Investing

The HUI Gold Bugs index has fallen twice as much as gold’s bear market loss of 43% but, looking at the charts, both are saying the lows may already be in.

On the very last day of the last two Shemitah years, the stock market crashed so badly that it set a brand new all-time record and now we are in another Shemitah year. It began last fall, and it will end next September. Could it be possible that we will see another historic market crash?

When comparing the S&P 500 to the Barron's Gold Mining Index (BGMI), the ratio reached a high of 6.32 during the 1987-2000 bull market. The ratio today is 6.39. The higher the ratio, the cheaper gold companies are which means...we are seeing the cheapest gold stocks ever!

The market's history often provides clues to its future - we're big fans of precedent analysis - so now's a good time to delve into prior, similar instances to see what they led to [and, therefore, what we might expect in the next 2 months].

The bear market for gold is long in the tooth...and gold stocks are the most undervalued they have been in decades.

Where do we go from here? I can promise you, it's only going to get worse! Like our economy, there is clear seasonality when it comes to stocks. Trends flesh out overtime. It's not random. From that data, I want to give you a picture of what the next few months might look like.

Martin Armstrong says gold touched rock bottom last week and will begin to rally sometime after October 1st, 2015 and reach $5,000+ an ounce in 2016.

Over the last week, the S&P 500 has been decimated...and decades of financial data suggest that further downside is entirely likely...anywhere from 10-30% is over the next year. Here's why.

Historically, the average P/E ratio of the S&P 500 is 16.64, and a reversion to said mean would represent a further decline in the index of 33%.

In this article I present 12 dividend growth stocks that are fairly valued and offer above-average earnings and dividend growth potential.