business newsWill Gold Follow Gold Stocks Lower?
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NextBigTrade.com
Jun 20, 2011 11:15 am
A negative sign for gold: Price has been rising with falling open interest, which often signals a weakening market and goes along with the declining buying pressure in GLD.
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Gold stocks continued to lose ground last week and have now hit the same level they were at in September 2010. Gold, however, was marginally higher last week and is still holding above its May 2011 lows. The divergence between gold and gold stocks is clearly visible on the next chart:
I recently wrote a piece discussing gold and gold stock divergences over the past decade during this bull market in gold (see Gold and Gold Stock Divergences: Commonly Observed Phenomena Since 2002). Most often gold stocks diverge from gold when selling in the general stock market spills over into the gold stocks. Gold, however, doesn’t usually escape stock market sell-offs completely unharmed. It has tended to end up selling off as well, even though initially it might have held up while the stock market went lower.
Buying pressure as measured by on balance volume in the (GLD) ETF still hasn’t exceeded the April high. If this indicator fails to make a new high in the near term it’s less likely gold will as well.
Another negative sign for gold is that price has been rising with falling open interest. On the chart below you can see that since October 2010 the price of gold has risen while open interest has fallen. This typically signals a weakening market and goes along with the declining buying pressure in GLD.
I recently wrote a piece discussing gold and gold stock divergences over the past decade during this bull market in gold (see Gold and Gold Stock Divergences: Commonly Observed Phenomena Since 2002). Most often gold stocks diverge from gold when selling in the general stock market spills over into the gold stocks. Gold, however, doesn’t usually escape stock market sell-offs completely unharmed. It has tended to end up selling off as well, even though initially it might have held up while the stock market went lower.
Buying pressure as measured by on balance volume in the (GLD) ETF still hasn’t exceeded the April high. If this indicator fails to make a new high in the near term it’s less likely gold will as well.
Another negative sign for gold is that price has been rising with falling open interest. On the chart below you can see that since October 2010 the price of gold has risen while open interest has fallen. This typically signals a weakening market and goes along with the declining buying pressure in GLD.
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