Special SKI Report #228
Gold Stock Bull Intact But Threatened

Jeffrey M. Kern, Ph.D.
Email: jeff@skigoldstocks.com
USERX | historicals
Written Sunday Nov 17, 2019
Published Nov 18, 2019

Current USERX price = 8.70, Down 14 cents (1.6%) since the last report 3 weeks ago.

Introduction (repeated from prior Reports):

The SKI indices contain short-term (16-20 trading days), intermediate-term (35-39 trading days), and long-term (92-96 trading days) indices. A more comprehensive description of these mathematical indices and their history is found here. Basically, the indices compare today's price to prices from a specified prior time period. The name of the index specifies the time period (e.g., 92-96 index = compare today's price to prices from 96, 95, 94, 93, and 92 trading days earlier). Although I use the oldest gold mutual fund, USERX, for analyses, the predictions are applicable to the broad precious metals' market. I do not recommend or analyze specific stocks, but my subscribers from around the world regularly discuss individual issues on our Forum. In addition to the truly unique SKI indices, I also use "run patterns" to guesstimate turning points in the precious metals' market. A "run" refers to a pattern of daily up and down market closing prices. If the market has 3 consecutive days of higher closing prices, the run is "3 up". If prices then decline for 2 consecutive days, the run becomes "3 up and 2 down". If prices then close higher the next day, the run changes to "2 down and 1 up". Some people have referred to run patterns as "worms". A run pattern is only completed after the direction of closing prices has changed. I have compiled a listing of every run pattern that has ever occurred and generated probabilities that the end of the run marks a high or a low, moderated by the indices themselves.

New Material

The last SKI Report, written on Sunday, 10/27/19, described how the SKI indices on USERX (and the HUI, almost simultaneously) continued to mark the technical spots. The SKI-defined bull market (based upon master 92-96 index and 221 index buy signals) from June was intact. More importantly, that Update emphasized the boldfaced prediction that the 16-20 index’s buy signal (that occur on declines) had generated on “10/15/19 for execution the next day. This buy signal was historically and SKI-theoretically ‘supposed to’ mark the final corrective low within an on-going bull market”.That low was at USERX 8.30 (HUI 199.12). The Update also boldfaced that the gold stocks should continue to rise in the short-term to a 16-20 index sell signal and then continue higher to another 35-39 index buy signal (above the prices from 35-39 trading days earlier).

That’s what happened. USERX (and the HUI) rose to a 35-39 index buy signal that generated on the exact high of 9.10 on 11/01/19, executing one day later. That turned out to be another HIGH. The indices had once again marked the exact “technical spot” to within one trading day.Here’s a HUI chart showing the index signals over the past two months of decline/”correction”:

https://imagizer.imageshack.com/img922/8563/fb4ZfT.jpg (click the image to enlarge it).

Jeff thought that the 11/01/19 35-39 index signal would finally be intermediate-term (multi-month) BULLISH because a bull market MUST eventually generate a 35-39 index buy signal AND keep rising. I was wrong. The gold stocks declined into the above chart’s 35-39 index sell signal that marked ths past Monday-Tuesday (11/11/19-11/12/19) as the next quick “technical spot". Note that 11/11/19 was the closing low for the gold stocks and then Tuesday manifested a new intra-day low with a traditionally bullish “reversal” into a higher close.

Now, the next index signal needs to be a 3rd 35-39 index buy signal. And this next one needs to yield a continuing rise. USERX needs to get/stay above the following prices to generate the index’s next buy signal during this coming week:

USERX and the HUI HAVE remained above their 10/15/19 lows, as predicted even though GDX and Gold made a slight NEW low on last week’s 35-39 index signal. But the bull market is being threatened as TIME is running out for the master 92-96 index. Look at the prices from 92-96 trading days ago. They are rising. The continuing SKI-bull market needs for USERX to remain ABOVE those rising prices from 92-96 trading days earlier. The bull needs USERX (and HUI) to generate the new 35-39 index buy signal soon and to be at least 4% higher (from today’s price) in 7-11 trading days to stay above the prices from 92-96 trading days earlier… Seriously.

Best Wishes, Jeff

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