NEM and the XAU Are Trying To Fill Today's Upside Gaps
There should be downside gap filling this week since the major upcycle's Elliot Wave 3 minor int term cycle high occurred last Tuesday 1-17 for HUI, NEM, and the XAU and NEM underperformed the XAU last week by a very bearish -4.36%. Wave 4 is likely to last 4 to 8 weeks and have declines greater than 20%. The previous parabolic major upcycle's Wave 4 down lasted 7 weeks and the XAU fell -25.11%, from 82.89 on 1-24-03 to 62.08 on 3-13-03 (same timeframe!), then a double bottom occurred about two weeks later, so it was a long correction and a very flat start to Wave 5 in the previous parabolic major upcycle.
The XAU Put/Call Ratio points to weakness but XAU Implied Volatility points to some strength today, with that strength probably being the early upside gap filling (trying to) action. The NEM Lead Indicator is a bearish -0.35% right now versus the XAU after being a slightly bullish +0.18% yesterday. Major upcycle (since 5-16-05) Elliot Wave 3 cycle highs probably occurred on Tuesday for HUI/NEM/XAU, because a 2% minor int term cycle sell signal occurred on Wednesday 1-18, which are important though not major/final cycle highs.
Today's Fed Credit so far is a respectable +$7 Billion ( http://www.newyorkfed.org/markets/omo/dmm/temp.cfm ) after a large $10.00 Billion 1 day Repo yesterday, which has had the effect of propping up more than spiking. Federal Reserve Bank Credit appears to be a very reliable short term cycle indicator (based on backtesting) when it has a substantial weekly change or a very large daily change, but cycles are the primary consideration by far. A very sharp decline in gold/silver stocks has begun that probably is the major upcycle's (since 5-16-05) Elliot Wave 4 down. See http://www.joefrocks.com/GoldStockCharts.html for HUI and NEM's latest 1 year charts that show the Elliot Wave Points.
NEM has downside gaps to fill at 53.40 from 1-3, at 51.59 from 12-28, at 50.45 from 12-22, and at 48.75 from 12-7, and, the XAU has downside gaps at 137.64 from 1-19, at 135.39 from 1-6, at 128.03 from 1-3, at 124.36 from 12-28, and at 122.49 from 12-22. Often cycle highs or lows will occur shortly after gaps get filled, so one needs to track gaps closely. If gaps don't get filled that can be a bearish or bullish sign, as occurred recently when NEM twice closely approached (daily cycle lows at 48.88 and 48.89) but didn't fill it's downside gap at 48.75, then the recent explosive rally occurred. NEM's failure to fill an upside gap near 59 during 3 sessions last week was a bearish indication.
http://finance.yahoo.com/q/ta?s=%5EGSPC&t=5d&l=off&z=l&q=b&p=&a=m26-12-9,m26-12-9,p12,m26-12-9,p12,fs,m26-12-9,p12,fs,w14&c=NEM,%5EXAU,%5EHUI SPX drives index funds which have a profound affect on the short term/weekly and monthly movements of many sectors, including gold/silver stocks. Rapid very modest % moves in SPX generally cause rapid significant moves in NEM and other gold/silver stocks in the many indices affected by SPX. The largest traders of NEM and other gold/silver stocks found in the various indexes are index fund traders, AND, they tend to trade at THE SAME TIME or nearly so, which is huge. The cycles are vastly different for gold/silver stocks and SPX since gold/silver stocks are in a very long term upcycle since Oct/Nov 2000 and SPX is in a very long term downcycle since March 2000.
XAU Implied Volatility rose +2.12% to 36.670 on Monday 1-23 from 35.910 on 1-20 versus a +0.92% rise in the XAU on 1-23, which is a very sharp (3-6%) +3.04% rise in fear (+2.12% + +0.92% = +3.04%. The XAU wall of worry grew by +3.04%, therefore fear rose by +3.04%) that portends strength/an uptrend during part of Tuesday 1-24's session.
The XAU Put/Call Ratio fell a significant (0.50-1.99%) -1.31% today to 1.22175 from 1.23803 on 1-23 which portends some weakness today because it's a significant rise in complacency.
The latest COT data (as of 1-17-06) is bearish short term since the gold Commercial Traders traded an unusually large long position and the gold Speculators traded an unusually large short position, both of which portend weakness for at least part of this week. Keep in mind that the data is three days old when released. The gold Commercial Traders added an unusually large (> 10% increase in long contracts) 10,554 (added 13,289, 6357 the prior two weeks, sold 1381, 8157 the prior two weeks, added 11,405 the prior week, sold 14,042 the prior week) long futures and options contracts and added a large 11,306 (added 4626, 3299 the prior two weeks, covered 2036 the prior week, added 4202, 2623 the prior two weeks) short futures and options contracts which portends weakness this week (non contrarian indicator), because the unusually large long trade is a short term contrarian indication and the aggressive short selling also points to weakness. The gold Speculators (hedge funds and other speculators/traders) added 5541 (added 2975, 1521 the prior two weeks, sold 3988, 5112, 19,247 the prior three weeks, added 9102 the prior week, sold 2697 the prior week) long futures and options contracts and added an unusually large (> 10% increase in short contracts) 3743 (added 9445, 5824 the prior two weeks, covered 1535, 7432, 8720 the prior three weeks) short futures and options contracts which portends weakness this week (contrarian indicator), because the unusually large short selling is a short term non contrarian indication. The most important consideration in timing any market is the cycle channels/trendlines (see charts).
See http://www.joefrocks.com/TradetheCycles.html for the weekly update. Scroll down a few pages past the major averages work to see the gold/silver stock work. See http://www.joefrocks.com/GoldStockCharts.html for all the charts. My home page is http://www.JoeFRocks.com/ I hope you'll take the time to e mail your friends re this Blog and my site/work/system. This will help to keep my work free, because the more visitors I get the more advertising $ I make. I have a long way to go but have made significant progress in recent months. Thank you.
The XAU Put/Call Ratio points to weakness but XAU Implied Volatility points to some strength today, with that strength probably being the early upside gap filling (trying to) action. The NEM Lead Indicator is a bearish -0.35% right now versus the XAU after being a slightly bullish +0.18% yesterday. Major upcycle (since 5-16-05) Elliot Wave 3 cycle highs probably occurred on Tuesday for HUI/NEM/XAU, because a 2% minor int term cycle sell signal occurred on Wednesday 1-18, which are important though not major/final cycle highs.
Today's Fed Credit so far is a respectable +$7 Billion ( http://www.newyorkfed.org/markets/omo/dmm/temp.cfm ) after a large $10.00 Billion 1 day Repo yesterday, which has had the effect of propping up more than spiking. Federal Reserve Bank Credit appears to be a very reliable short term cycle indicator (based on backtesting) when it has a substantial weekly change or a very large daily change, but cycles are the primary consideration by far. A very sharp decline in gold/silver stocks has begun that probably is the major upcycle's (since 5-16-05) Elliot Wave 4 down. See http://www.joefrocks.com/GoldStockCharts.html for HUI and NEM's latest 1 year charts that show the Elliot Wave Points.
NEM has downside gaps to fill at 53.40 from 1-3, at 51.59 from 12-28, at 50.45 from 12-22, and at 48.75 from 12-7, and, the XAU has downside gaps at 137.64 from 1-19, at 135.39 from 1-6, at 128.03 from 1-3, at 124.36 from 12-28, and at 122.49 from 12-22. Often cycle highs or lows will occur shortly after gaps get filled, so one needs to track gaps closely. If gaps don't get filled that can be a bearish or bullish sign, as occurred recently when NEM twice closely approached (daily cycle lows at 48.88 and 48.89) but didn't fill it's downside gap at 48.75, then the recent explosive rally occurred. NEM's failure to fill an upside gap near 59 during 3 sessions last week was a bearish indication.
http://finance.yahoo.com/q/ta?s=%5EGSPC&t=5d&l=off&z=l&q=b&p=&a=m26-12-9,m26-12-9,p12,m26-12-9,p12,fs,m26-12-9,p12,fs,w14&c=NEM,%5EXAU,%5EHUI SPX drives index funds which have a profound affect on the short term/weekly and monthly movements of many sectors, including gold/silver stocks. Rapid very modest % moves in SPX generally cause rapid significant moves in NEM and other gold/silver stocks in the many indices affected by SPX. The largest traders of NEM and other gold/silver stocks found in the various indexes are index fund traders, AND, they tend to trade at THE SAME TIME or nearly so, which is huge. The cycles are vastly different for gold/silver stocks and SPX since gold/silver stocks are in a very long term upcycle since Oct/Nov 2000 and SPX is in a very long term downcycle since March 2000.
XAU Implied Volatility rose +2.12% to 36.670 on Monday 1-23 from 35.910 on 1-20 versus a +0.92% rise in the XAU on 1-23, which is a very sharp (3-6%) +3.04% rise in fear (+2.12% + +0.92% = +3.04%. The XAU wall of worry grew by +3.04%, therefore fear rose by +3.04%) that portends strength/an uptrend during part of Tuesday 1-24's session.
The XAU Put/Call Ratio fell a significant (0.50-1.99%) -1.31% today to 1.22175 from 1.23803 on 1-23 which portends some weakness today because it's a significant rise in complacency.
The latest COT data (as of 1-17-06) is bearish short term since the gold Commercial Traders traded an unusually large long position and the gold Speculators traded an unusually large short position, both of which portend weakness for at least part of this week. Keep in mind that the data is three days old when released. The gold Commercial Traders added an unusually large (> 10% increase in long contracts) 10,554 (added 13,289, 6357 the prior two weeks, sold 1381, 8157 the prior two weeks, added 11,405 the prior week, sold 14,042 the prior week) long futures and options contracts and added a large 11,306 (added 4626, 3299 the prior two weeks, covered 2036 the prior week, added 4202, 2623 the prior two weeks) short futures and options contracts which portends weakness this week (non contrarian indicator), because the unusually large long trade is a short term contrarian indication and the aggressive short selling also points to weakness. The gold Speculators (hedge funds and other speculators/traders) added 5541 (added 2975, 1521 the prior two weeks, sold 3988, 5112, 19,247 the prior three weeks, added 9102 the prior week, sold 2697 the prior week) long futures and options contracts and added an unusually large (> 10% increase in short contracts) 3743 (added 9445, 5824 the prior two weeks, covered 1535, 7432, 8720 the prior three weeks) short futures and options contracts which portends weakness this week (contrarian indicator), because the unusually large short selling is a short term non contrarian indication. The most important consideration in timing any market is the cycle channels/trendlines (see charts).
See http://www.joefrocks.com/TradetheCycles.html for the weekly update. Scroll down a few pages past the major averages work to see the gold/silver stock work. See http://www.joefrocks.com/GoldStockCharts.html for all the charts. My home page is http://www.JoeFRocks.com/ I hope you'll take the time to e mail your friends re this Blog and my site/work/system. This will help to keep my work free, because the more visitors I get the more advertising $ I make. I have a long way to go but have made significant progress in recent months. Thank you.
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