precious metals complex for any length of time you’ll know that silver can be contrarian at times. It likes to start out slow and then once gold begins to pickup the pace then silver will play catchup. Once silver gets ready to move it can rally hard and fast catching up to gold and surpassing in on a percentage basis. So far since the December low silver is playing its game of Opossum by looking weak and not confirming the move in gold or the precious metals stocks. I think this is a deceptive look on silver right now. Lets see what the charts are telling us about silver and look for some clues that might help shed some light on what is really taking place right now.

The first chart is a six month daily look that shows our five point rectangle reversal pattern that has reversed the downtrend. The breakout was accompanied buy some really heavy volume which is what you like to see. I’ve added a brown shaded support and resistance zone that gives us a place to look for support now that silver has broken above that area of resistance. That zone is roughly 20.35 to 20.60 which should offer good support. One last important note on the chart below. Since silver made its breakout high it has been in backtest mode which is to be expected. In doing so it has created a small red rectangle halfway pattern to the downside. Using the impulse measuring technique I’ve been showing you the little red rectangle halfway pattern has a price objective down to the 25.53 area which is in the brown shaded support and resistance zone.

Lets now look back about one year that shows the two reversal patterns that are now in play. The first reversal pattern is the big blue five point Diamond reversal pattern. This Diamond has shown up on a lot of the PM stocks which has done a little morphing since we first started to recognize it last year. The other reversal pattern is the blue five point rectangle reversal pattern that we looked at on the chart above. We have two – five point reversal patterns in play right now that suggests a decent bottom should be in place right now.

Lets look at another daily chart for silver that is about a year long that shows us another positive development. When silver broke above the brown shaded support and resistance zone it also took out the top rail of a six month downtrend channel along with the top rail of the 5 point blue rectangle. If you look real close you will see that silver backtested the top rail of the downtrend channel, around the 20.50 area, for just two days before it shot higher. It now looks like silver is going to backtest the brown shaded support and resistance zone, from the topside, just as it did back in October of last year. Note how fast silver moved up last August when it was ready to go. If you’re not positioned before a move like that it’s hard to get on because there is no pullback. You either plug your nose and jump in or you miss the move.

Lets look at one more longer term daily chart for silver that puts the downtrend channel and the blue five point rectangle reversal pattern in perspective. I would like to focus your attention to the bottom right hand side of the chart that shows our current price action. There are three possible areas of support that intersect right at the 20.50 area. The first one is the top of the blue rectangle. The second is the bottom rail of the red bull flag that is made up of the little red rectangle halfway pattern that I showed you on the first chart above. The third possible area of support is the 50 dma that comes in at 20.36.

Now lets take a look at a weekly chart that starts putting the big picture into focus. This weekly chart shows the rally up to the 50 area and the bear market that has ensued. After breaking down from the unbalanced double top silver went right into a six point rectangle consolidation pattern that lasted almost two years. Whenever you have a horizontal trading range or rectangle I always look for a mid rail that forms in the center of the rectangle. Sometimes these mid rails will be exactly in the middle and sometimes they can be offset just a bit either up or down from the mid point. As you can see on the upper six point rectangle the center blue dashed  rail is pretty close to the center as shown by the light colored blue arrows. What the blue arrows are showing is the tops and bottoms which you connect your center line to. Above is support and below is resistance. As you can see in our current horizontal trading range the mid line is a tad lower as shown by the thin blue arrows. It comes in at, you guessed it, 20.50. The black dashed down sloping trendlines shows what happens when they get broken to the upside. As you can see there is generally a very strong rally backup to the top of the trading range. So far silver is four weeks into its breakout move above its black dashed downtrend rail. Hopefully when the backtest gets finished it will waste little time rallying back up to the top of the trading range between 25 and 26.

Lets look at the monthly chart that shows the very large uptrend channel that silver has built out over the last 12 years or so. The two big blue patterns make up the width of the uptrend channel with the smaller red secondary patterns making up the rest of the bull market in the move going into the April 2011 top. Whenever I see a chart like this, that has several smaller consolidation patterns that form in an uptrend, and then the stock makes a much bigger consolidation pattern, I always think of the bigger consolidation pattern as a halfway pattern. This can be on any time frame. This is one of those “WHAT IF” moments. What if this three year blue bull flag is a halfway pattern to the upside. What would the price objective for silver be if this is the case? If this three year bull flag is actually a halfway pattern in the secular bull market, that the precious metal complex has been in since the beginning 2000, then the price objective would be around the 200 area give or take 20 dollars. That’s a long time from now but it’s a possibility. Right now we have to worry about the 20.50 area holding support and take it one step at a time.

The last chart I would like to show you for silver is the quarterly chart that shows all the history going back to 1970. You can see why the possibility for 200 isn’t out of the question. Silver has been reversing symmetry back up to how it went down after the 1980 all time high. Its been making a series of H&S bottoms with the third and largest H&S bottom working as support as silver is in backtest mode right now. Also silver could be forming a very large cup and handle with our blue bull flag being the handle. The first thing we need to see happen is for silver to breakout of its bull flag then takeout the all time high at 50. So there is a lot of work to do but the possibility is there in the long term picture. Note how big our current blue flag looks compared to any other consolidation pattern on this very long term chart.

In the very short term silver needs to hold support around the 20.50 area and then rally strongly up from there. If it can do that then our first price objective will be the 25 to 26 area which is the top of our recent high in this consolidation pattern and the bottom of the six point rectangle that formed after silver put in its major top in April of 2011. So we wait for silver to shows us her hand. All the best…Rambus

As I promised you last night lets look at the GLDX, Junior Gold Stock Explorers etf that maybe one of the hottest areas in the markets right now. Tonight I’ll show you the two different measuring techniques I use to get an idea of where the price may move once a breakout is in progress.

The first method I call the breakout to breakout method which the name implies. You can use this method when you have a top, bottom or consolidation pattern below your current consolidation pattern. Using the GLDX we see this is the case. We have the red bullish falling wedge that formed below our current blue triangle. If this plays out according to plan the blue triangle will be in the middle between the red bullish falling wedge and the price objective up to the 19.50 area.

To measure the blue triangle as a halfway pattern I just take my fib tool and measure the distance from the breakout from the red bullish falling wedge to the first reversal point in the blue triangle, blue arrow. You do this with any consolidation pattern, whether it’s a rectangle, wedge, Diamond or whatever the consolidation pattern is. You then take that measurement and add it to the breakout of the blue triangle halfway pattern to get your price objective up to the 19.50 area.  Sometimes these measurements can be dead on the money and other times fairly close. It gives you a place to look for other signs of where the impulse move may run into resistance. In this case you can see a top that was formed last August in the 19.50 area so that is another good clue that the breakout move should go up into that area.

Note the MACD just crossed with the Histogram moving above the zero line along with the slow stoch also crossing. This breakout is being accompanied by some nice big black volume bars also. As you can see today’s price action is testing the high of the blue triangle which is encouraging. So there are a lot of positive things going on with this little junior stock index.

The other method I use to measure a price objective I call the impulse method as it’s measuring the equal distance above and below a halfway pattern. Using the same GLDX chart we are going to measure the blue triangle as a halfway pattern using the impulse method. Again, take your fib tool and measure from the last reversal point in the previous consolidation pattern, red falling wedge, which actually starts the impulse leg up. You then take that measurement and add it to the last reversal point in the blue triangle to get your price objective up to the 18.85 area as shown by the blue arrows. It doesn’t make any difference how many reversal points a consolidation pattern has, 4,6,8 or more, you always use the last reversal point in any consolidation pattern to measure for your price objective.

So between the two different measuring techniques we get a range between 18.85 and 19.50 with the previous high made last August also in that area gives us a place to shoot for. I know there are other measuring techniques that people use but for me this is how I like to calculate a measured move.

It’s been awhile since we looked at the US dollar that has been showing some weakness lately. The first chart is pretty cut and dried as it shows a big blue bearish rising wedge that had a clean breakout and backtest. It then went on to form the red triangle just below the bottom blue rail which as you know I view as a bearish setup. The price objective for a rising or falling wedge, many times is the beginning of the wedge. In this case the blue bearish rising wedge started to form back in the late summer of 2011 at the 73 area. You never know 100% for sure how the inter market analysis is going to play out but a decline, in the US dollar to the 73 area, could be a big catalyst for a large move up in the precious metals complex. We’ll know in hindsight.

Some of our longer term subscribers may remember this big 11 point Diamond reversal pattern that formed last year. This is a very similar setup to the big Diamond that gave me a clue that the HUI was in a very large topping pattern well before the price action broke down. I view the blue Diamond as the head portion of a big H&S top formation. I’ve added a neckline symmetry rail that is just a parallel line taken off of the neckline that often times gives us a place to look for a high on the right shoulder. As you can see it nailed the height for the right shoulder. The price objective is quite interesting for this H&S top. If the neckline gets broken to the downside the price objective would be down to the 73.50. This puts the price down into the 73 area as shown by the bearish rising wedge on the chart above. Again, we’ll know in hindsight if this all plays out but for the moment this is what the Chartology is telling us.

There is another area we haven’t looked at in awhile and that is the Uranium Sector. This area has also caught on fire. Lets look at the NLR, the Uranium etf, that shows the price action breaking out though the top rail of  a bullish rising wedge. This is a pretty impressive move taking place right now in this sector.

Below is a weekly chart for the NLR that shows all the chart patterns that have developed over the last 6 years. Note the big blue bullish falling wedge that broke out well over a year ago but it was a slow grind higher until just recently as prices have started to accelerate to the upside. Sometimes I’m still amazed at what the Chartology can show you sometimes before an event happens. Notice the red bearish rising wedge that had formed back in late 2010 around the 65 area. That vertical breakdown form that red bearish rising wedge was the Japan earthquake. That was the top like so many other commodities that have been in a 3 year correction that started in 2011. Three years is a nice long time for a correction to take place in a secular bull market. Maybe we’ll see inflation first and then deflation. It really doesn’t make and difference as we will be  following the price action to where ever it takes us. All the best…Rambus

Below is a chart of the HUI H&S top that I was showing on another website , during its formation in 2008 and the crash that followed. Keep in mind the HUI had been rallying for 8 years without a topping formation so when I started to show the possibility of this H&S top nobody wanted to hear it. Some of you know the feeling, that when you post something negative about the precious metals complex, you have to take a lot of flack to make your point.

The point I want to make with this chart is the volatility that occurred when the neckline was broken to the downside. The volatility we are experiencing right now on the HUI is so very mild compared to the 2008 crash. There were two halfway patterns. The first one was the red bear flag that had a price objective down to 252 red arrow. That low was the first reversal point in the much bigger blue bearish falling wedge that was also a halfway pattern. I used the breakout to breakout method to measure the price objective down toward the 145 area. Just measure the distance from the breakout from the H&S top to the first reversal point in the blue bearish falling wedge, red arrow. Take that measurement and add it to where the price action broke out from the blue bearish falling wedge to get your price objective.

Note the price swings inside the blue bearish falling wedge. These are daily bars that show the first rally inside the blue falling wedge was right at 100 points in just 2 weeks. The decline down to reversal point #3 was 130 points in about 2 weeks before the HUI rallied 70 points to 300 that created the 4th reversal point. Note the clean breakout and the backtest 3 days later that sealed the fate for the blue bearish falling wedge. I didn’t have room to label the bottom but I call this type of bottom a 2 1/2 point double  bottom. You can see the double bottom that formed between Oct and December and the rally that took the price action up to the apex of the blue bearish falling wedge. You can see how volatile the price action was when the HUI put in the second low in December that was a tad higher than the October low that was a small double bottom in its own right.  Normally the double bottom hump should hold support but sometimes, in volatile markets, the stock will make one last attempt to decline but the bears are finally exhausted and there are just buyers left so the price only declines about halfway down before it’s exhausted.

This monthly chart shows the total history for the HUI. It’s actually one of the most symmetrical and beautiful charts, from a Chartology perspective, that you will ever see unless you look at the gold’s bull market that has many beautiful chart patterns. When I see the beauty of this chart I can’t help but to think this chart was made by a natural process. If the precious metals were manipulated, as some many gold bugs presume, you could not have such beautiful looking chart patterns. They would be all ragged and no symmetry if some one had tried to manipulate all the stocks that make up the HUI. This long term monthly chart is a textbook look at Chartology and how it works in creating chart patterns and impulse moves. Maybe sir muslhead will confirm for me if there is actually a hidden bullish divergence taking place between the 2008 and 2013 low. Bottom line : Is this the start of the 8th impulse move higher since the HUI was first conceived? We’ll know in hindsight. All the best…Rambus