We are now witnessing historic and unprecedented action in the war in the the gold market.

Jason Goepfert at SentimenTrader:  Gold stocks got his hard again on Friday. The most commonly-cited reason was fear of a looming rate hike, but that’s not necessarily a good reason given recent history…


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A Historic Sell-Off

The sell-off in gold and related stocks is now at historic proportions in terms of persistence and severity, which has led to rallies in the metal and related stocks virtually every time (see chart below).

KWN SentimenTrader I 11:7:2015

The biggest worry is that money managers are still too positive on gold’s prospects, unlike past lows when they were net short or nearly so (see chart below).

KWN SentimenTrader V 11:7:2015

Friday’s Gold Smash

Seemingly due to threats of a looming hike in interest rates, gold got slammed again on Friday.

As noted in the past couple of reports, we were already seeing a historic level of focused selling pressure. Never before had gold been down this many days over a three-week period (see chart below).

KWN SentimenTrader II 11:7:2015

With Friday’s down day, this was the 8th straight loss, marking the 7th such streak since 1975. As we can see from Table 1, three months later gold was higher every time (see table below).

KWN SentimenTrader VI

If the fear of a rate hike was the primary reason for the selling pressure, it may be short-term overdone. The Morgan Stanley estimate of months until the first rate hike just fell to 3.5 (see figure below).

KWN SentimenTrader III 11:7:2015

It fell to this low of a level twice so far this year, in early August and mid- September. Both coincided with lows in gold as it rallied over the next month.

The major input that traders use to trade gold stocks is the price of gold itself, of course. So the drop in gold has been devastating to these companies.

The 10-day rate of change in the HUI Gold Bugs index of gold stocks is now nearly -20%, one of its most extreme levels in the past three years (actually the past 20 years) (see chart below).

KWN SentimenTrader IV 11:7:2015

One odd development is how often gold stocks have moved counter to the price of gold in the past three months. There have been 9 days when gold stocks either rallied more than 2% on a day that gold fell, or they fell more than 2% on a day that gold rose (see first chart).

This happened three other times over a three-month period: 2001-01-11, 2002- 08-06 and 2008-10-30. Six months later, the HUI Gold Bugs index was higher by 48%, 28%, and 58%, respectively.

The biggest caveat here is that money managers are still long gold (Figure 5, chart 2 near top). They reduced positions quite a bit this week but remain near neutral levels at best. Previous lows in gold occurred when managers were nearly net short. This is a major negative and from our perspective the biggest reason not to overweight these stocks just yet, or at least know that there is a higher likelihood of short-term pain before the longer-term positives should take hold.” ***This commentary and charts are just a portion of one of the latest fantastic reports. To try a free 14-day trial of the internationally acclaimed work that Jason Goepfert produces at SentimenTrader simply CLICK HERE.

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