Tonight  I want to take an unbiased look at gold from every angle I can find. There are some clear cut chart patterns that have been formed since the beginning of this secular bull market that began at a low price of 255. I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again, this bull market in gold will be studied by future analyst as we have studied the great bear market from the 30’s. From a chartists perspective this bull market has produced one beautiful chart pattern after another starting with the bear market low at 255. Keep in mind every impulse leg up is followed by a serious correction and that pertains to our current situation. Even though I’m very bullish longer term we are in one of those consolidation patterns that began last fall from the bull market top at 1920. The consolidation pattern that has been forming since last years high is still not revealing itself yet. There are several possibilities we’ll take a look at that may give us a road map to follow as our current consolidation pattern matures.

First, lets look at a daily chart for gold that is showing only a part the bigger consolidation pattern. The reason this pattern is only part of the bigger chart pattern is because it has formed below the bull market top at 1920. I’ve not seen any chartists out there that is showing this beautiful rectangle that has been forming since gold crashed off of it’s 1920 high to the first reaction low at 1535, red #1 on chart below. I’ve labeled the reversal points with red numbers that show a completed rectangle pattern. With the touch at point #5 the rectangle was completed.

There are two possibilities for this rectangle on the chart above. The first scenario would be that the rectangle will end up being a consolidation pattern to the downside. If that is the case the price objective would be around the 1400 area as measured by the blue arrows. The other scenario could be that this is a 5 point rectangle reversal pattern that would end up being the bottom for this corrective move off the 1920 high. Whenever I see a rectangle pattern I always put on a mid point trendline, dashed blue horizontal rail, that often times will act as resistance before the rectangle finally breaks down to new lows. So how gold does at the mid rail will give us some important clues going forward.

Next lets look at a two year daily chart that shows what I think maybe forming and that is a large bull flag. In any valid consolidation pattern you need at least an even number of  reversal points, such as 4,6,8 or more. As I’ve shown you on the first chart above the rectangle has four completed reversal points completing the pattern. On the chart below, the pattern I’m focusing in on,  is the potential bull flag in black. To complete the bull flag we need to have at least one more low put in somewhere below the blue rectangle. Again, if the blue rectangle is a consolidation pattern to the downside that will give us a place to look for a low in which to connect the bottom rail for the 4th reversal point.

There is a possible clue, on the chart above, that the next low may come in on the bottom black rail of the bull flag. Symmetry plays an important role when I look at chart patterns. The red circles shows a gap above and below the rectangle that has created the angle for the top rail of the bull flag. I’ve shown to our subscribers how these types of patterns can morph into the true pattern once the symmetry from the top, red circle, is placed below the bottom rail, red circle. What I mean by this is, if you were to draw the initial trend line across the first to tops of the bull flag the angle of your top trendline would be much steeper than the present one. You also would have had a false breakout of the original downtrend rail, top red circle.

Symmetry says to put the bottom red circle at the bottom of the blue rectangle. As you can see on the chart above this is giving us an almost perfect parallel bull flag or downtrend channel. Now if the bottom rail of the rectangle gives way then I believe the bottom rail of the possible bull flag will come into play.

The next chart is a weekly look at the uptrend channel that formed off the 2008 crash lows. This chart shows why I think we have another leg down before we hit the correction lows. Note the beautiful uptrend channel off the 2008 lows and how the bottom rail held support during that big advance. About 7 weeks ago that bottom rail was broken to the downside and has reversed it’s role from support to now resistance. You can see gold has been bumping up against the bottom rail for at least 4 weeks now without penetrating it. This is classic TA. If the potential bull flag is going to be the correct consolidation pattern,  you can see we need at least one more low to create the 4th reversal point.

There is one more important feature to look at on the chart above. Notice the uptrend channel that formed below the dashed mid rail. It was very clean and tight. When gold went nearly vertical in it’s move to 1920 it doubled the lower channel, exactly. This was a good clue that gold was probably burning itself out and would need to have a good correction. And as you can see that is exactly what has happened.

The next chart is the same weekly look that shows all the smaller consolidation patterns that formed from the 2008 crash low to the 2011 top at 1920, in red. When you hear me talk of reversal points in a consolidation pattern take note of all the smaller red consolidation patterns. You will see at least four reversal points in each pattern starting at the top of each pattern.

One more important takeaway from the chart above is the two blue patterns. The 6 point bullish falling expanding wedge that was built as part of the 2008 consolidation area and our current but still incomplete bull flag that looks like it will be a bookend for the big rally off the 2008 lows. When our current bull flag is completed it will most likely be a halfway pattern as measured off the 2008 low. I won’t get into that right here but it is a strong possibility.

This next chart is a monthly look that shows the entire bull market to date. This is my interpretation of all the most important chart patterns that have formed over the last 12 years or so. Note how the red and blue patterns alternate. By just simply visualizing this uptrend channel you can see how the red consolidation patterns have formed roughly halfway between the blue patterns. The real question now is will our latest consolidation pattern, the possible bull flag, tag the bottom rail of the major uptrend channel similar to the 2008, 6 point bullish expanding falling wedge?

Next lets look at some other charts to see where we are in this correction over the last year or so. This next chart is a 3 way combo chart that shows the HUI, gold and silver. I call this chart my short term history chart because it has some important turning points that some of you may recall. The purple dashed vertical lines represents those turning points made since the first of the year. You may recall the December bottom that so many analysis were calling the bottom for the precious metals complex. As you can see it was a bottom but not the bottom. Its labeled December 29th pivot lows. The next important reversal point came when we had the flash crash. How many recall that day made on Feb. 29th. I remember well all the talk of market manipulation that was being bantered about. The last reversal point on the chart below is the May low that many analysis are calling the low for the PM complex. It is possible that the May low could be The Low, but if the HUI and silver which are strongly testing their bottom rails, give way the precious metals complex could have another leg down. Note how gold is holding well above it’s lower trendline.

Next lets look at another combo chart with the HUI on top and gold on the bottom. This chart shows you how the HUI and gold generally breakout of similar patterns at the same time. Even though gold has been much stronger than the HUI they generally form a very similar consolidation pattern. The yellow area shows the 2008 H&S top on the HUI and gold and our current H&S patterns. You can see the HUI is doing a critical backtest to the neckline at 465 as we speak.

The next chart is the Rydex precious metals stock. It doesn’t give many buy and sell signals. The latest signal was a sell signal that was made when gold hit it’s all time high at 1920. When the 20 week crosses over the 50 week ma is when you get your buy and sell signals.

I need to wrap this essay up as its getting a little long but there is one more chart that I would like to show you. Several years ago the Aden sisters showed a chart that described the 8 and 11 years time cycles. It basically shows an eight year low followed by an elven year high. They took these 2 cycles all the way back to the 1960’s. Below is my interpretation of their work. I have to say its pretty impressive in calling important tops and bottoms. You may need to study this chart to get the full affect of its meaning. Right now the most important feature on the chart below is the February 2012 high that has followed the 2001 eight year low. 2001 plus 11 years equals a top in 2012. So far it looks like the cycles are still in play.

So there you have it a look at gold from the Rambus perspective. Everything seems to be pointing to a larger correction than most are looking for. At the very least we need to see gold trade above it’s 300 dma before we can start to get excited about a move higher. Whatever direction gold wants to move we have a road map that will let us know if its in a bullish or bearish mode….All the best…Rambus

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Below is a chart of GLD that shows what I consider to be the most important moving averages. They are the 150, 200 and 300 day moving averages. The 150 and 200 dma have turned down while the 300 is still trending up. If GLD can ever get above those three moving averages that would show some considerable strength. We just need to be patient awhile longer and see what GLD has on its mind.

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Its been a slow day so I thought I would get the Wednesday stock report finished early.

In this Wednesday stock report I would like to look at the US Dollar, as it plays a very important role to the big overall picture regarding so many markets. A strong dollar usually means a weak stock market or commodities. Its possible that the stock markets or commodities can move in the same direction of the dollar but in general they move in the opposite direction. So getting the big overall picture right for the US dollar helps us understand what we are up against in regards to the other markets.

Lets start with the daily look to see what has transpired over the last 10 months or so. The dollar carved out a six point symmetrical triangle consolidation pattern in the first part of this year. If you remember the last reversal point, #6, was a little tricky when it broke down slightly below point #4. That was a little false move that paved the way for the big rally that followed.  There is a possible bull flag that has been forming over last two weeks or so. It will either be a bull flag halfway pattern or the start of a bigger consolidation pattern that will chop around to the right side of the chart. If the dollar can take out the previous high then there is a good chance the red bull flag is the correct pattern.  If it fails we might see a triangle or rectangle or some other consolidation pattern form. Something to keep a close eye on.

The weekly chart is the look to pay close attention to. I’ve been showing this inverse H&S base before we broke through neckline #1. As you can see on the chart below the backtest to neckline #1 was a long drawn out affair that planted a seed of doubt when the price action  dropped slightly below the neckline. Notice how the neckline came back into play, as support, once the price action got back above. For the last two months, after the strong backtest, the neckline never failed again and held support until the move higher began.

Also on the chart above you can see where the dollar has formed another inverse H&S bottom, neckline #2. The possible red bull flag that I showed you on the daily chart is part of the backtest to neckline #2. A complete backtest to neckline #2 would come in at 81.35.

The next chart I would like to show you is a weekly combo chart with gold on top and the us dollar on the bottom. There are several important points on this chart that are worth noting. First you can see the big inverse H&S bottom on the dollar chart that matches fairly close the big H&S top on gold. You can see they both broke through their respective necklines about four weeks ago. They are both in the process of backtesting those necklines.

The other important feature on the chart above is where I have labeled H #2 on the dollar chart. That is the point where the dollar made a slightly higher low while gold was going near parabolic to it’s 1920 all time high. By the dollar not making a lower low at that point, while gold was making a much higher high, that setup a positive divergence for the dollar to gold. That was a strong inflection point for both the dollar and gold. As you can see on the chart above the dollar has been in a strong uptrend while gold has been trending lower.

The next chart is a weekly line chart where I put the US dollar behind the gold price so you can see how they interact with each other. In April of 2006 is when gold crossed up and over the dollar and never looked back. What is obvious is that gold has been in a huge bull market as the dollar has been in a bear market. Since the dollar hit it’s low in 2008 it’s been chopping out to the right side of the chart failing to make lower lows as gold was making one high after another. What I find interesting right now is gold looks like it has a H&S top in place while the dollar has a H&S bottom. It will be interesting to see if the two start to trade back toward each other and close the huge gap that is as big as the large gap from the 2001 – 2002 period. One thing is obvious and that is the dollar has refused to make new bear market lows since 2008.

Understanding what the dollar is doing is critical to understanding the big picture. So far the dollar has been following the charts I’ve presented pretty close. If the backtest to NL #2 at 81.35 is successful then the dollar is headed much higher putting pressure on most markets. All the best…Rambus

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In this weekend report I want to take a look at some of the big cap precious metals stocks that help make up the HUI, XAU and the GDX. What we’re basically doing is looking under the hood of the big cap PM indexes to see  what the individual components look like. By doing this we can see where these individual stocks are since topping out over the last one to two years. Big tops need time and price to reset sentiment. There are two ways to get back to oversold condition. First you can have a long drawn affair that takes alot of time to bring the price back down to oversold readings. The second way would be similar to the 2008 crash in the PM stocks that only took 3 or 4 months to get everything washed out so a new leg could begin.

The charts I’m going to show you tonight will be a weekly line chart that  takes the weekly close and adds the next weeks close to it to get your line. Line charts can sometimes show nice clear chart patterns that are hard to detect on a bar chart that may have some big price spikes.  A pattern may show up on a line chart that you didn’t see on a bar chart and vise versa. Using both bar charts and line charts can give one a much clearer interpretation of what is really going on when a stock starts chopping out a chart pattern.

Lets look at the HUI first, on a weekly line chart, so you can see the clear 18 month or so H&S top formation. From just a common sense symmetrical look it doesn’t look like the HUI has put in near enough time in relationship to the big H&S top formation. I think we could be in a more drawn out type decline that will take time to play out by moving 2 steps down and one step up like we are seeing right now. Notice the 2008 H&S top that didn’t waste any time going down once the neckline was broken to the downside.

Lets now look at some big cap precious metals stocks on a weekly line chart and see what they look like. ABX has a big diamond top in place. Note the bottom blue up sloping rail of the diamond and how the price action dropped in a vertical fashion once it was broken to the downside. That’s what a breakout looks like.

AEM was one of the first PM stocks to break down from it’s H&S top formation.

ASA topped out at the end of 2010 & 2011 with just a small H&S top pattern. The real pattern that is talking to us is the 7 point bearish falling wedge that broke through the bottom rail in the middle of March of this year.

AU has a diamond top in place. Note the bottom blue rail and how it supported the price action until it finally was broken to the downside. There were no more bulls left to buy the bottom rail so you get a breakout that is vertical in nature. On the weekly bar chart you can see a beautiful H&S top formation.

CDE has an unbalanced H&S top in place.

ELD.TO has a double top in place. You could make a case for a H&S top also but the bottom line is, the dashed black rail that is your support and resistance rail. That goes for all the charts I’m showing.  Regardless of what pattens are above the black dashed rails its the dashed black rails or the support and resistance rails that count. Just think of them as support rails turning into resistance rails once they are broken.

FCX has a beautiful H&S top pattern in place but is still trading above the all important neckline. Note the end of the chart and the little bounce we are getting off the neckline. That little bounce is telling us that neckline is hot and when it gets broken to the downside it will then reveres it’s role and act as resistance on any backtest.

GFI has a triangle reversal pattern as it’s top. Again notice the bottom red rail of the triangle and how it held support and then once broken prices fell in a near vertical move until it can find some support.

GG has a 7 point bearish falling flag in place. It got to within a point or so of doing a complete backtest this past week at 42.25.

Gold, Randgold, is bouncing off it’s support and resistance rail. Note the small H&S top that started this latest move down. This stock could be building out a bigger H&S top formation before its all said and done.

GSS built a H&S top and more recently broke out of a bearish expanding falling wedge consolidation pattern.

HL has been locked in a downtrend channel for well over a year now. Anyone trying to pick a bottom in this stock has been disappointed so far.

HMY has a 5 point bearish falling wedge that has broken down.

IAG had a 5 point triangle reversal pattern for it’s top. It wasted little time in falling to it’s most recent lows where it may start to form some type of consolidation pattern.

NEM has a small H&S top in place but the real pattern is the expanding uptrend channel. Note the price action once the bottom blue rail of the expanding channel gave way.

PAAS was one of the PM stocks that broke out earlier than the rest. It had a small double top that started the decline you see on the chart below.

RGLD has been one of the stronger PM stocks. It has an interesting setup as there are 5 reversal points in the big blue rising wedge and we now are working on a possible 5th reversal point on the red rectangle. If RGLD can take out the top blue rail that would be a very positive development.

SLW is showing an unbalanced H&S top in place. It’s in the process of backtesting the neckline at 28.50 on a weekly closing basis. Note how many times the neckline was tested before the breakout came.

SSRI had a nice H&S top that was built at the apex of the big blue bearish rising wedge.

Lets look at one more chart. YRI.TO that has been one of the stronger PM stocks. Notice the black dashed rail that I have labeled as a critical support rail. Note how many times it was touched as support and now its having a critical backtest from the underside.

Now that we have looked under the hood of the precious metals indexes it looks to me like we still have alot of work to do before these stocks are ready to launch a major rally. I Know how hard hard it is to be on the sidelines right now waiting for the opportunity to buy the PM stocks but I can guarantee you that it would be more painful if you bought in and watched your favorite PM stock go against you. Cash is king right now and the opportunities will present themselves if we have patience. We had a successful backtest to the neckline, on the bar chart, this week for the HUI. We could still go up and test that big neckline several more times before its all said and done. As always I’ll be on the lookout for any bottoming formations to form from which the PM stocks could launch a major rally. As of right now we still seem to be in an impulse leg lower with some backing filling to be expected along the way.   All the best…Rambus

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You will find Rambus to be a calm humble down home country tutor with an incredible repitoir of all the TA based protocols tempered with his own one of a kind style…simply put…He wants to keep his subscribers on the right side of these crazy volitile and downright dangerous markets
See you at the Rambus Chartology
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The first chart I want to show is the divergence chart that compares the HUI to the SPX. You can see the divergence is taking place over the last 3 weeks or so, yellow vertical zone. Today the SPX is up and the HUI is down. If the Dow rallies up to the 12,650 area, that I showed on the last post, we could see some weakness in the HUI and at that point is where things will get interesting for the HUI and PM stocks in general. If the negative correlation continues to play out and the stock markets top out over the next few days or so the PM stocks maybe bottoming out. Its something I’ve been watching very close.

The next chart is a daily bar chart that shows a 5 point bearish falling wedge that had a beautiful backtest yesterday to the bottom rail. This tells us the bottom blue rail is hot and to pay close attention on how the price action interacts with it.

The next chart is a weekly look that shows the big H&S top pattern with the backtest to the neckline yesterday at 465. That’s a million dollar neckline. If the HUI can ever trade above it, that would be showing much strength that would suggest a strong move up for the PM stocks. On the other hand as long as it holds resistance the PM stocks will not be able to rally any higher than this current move higher. I also put on a possible trading range if the HUI stalls out right here, between neckline # 1 and neckline #2.

I want to show you one more chart that is a monthly look. Its easy to see how the neckline is working as support and resistance. Above it has acted as support and below it has acted as resistance so far.

The bottom line is how is the HUI going to act if the Dow tops out at 12,650? Will it rally up and break through the neckline? How long will the negative divergence last? We’re definitely at a critical area right here where anything can happen quickly.

I’ve been working on the PM stocks and if the HUI can take out the neckline to the upside I’ll be ready to post a model portfolio. So lets see what happens over the next day or two and take it from there.

All the precious metals stock indexes are starting to reach into there respective resistance zones from the big H&S top patterns. The HUI touched the lower end of resistance at 465 this morning. The top end of the resistance zone comes in around the 480 area.

GDX is also approaching its neckline around the 49 area.

The XAU is approaching it’s resistance area in the 172 area, brown zone on chart below.

If this precious metals stocks rally is for real then these critically important resistance rails will be taken out to the upside. For right now, sitting on the sideline and observing the price action, seems like the prudent thing to do. You can call this area an inflection point as this area will determine the next move for the precious metals stocks. If it fails then we go back down and if the PM stocks show some serious strength in here and break back above the resistance rails that would be very positive. There is nothing wrong with having a big cash position at this juncture to deploy when we get alittle more clarity.