{"id":6299,"date":"2017-07-28T07:30:00","date_gmt":"2017-07-28T07:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/market-minute\/its-a-golden-breakout\/"},"modified":"2017-07-28T07:30:00","modified_gmt":"2017-07-28T07:30:00","slug":"its-a-golden-breakout","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jeffclarktrader.com\/market-minute\/its-a-golden-breakout\/","title":{"rendered":"It\u2019s a Golden Breakout"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> \tWell, it&rsquo;s about time.<\/p>\n<p> \tFor weeks I&rsquo;ve been writing about the potential for an upside breakout in the gold sector. On July 18, I showed you that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.jeffclarktrader.com\/market-minute\/the-first-gold-stock-buy-signal-of-2017\">we got a buy signal from the gold stock Bullish Percent Index<\/a>.&nbsp; And, on Tuesday, I showed you that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.jeffclarktrader.com\/market-minute\/the-best-time-to-buy-gold-and-silver-since-december-2015\">the smart money had turned bullish on gold and silver<\/a>.&nbsp; All that was left to fall into place was a breakout in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.jeffclarktrader.com\/market-minute\/gold-stocks-are-gearing-up-for-a-big-move\">the GDX\/Gold ratio chart<\/a> I showed you earlier this month.<\/p>\n<p> \tThe breakout finally happened.&nbsp; Take a look at this updated chart&hellip;<\/p>\n<p> \t<img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/assets.jeffclarktrader.com\/ee-assets\/channels\/articles\/Screen_Shot_2017-07-28_at_11.03.14.png\" style=\"width: 100%; max-width:550px; margin:0 auto;\" width=\"550\" \/><\/p>\n<p> \tRemember, this ratio compares gold mining stocks from the VanEck Vectors Gold Miners Fund (GDX) to the yellow metal itself.&nbsp; When this chart is moving higher, gold stocks are performing better than the metal. That&rsquo;s bullish for the gold sector. When it&rsquo;s moving lower, gold stocks are underperforming gold. Typically, that&rsquo;s bearish for the gold sector.<\/p>\n<p> \tThis chart peaked back in February at about the same time as gold and gold stocks peaked. For the past three months, this chart has been forming a consolidating triangle pattern -building energy for its next big move.<\/p>\n<p> \tThat move started on Wednesday, and it&rsquo;s to the upside.<\/p>\n<p> \tThe GDX\/Gold ratio chart has busted higher out of its consolidating triangle pattern.&nbsp; This should mark the start of an intermediate term rally phase for the gold sector.&nbsp; Of course, it won&rsquo;t be a straight up move.&nbsp; But, gold stocks should be higher several weeks from now than where they are today.<\/p>\n<p> \tWe now have three solid technical reasons to own gold stocks:&nbsp; a BPGDM buy signal; a bullish Commitment of Traders setup; and an upside breakout in the GDX\/Gold ratio chart.<\/p>\n<p> \tTraders should view any short-term weakness in the sector as an opportunity to add more exposure to gold and silver stocks.<\/p>\n<p> \tBest Regards and Good Trading,<\/p>\n<div style=\"margin-bottom:20px;\"> \t<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/casey-assets.s3.amazonaws.com\/images\/misc\/jeff-clark-signature.png\" style=\"max-width: 150px; width:150px\" width=\"150\" \/><\/div>\n<p> \tJeff Clark<\/p>\n<p> \t<strong>P.S.<\/strong> The indicators are telling us an intermediate term rally is about to kick off for gold. Are you preparing to take advantage? Drop me a note by clicking <a href=\"mailto:feedback@jeffclarktrader.com\">right here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The gold sector has been dropping clues for weeks that it could be setting up for a rally. That day might have finally arrived.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":28,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","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-6299","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\/6299","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\/28"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jeffclarktrader.com\/market-minute\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6299"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jeffclarktrader.com\/market-minute\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6299\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jeffclarktrader.com\/market-minute\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6299"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jeffclarktrader.com\/market-minute\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6299"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jeffclarktrader.com\/market-minute\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6299"},{"taxonomy":"publication","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jeffclarktrader.com\/market-minute\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/publication?post=6299"},{"taxonomy":"person","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jeffclarktrader.com\/market-minute\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/person?post=6299"},{"taxonomy":"newsletter-type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jeffclarktrader.com\/market-minute\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/newsletter-type?post=6299"},{"taxonomy":"ticker","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jeffclarktrader.com\/market-minute\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ticker?post=6299"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}