How are Gold, Silver and Mining Companies Shaping Up?

By Bob Kirtley, skoptionstrading

We will begin with a review of the charts for gold, silver and the gold bugs index, the HUI, to see where we are now and just where we might be headed from here.

However, to put the charts into context we need to take into consideration the surrounding political, economic and investment landscape.  These are volatile times with the financial markets in turmoil as what were perceived to be sound and secure governments now toil under the strain of their own excesses.  The borrow and spend philosophies are coming back like a bad penny, to haunt not just those who caused this mess, but also for the rest of us, who are expected to clear it up.

The follies vary from mismanagement to corruption, resulting in people taking to the street to protest the latest craze of austerity and belt tightening.  Society, in general, has high expectations in terms of their standard of living and the mere thought of it heading lower is not acceptable to them.

Take state pensions, for example, millions of people are expecting it to be there for them when they retire, however, the pension’s cupboard is empty and therefore the concept of sitting back as the cheques roll in is well and truly dead in the water.

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Taking a quick look at the gold chart above we can see that the selloff in gold prices of $60.00/oz has now steadied and gold appears to be set to continue its rally.  Note both the 50 day and the 200 day moving averages are climbing gently in support.  The RSI has turned north and the STO has just made a crossover, which is usually a positive sign.

Next we have the HUI which is making steady progress despite the volatility and is now perched just above the 200dma.  Looking at the technical indicators we can see the RSI has turned north just above the ‘30′ level and that the STO has also turned up having dipped below ‘20′, again all technical positives for the gold and silver mining producers.

Turning to silver we can see that the pull back looks to have run its course so we are looking for silver prices to head to higher ground.  The technical indicators are now out of the overbought zone thus reducing the selling pressure on silver and allowing it space to resume its advance.

In conclusion we are of the opinion that the precious metals should once again be bought, gold, silver and their associated stocks.

As a word of warning though, it’s still not clear to us whether or not the stocks will go down in the face of a broader market selloff, should it occur. So go gently and make your acquisitions on a ‘layered’ basis.

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