ABX, XAU and HUI, again

abx march 16 2015 babx march 16 2015 s

This weekend  all of a sudden you could get 5 year charts from Stockcharts.com. Perhaps this is only a temporary expansion of their free product line but it is welcome in any event. ABX is starting to become extremely annoying as it simple will not show its hand conclusively. It has almost been 1/2 year without either confirming or negating a particular scenario , count or outlook. That is not helpful.

However, on the positive side we have at least the possibility of a completed EW pattern if we make a sharp wedge of wave 5. The $11.67 low would be the low and now it is just a matter of time. Both the RSI and the MACD have improved over time and suggest  a decent bull run could be in the cards. Symmetry, a frequent occurrence, would suggest a low just above $12 (see red line); we have already gone a little beyond that. The long and short of it is that we think it is a good buy here once again but we cannot exclude the possibility of a spike down to $9 in the worst case.

Both the XAU and HUI have similar patterns except that they are sporting triangles which makes it more certain. But both start of with a mess which could be a series of 1-2’s so you could expect 4-5’s at the bottom.

xau march 16 2015HUI march 16 2015

The XAU came to within a dollar of our longstanding target. It’s top is earlier than the HUI and it is messy sugesting a series of 1-2’s.  The HUI is much cleaner but also seems ton have a wave too much at the top. All should be a buy here given that a 40% retracement – the standard minimum – should outweigh any further drop should it occur.

HUI or Gold Bug ETF, Jan 2010

Like the XAU the HUI is a great index to see what might happen in the gold space. In this case, see below, it more or less confirms, or at least , supports our bearish stance. Also it provides a very good example of how patterns occur over and over albeit usually in a specific order. These are both standard wedges, they always occur at tops and are invariable retraced in their entirety. Notice also that both the RSI and the MACD both warn of imminent tops, in the former case even by almost 6 months.

HUI

Another dead give away is the double top without a clear impuls  wave leading to the second top. Chances are that the first top is the “real” one and the second simple the result of an overly exuberant retracement, which may mean that what we are looking at is an A-B-C flat in which case the HUI  might (repeat might ) trade back to the lows.