{"id":21630,"date":"2024-03-05T07:30:22","date_gmt":"2024-03-05T12:30:22","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2024-03-05T07:30:22","modified_gmt":"2024-03-05T12:30:22","slug":"the-gold-sector-just-triggered-a-buy-signal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jeffclarktrader.com\/market-minute\/the-gold-sector-just-triggered-a-buy-signal\/","title":{"rendered":"The Gold Sector Just Triggered a Buy Signal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.jeffclarktrader.com\/glossary\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Bullish Percent Index<\/strong><\/a>&nbsp;for the gold sector (BPGDM) just triggered a buy signal.<\/p>\n<p>The BPGDM generates only one or two trading signals each year. The last buy signal we got back in October kicked off a three-month-long 25% rally in the gold sector.<\/p>\n<p>This current buy signal is set up to be just as powerful.<\/p>\n<p>Let me explain&hellip;<\/p>\n<p>The BPGDM measures the percentage of gold stocks that are trading in a&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.jeffclarktrader.com\/glossary\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>bullish<\/strong><\/a>&nbsp;technical formation. It&rsquo;s basically a gauge of overbought and oversold conditions.<\/p>\n<p>Since it&rsquo;s measured as a percentage, a bullish percent index can only reach as high as 100% or fall as low as zero.<\/p>\n<p>Typically, a sector is extremely overbought when its bullish percent index rallies above 80%. It&rsquo;s extremely oversold when it drops below 30%.<\/p>\n<p>Trading signals are generated when the index reaches extreme levels and then reverses.<\/p>\n<p>Take a look at this long-term chart of BPGDM&hellip;<\/p>\n<p><!--IMG SNIP--><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-bottom: 20px\" align=\"center\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"img-fluid\" alt=\"Image\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.jeffclarktrader.com\/JMU\/images\/202403\/20240305-JMU-01.png\"><\/p>\n<p>The blue arrows on the chart point to the previous buy signals of the past four years.<\/p>\n<p>Here&rsquo;s how the Gold Bugs Index (HUI) performed after all of those signals&hellip;<\/p>\n<p><!--IMG SNIP--><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-bottom: 20px\" align=\"center\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"img-fluid\" alt=\"Image\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.jeffclarktrader.com\/JMU\/images\/202403\/20240305-JMU-02.png\"><\/p>\n<p>HUI gained 33% in four months following the buy signal in December 2021. It rallied 45% in four months after the October 2022 signal. The gold sector surged 25% in just one month following the signal last March. And, HUI gained 25% in three months after the BPGDM buy signal in October.<\/p>\n<p>Last Friday, the BPGDM triggered another buy signal. This time, it&rsquo;s happening with the gold sector trading at its lowest relative value to the S&amp;P 500 in over two decades.<\/p>\n<p>So, conditions are set for one heck of a gold stock rally.<\/p>\n<p><!--GREY BOX START--><\/p>\n<div class=\"card bg-light mb-4\">\n<div class=\"card-body\">\n<p align=\"center\" style=\"font-size: 18px;\"><strong>Free Trading Resources<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Have you checked out Jeff&#8217;s free trading resources on his website? It contains a selection of special reports, training videos, and a full trading glossary to help kickstart your trading career \u2013 at zero cost to you. Just <a href=\"https:\/\/www.jeffclarktrader.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">click here<\/a> to check it out.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><!--GREY BOX END--><\/p>\n<p>Of course, the gold sector has been hard to trade over the past year. We&rsquo;ve seen lots of potentially bullish setups fail. That has led to lots of frustration among gold stock traders. And, it has created an extremely pessimistic atmosphere.<\/p>\n<p>But it is from this sort of extreme pessimism that the best rallies develop.<\/p>\n<p>I expect the gold sector will be much higher a few weeks from now than where it is today. Traders should look to buy gold stocks on any weakness in the days ahead.<\/p>\n<p>Best regards and good trading,<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Signature\" src=\"https:\/\/files.jeffclarktrader.com\/global\/signatures\/jeff-clark-signature.png\" width=\"200\" style=\"max-width:200px; width:100%;\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Jeff Clark<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The last buy signal kicked off a 25% rally in the gold sector.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":55,"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":[7],"newsletter-type":[],"ticker":[],"class_list":["post-21630","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-market-minute","publication-market-minute","person-jeff-clark"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jeffclarktrader.com\/market-minute\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21630","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\/55"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jeffclarktrader.com\/market-minute\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21630"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jeffclarktrader.com\/market-minute\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21630\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jeffclarktrader.com\/market-minute\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21630"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jeffclarktrader.com\/market-minute\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21630"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jeffclarktrader.com\/market-minute\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21630"},{"taxonomy":"publication","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jeffclarktrader.com\/market-minute\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/publication?post=21630"},{"taxonomy":"person","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jeffclarktrader.com\/market-minute\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/person?post=21630"},{"taxonomy":"newsletter-type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jeffclarktrader.com\/market-minute\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/newsletter-type?post=21630"},{"taxonomy":"ticker","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jeffclarktrader.com\/market-minute\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ticker?post=21630"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}