Thursday , 28 March 2024

Part 2: Gold Has Bottomed & Is Now On Way to $4,000 (+2K Views)

In an opposite mode to the very bearish outlook for stock markets, developing goldevidence suggests that precious metals and in particular gold and gold stocks have completed a bear market low…and have already begun a major bull market.

The above comments are edited excerpts from an article* by Ian Gordon (longwavegroup.com) as posted on Gold-Eagle.com under the title Stock Markets Versus Gold presented here on munKNEE.com in a 2-part series. (See Part 1 here).

The following article is presented courtesy of Lorimer Wilson, editor of www.munKNEE.com (Your Key to Making Money!) and has been edited, abridged and/or reformatted (some sub-titles and bold/italics emphases) for the sake of clarity and brevity to ensure a fast and easy read. This paragraph must be included in any article re-posting to avoid copyright infringement.

Gordon goes on to say in further edited excerpts:

The bearishness in this domain is palpable. The junior sector has been decimated and investor participation in the sector is virtually non-existent. “After all, who needs gold when stock markets are at record high values?” In such a bearish environment most of the sellers are long gone and now all that it will take is some tentative buying to push prices slowly higher. There are indications that is now occurring.

Many gold stocks’ prices have already moved significantly off their lows. In the junior sector such movement is very limited. That is to be expected, money flows to the juniors only as confidence in the bullish outlook for gold and the gold stock miners builds. That process has further to go, before junior miners begin to attract money. In the meantime many of them are building large basing patterns that foretell significant price moves to the upside.

When the debt bubble bursts, as it surely will, and deflation is the result, the run to gold and gold stocks, including the junior exploration companies will turn into a stampede. We are very close to this catastrophic period in the long wave cycle. The recent reports of major banking problems in Portugal and Austria may be the precursors.

Gold

Bullish consensus, measured by Market Vane, for gold has moved off an extreme low of 33% recorded in the week of December 3, 2013 – the lowest level recorded since 2001 when the price of gold was hardly $300 (U.S.) per ounce. That in itself is an indication of how dispirited gold investors have become.

All previous bullish consensus lows since 2001 were above 50%, even following times of fairly significant corrections to the gold price. For a contrarian that extreme low is a bullish ‘buy’ signal. Since that low the consensus moved to 53% in the week of March 18, 2014. After that a small correction took the consensus down into the low 40s%. From there the bullish consensus has again risen to the low 50s%.

As for the price of gold, it made a double bottom in June and December 2013 at $1,192 (U.S.) and $1,195 (U.S.) per ounce based on the London PM fix. In technical analysis, double price bottoms are important indicators of a price reversal…

HUI Index

Meanwhile, the HUI (Gold Bugs Index) reached its low of $190.08 in late December 2013 and then moved up to $258.27 in the middle of March 2014. From that point the Index dropped to a low of $203.50 on May 28th, 2014...[While] from a technical standpoint prices have made a higher low than the December $190.08 low, it would be very constructive if prices could close meaningfully above the high of $258.27. This would convincingly demonstrate that the bearish trend consisting of lower high prices and lower low prices had changed in favour of a renewed bullish trend on the basis that HUI prices would be making higher high prices and higher low prices, which is confirmation of a bullish trend.

The Dow/Gold Ratio

…I consider the Dow/Gold ratio to be one of the most important relative measures of two competing investment themes…That competition for investment money is apparent within the long wave seasons.

  • When stocks are in favour with investors, as in spring and autumn, gold is not;
  • when stocks are out of favour with investors as in summer and winter, gold is always the investment of choice.

This can be seen by the highs and lows that the ratio achieves, typically at the end  of the long wave seasons.

  • In spring, which heralds the rebirth of the economy, stocks rise in sync with the growing economy. In the current long wave cycle spring (1949-1966), the DJIA increased in value from 161 points to 995 points and the Dow/Gold ratio peaked at 28.26.
  • Summer is always the inflationary season in the cycle and stocks are out of favour, whereas gold is purchased as an inflation hedge. The price of gold increased from $35.00 (U.S.) per ounce at the beginning of summer of 1966 and reached $850.00 (U.S.) per ounce at summer’s end in 1980, dropping the ratio to 1 to 1.
  • Autumn is always the speculative season in the cycle, and in this season, stock markets always make enormous price gains (4th. Cycle autumn-DJIA 777 points-11,750 points) and the price of gold on the other hand experiences a bear market. During the long wave autumn (1980/82-2000) of the current long wave cycle the gold price dropped from the summer ending $850.00 (U.S.) per ounce to $252.00 (U.S.) at the end of autumn. The Dow/Gold ratio as a result of the huge stock bull market and the major gold price bear market reached a record high of 43.85 in July 1999. That high signaled the end of autumn and the onset of winter.
  • Winter is the most bearish season for stocks and the most bullish for gold.

[During this particular occasion]…stock prices have not adhered to the typical pattern of a winter stock bear market. In past long wave winter bear markets, while they have been devastating for stock prices, they have taken a relatively short time to run their course. (For example, in the previous long wave winter, the DJIA reached the autumn stock bull market peak of 381.17 points on September 3, 1929 and the winter bear market was complete by July 8, 1932 at 41.22 points, which amounted to a little less than a 90% loss in price.) Suffice to say, the present long wave winter bear market, which technically commenced in 2000 has been manipulated and controlled by the authorities and in particular the Federal Reserve…That control is about to end, and the ensuing bear market will overwhelm all attempts to forestall the natural process of a winter bear market.

The ongoing unscrupulous interference in the natural process of the stock market has contributed to a distortion in the Dow/Gold ratio in favour of the Dow…This perversion of the ratio occurred following the counter trend rally into August 2012 when the ratio reached a level of 8.26 following the ratio low of 5.78 in August 2011. Following that rally into August 2012, the ratio should have turned down to make a lower low than 5.78 if it had been following normal bear market price action, which until then had been a series of lower highs and lower lows. That was not to be.

Those of us who are in the gold camp can take solace in knowing that ultimately this ratio is going to fall to a minimum of 1 to 1. As I see it, however that ratio will drop to something significantly lower than that. I have long maintained the ratio will reach 1 to .0.25 or Dow 1,000 and the price of gold $4,000 (U.S.) per ounce. In other words, 1 gold sovereign (1/4 of an ounce) will buy the Dow Jones Industrial Average.

There is an old trader’s rule that reads-“If a stock in a bear market hasn’t made a new low in four months, it has probably seen its low for the cycle. Conversely in a bull market, if a stock hasn’t made a new high in four months, it has probably seen its high for the cycle.”  The price of both the HUI and Gold have not made new lows in four months, thus according to the rule they have likely made their lows for the cycle and are now in a cyclical bullish phase. On the other hand, the general stock markets continue to make new highs, thus we can’t use the four month rule to determine whether stock markets have turned bearish.

Using this traders ‘yardstick’ we can conclude that the price low has already been reached for gold and for gold equities and that we are now at the start of a new bull run, which should ultimately take prices to record highs.

Editor’s Note: The author’s views and conclusions in the above article are unaltered and no personal comments have been included to maintain the integrity of the original post. Furthermore, the views, conclusions and any recommendations offered in this article are not to be construed as an endorsement of such by the editor.

*http://www.gold-eagle.com/article/stock-markets-versus-gold

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One comment

  1. I think that the second half of 2014 is going to be a DIFFICULT time for many, since we are now dealing with real problems that are getting much worse in several parts of the Middle East and also in the Ukraine. It is also important to mention the formation of the New Development Bank (NDB), which will add to the pressures upon the US Economy to be able to cope with the reduced buying power of the US$ globally.

    Does anyone else watching the value of the US$ (vs PM’s) keep having the phrase “Over Leveraged” come to mind?

    This is why depending solely upon past history (charts) and not also listening to your “gut” is not prudent, especially when the world is chaotic.

    Ask yourself, if things do get worse, how will my portfolio fair and more importantly, what can I do today to make my portfolio more resilient?