August 19, 2025 (Investorideas.com Newswire) The markets did little
yesterday, but it surely doesn’t suggest that we now have no alerts proper now.
Conversely, there are lots.
I coated a lot of them in my earlier
Gold Buying and selling Alerts, and at the moment, I would prefer to concentrate on the resistance ranges that had been
simply reached not solely in GDX and GDXJ, but additionally in different proxies for
mining shares — even in case of the
junior silver shares.
That is proper — even the
SILJ ETF
moved to a crucial resistance degree the place earlier medium-term
rallies ended.
That is the place the rally led to 2016, and that is the place it led to
2021. The historical past rhymes — silver topped at these ranges so
— except we see a confirmed breakout — we’re prone to
see one other slide sooner quite than later.
Particularly that we already noticed a sudden enhance in quantity ranges
— precisely what confirmed the top of the rally in 2021. When
you consider it, it makes excellent sense. Individuals’s feelings transfer
to excessive ranges at market tops, and that is additionally when individuals are
most motivated to purchase — that is what the massive quantity
represents.
If we noticed one thing like that in silver junior miners, we’d
shrug it off. However we see one thing like this in GDX, GDXJ, and even
within the XAU Index — proxy for each: gold shares and silver
shares.
On this case, miners are testing their all-time 2011 excessive. The XAU
Index was simply above this degree, after which it moved again under it.
There is a identify of this sort of motion — it is invalidation, and
it is a promote sign.
Curiously, the 2011 high was a breakout above the 2008 high, which
was invalidated after which adopted by an enormous decline within the following
months and years.
Once more, is that this time totally different? Positive,
some miners have bullish potential
(and a few the other), however total, we’re on the identical worth ranges
— at a super-strong, long-term resistance.
If the state of affairs is certainly totally different, then why are we seeing
power in miners vs. gold after a rally — one thing that we
noticed proper on the 2011 high?
And why is gold already breaking decrease?
Exactly, gold simply verified the breakdown under its rising, thick
help line by shifting again to it after which decrease once more. Again in
late-July, gold futures had been unable to substantiate this breakdown, however
now it is the other — we simply received this vital promote
sign.
In the present day will — most definitely — be the third consecutive
day by day shut under this line, which can totally verify the breakdown.
Clearly, that is bearish.
After an even bigger decline,
there is perhaps a possibility to go lengthy gold , however we’re not there but, in my opinion.
The USD Index continues to do nothing, however that nothing has a
highly effective bullish bias.
The reason being that the USD Index is after a medium-term breakout,
and the final month of buying and selling is a post-breakout consolidation. The
rising short-term help line held, and proper now the USDX is after
a short-term breakout above its declining crimson resistance line.
All which means the USD Index is able to transfer larger —
seemingly a lot larger in tune with its constructive fundamentals (tariffs
are bullish for the U.S. greenback). This could seemingly function the
lacking set off for the declines within the valuable metals sector.
Please be aware that copper is already declining — in tune with
my yesterday’s feedback :
The chart above contains a small breakdown in copper. Insignificant?
Maybe, but it surely’s nonetheless a breakdown that we see after three different
makes an attempt to maneuver under this line. The state of affairs is already totally different
right here.
Why would this short-term breakdown be vital?
As a result of that is the breakdown from the flag sample that was
preceded by an unlimited short-term slide.
The strikes following flag patterns are usually just like the strikes
that preceded it. And the massive strikes in copper are usually aligned
with massive strikes within the valuable metals market. Sure, the late-July
slide was tariff-news-based, so it isn’t that odd that gold, silver,
and miners shrugged it off, nevertheless, if we now see one other slide and
it is primarily based on technical causes (thus, it actually represents market’s
emotional state), the chances are that different markets would even be
affected.
All in all, it appears that evidently the valuable metals market is about to get
the spark triggering its decline any day now. Miners are at crucial
crossroads (and so is the inventory market as
Inna Rosputnia explains) and given the best way they carried out just lately relative to gold (simply
like at their 2011 high) and given the breakdowns in gold, copper,
and platinum, it appears to be like like we cannot have to attend too lengthy.
In different phrases,
my gold worth forecast for August 2025
stays bearish.
Thanks for studying at the moment’s evaluation — I respect that you simply
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Thanks.
Przemyslaw Ok. Radomski, CFA
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