The Light At The End Of The HUI

I’m going to use this long-term weekly chart for the HUI as a proxy for the other PM stock indexes. This chart also shows you why I’ve remained very cautious on any PM stock rally.

What we know for sure is that the HUI rallied strongly out of its January 2016 low to the August 2016 high which was very impressive. At the time it looked like the initial impulse move in a brand new bull market which was a welcomed sight after 5 years of bear market price action. At the 2016 top is where we should have expected some type of consolidation pattern to start building out to consolidate that massive gain, but what we got is not what we wanted to see.

I remember taking some flack from several newsletter writers when I posted a possible H&S top in place. I was told that everyone and their brother could see that H&S top so it would fail, the new bull market was born and that was that. From my perspective that H&S top formed exactly where one would expect to see a reversal pattern form which is at the end of a big move. If the bull market was truly underway the HUI should have started to chop sideways creating a consolidation pattern instead of a reversal pattern.

After the neckline gave way there was a 5 week backtest to the underside of the neckline that confirmed for me the H&S top was valid and correct. After the backtest was complete the first impulse leg down took about 8 weeks to complete. That low is marked by reversal point #1 at the beginning of our current triangle trading range. Note how the neckline also held resistance on the second backtest at reversal point #2 again adding more confirmation the neckline was hot and to be respected.

Another thing we know for sure is that the HUI has been chopping sideways for over a year now consolidating that first impulse leg down. The markets usually don’t make it easy to see the real picture until well after the fact. As you can see our current one year triangle had a false breakout below the bottom rail and then a rally back into the triangle which at the time negated the breakout to the downside. Discipline dictates that you have to respect the fact that when the price action closed back inside the triangle that we had a false breakout and to start looking at the top rail for resistance.

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Author: Travis Esquivel

Travis Esquivel is an engineer, passionate soccer player and full-time dad. He enjoys writing about innovation and technology from time to time.

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