{"id":16137,"date":"2020-05-16T07:30:53","date_gmt":"2020-05-16T11:30:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.jeffclarktrader.com\/?p=16137"},"modified":"2020-05-16T07:30:53","modified_gmt":"2020-05-16T11:30:53","slug":"the-most-important-trend-in-finance-is-back-on-its-go-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jeffclarktrader.com\/market-minute\/the-most-important-trend-in-finance-is-back-on-its-go-time\/","title":{"rendered":"The Most Important Trend in Finance Is Back On \u2013 It\u2019s Go Time"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Mike&rsquo;s note:<\/strong>&nbsp;At&nbsp;<em>Market Minute<\/em>, we bring you profitable trading advice that you won&rsquo;t find in the mainstream &ndash; especially in today&rsquo;s market. That&rsquo;s why when today&rsquo;s essay came across my desk, I had to share it with you.<\/p>\n<p>Tom Dyson is a world-traveling analyst and investor. A few years back, Tom left the U.S. to travel the world with his three kids and ex-wife, draining nearly all their savings and retirement accounts of cash and converting everything into gold and silver.<\/p>\n<p>Tom has long believed that our financial system is cracking. Given what&#8217;s happening &ndash; the bankruptcies, the layoffs, the surging national debt &ndash; he was prescient in his predictions. And now Tom is going &ldquo;all in&rdquo; on an idea he believes will have a massive impact on your financial future&hellip; and he shares how you can <a href=\"https:\/\/signup.rogueeconomics.com\/?cid=MKT463879&#038;eid=MKT465367&#038;step=start&#038;plcid=PLC069935\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">protect yourself while you profit<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Read on to see Tom&rsquo;s far more successful alternative to the &ldquo;buy-and-hold&rdquo; approach, and <a href=\"https:\/\/signup.rogueeconomics.com\/?cid=MKT463879&#038;eid=MKT465367&#038;step=start&#038;plcid=PLC069935\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">click right here<\/a> to learn about the single trade Tom has gone &ldquo;all in&rdquo; on that could 10x your money&hellip;<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>The most important trend in finance is the decline in the&nbsp;Dow-to-Gold ratio.<\/p>\n<p>The Dow-to-Gold ratio tracks the Dow Jones stocks as priced in gold. It tells us the best times to buy gold, and the best time to buy stocks.<\/p>\n<p>It peaked in 1999 at 41. Then it began what I call its &ldquo;long walk down the mountain&rdquo; to where it always ends up. That is, below 5.<\/p>\n<p>Let&rsquo;s call this the &ldquo;primary trend.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>But along this primary trend, it got waylaid. And it spent eight years backtracking. Eight long years&hellip; of fake money and rising stocks.<\/p>\n<p>Now, finally, this most important trend in finance is &ldquo;back on.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>To my mind &ndash; and for my money &ndash; it&rsquo;s presenting the biggest opportunity<br \/>\nto profit since, well&hellip; I found bitcoin in 2013.<\/p>\n<p>It&rsquo;s go time. This is it.<\/p>\n<h2 align=\"center\"><strong>My Gold Story: Why I Went &ldquo;All In&rdquo;<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>I left my job nearly two years ago. We sold all our things. Kate and I (we&rsquo;re divorced) hit the road with our three kids. We don&rsquo;t have anywhere to live. And we homeschool the kids.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>We left &ldquo;the matrix&rdquo; in another important way, too.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>When we left America, we drained our bank accounts and retirement accounts of cash, and we converted all our savings into gold and silver.<\/p>\n<p>Why did we do this? We don&rsquo;t want to be in the system anymore. It&rsquo;s unbalanced and unstable.<\/p>\n<p>So we&rsquo;re going to sit on the sidelines, in precious metals, until it&rsquo;s safe to return to the financial system. When it&rsquo;s finally safe, we&rsquo;ll sell all our gold and invest in the top dividend-raising stocks.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Our money will stay there &ndash; I hope &ndash; generating bigger and bigger dividends for the rest of our lives. (More on this in a moment.)<\/p>\n<p>How will we know when it&rsquo;s safe?&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>That&rsquo;s where the Dow-to-Gold ratio comes in. It&rsquo;s the ultimate barometer of systemic &ldquo;health&rdquo;&hellip;&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h2 align=\"center\"><strong>Recent Reversal<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>Our Dow-to-Gold trade is based on a simple premise&hellip;<\/p>\n<p>You buy stocks when they are cheap relative to gold. That is, when the Dow-to-Gold ratio is below 5.<\/p>\n<p>Then you sell stocks when they become expensive &ndash; when the Dow-to-gold ratio rises above 15. At that point, you return to gold.<\/p>\n<p>Over the course of the last 100 years, you would have made only six trades. But you would have also handily beaten a &ldquo;buy-and-hold&rdquo; approach.<\/p>\n<p>The chart below shows it all. The towering peak in 1999. The countertrend rally from 2011<br \/>\nto 2018. And if you look carefully, a recent reversal&hellip;<\/p>\n<div class=\"text-center mb-4\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.jeffclarktrader.com\/JMU\/images\/202005\/20200516-jmu-01_zzs332.png\" alt=\"Chart\" class=\"img-fluid\" \/><\/div>\n<p>I interpret this recent reversal as the Dow-to-Gold&rsquo;s primary trend reasserting itself, getting back on track, and once again marching back down towards single digits.<\/p>\n<p>This next chart shows the zoom-in of the last two decades or so&hellip;<\/p>\n<div class=\"text-center mb-4\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.jeffclarktrader.com\/JMU\/images\/202005\/20200516-jmu-02_zzs332.png\" alt=\"Chart\" class=\"img-fluid\" \/><\/div>\n<p>The ratio topped out at 22.36 in October 2018. It&rsquo;s been falling since&hellip; and I speculate it&rsquo;s about to head much lower.<\/p>\n<p>Of course, if I&rsquo;m wrong and the Dow-to-Gold ratio isn&rsquo;t ready to resume its primary trend lower, the market will let us know.<\/p>\n<p>How? By making a new high, rising above 22.36, and invalidating the downtrend. (It&rsquo;s why I set our &ldquo;stop loss&rdquo; at 22.36.)<\/p>\n<p>But I&rsquo;m willing to bet that&rsquo;s not going to happen&hellip;&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h2 align=\"center\"><strong>Trend in Motion<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>The ratio likes to move in big, clear trends. And once it&rsquo;s in motion, it tends to stay in motion.<\/p>\n<p>Its drop in 2018 implied that gold would start outperforming the stock market&hellip; possibly for as much as the next five or 10 years.<\/p>\n<p>I immediately drained my bank and retirement accounts and put everything into gold and silver. Then, I started nagging my friends and family to do the same.<\/p>\n<p>Remember, the ratio peaked in October 2018 at 22.36.<\/p>\n<p>My hypothesis is that the Dow-to-Gold ratio is now back on its way down&hellip; to a level somewhere below 5. Bill Bonner calls this its &ldquo;rendezvous with destiny.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>I will hold my gold until then, at which point I&rsquo;ll sell it all and invest the proceeds into the stock market.<\/p>\n<p>Specifically, I will buy what I call &ldquo;dividend aristocrats.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>These are companies like Coca-Cola, Johnson &amp; Johnson, AT&amp;T, etc. They have decades-long track records of relentlessly raising their dividends.<\/p>\n<p>There are no better passive investments than stocks like these. You get rich twice this way. One from the rising dividends and two, from the compounding effect of reinvesting dividends.<\/p>\n<p>There is no better way to grow wealth.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>But until it&rsquo;s time to buy these dividend aristocrats, I&rsquo;m sitting on the sidelines in gold, where I will remain until stocks are ready to beat gold again. Then, I will resume my long-term &ldquo;dividend aristocrat&rdquo; compounding strategy.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>If I&rsquo;m right about this &ndash; and if I time my zigzag correctly &ndash; my family will never have to worry about money again.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Until then, I&rsquo;m keeping an eye on the Dow-to-Gold ratio. It&rsquo;s at 13.5 today.<\/p>\n<p>Regards,<\/p>\n<p>Tom Dyson<\/p>\n<p>Editor, <em>Postcards From the Fringe<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>P.S.<\/strong> While bullion will protect your wealth, I&rsquo;ve created an entire trade to profit on this opportunity.<\/p>\n<p>I&rsquo;ve invested nearly $1 million of my own money into this strategy. And on Wednesday, May 20, I&rsquo;m sharing the details in <a href=\"https:\/\/signup.rogueeconomics.com\/?cid=MKT463879&#038;eid=MKT465367&#038;step=start&#038;plcid=PLC070313\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">a special briefing<\/a>&hellip;<\/p>\n<p>My mentor Bill Bonner will even be joining in from his ranch in Argentina. To make sure you don&rsquo;t miss it, <a href=\"https:\/\/signup.rogueeconomics.com\/?cid=MKT463879&#038;eid=MKT465367&#038;step=start&#038;plcid=PLC070313\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">reserve your spot right here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The most important trend in finance is the decline in&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":43,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"ep_exclude_from_search":false,"service":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"publication":[10],"person":[64],"newsletter-type":[],"ticker":[],"class_list":["post-16137","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-market-minute","publication-market-minute","person-tom-dyson"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jeffclarktrader.com\/market-minute\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16137","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jeffclarktrader.com\/market-minute\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jeffclarktrader.com\/market-minute\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jeffclarktrader.com\/market-minute\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/43"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jeffclarktrader.com\/market-minute\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16137"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jeffclarktrader.com\/market-minute\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16137\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jeffclarktrader.com\/market-minute\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16137"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jeffclarktrader.com\/market-minute\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16137"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jeffclarktrader.com\/market-minute\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16137"},{"taxonomy":"publication","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jeffclarktrader.com\/market-minute\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/publication?post=16137"},{"taxonomy":"person","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jeffclarktrader.com\/market-minute\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/person?post=16137"},{"taxonomy":"newsletter-type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jeffclarktrader.com\/market-minute\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/newsletter-type?post=16137"},{"taxonomy":"ticker","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jeffclarktrader.com\/market-minute\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ticker?post=16137"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}