Friday 6 February 2015

GDX - miners smacked lower into the weekend

With precious metals seeing some of the strongest daily declines of the year, the gold/silver mining stocks were naturally on the slide. The miner ETF of GDX settled lower by a very significant -5.5% @ $21.33. Next support is the $20 threshold... and then $18s into early March.


GDX, daily


Summary

Not surprisingly, precious metals are seeing renewed downside.. with a new multi-week down cycle now underway. The miners are thus naturally following... and GDX looks set to fall into the spring, if not across the summer.

There remains high possibility that GDX could be cut in half across the next six months or so.

Most bearish outlook remains...

GDX, weekly


Regardless of any further broader market strength, if the precious metals continue to weaken, then the miners will no doubt follow.