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VIDEOGold Bears Are Wrong, Smart Money Isn't Selling
Wait for a break of the May pivot, then buy into it instead of panic sell like most will invariably do.
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Last week I was told that we were going to see more gold weakness in the days ahead because big money had to sell their positions. Folks, smart big-money traders don’t sell into weakness. These kinds of investors don’t think like the typical retail investor who's forever trying to avoid drawdowns. Big-money investors take positions based on fundamentals and then continually buy dips until the fundamentals reverse. The fundamentals haven’t reversed for gold so I’m confident in saying that smart money isn’t selling its gold, it's using this dip to accumulate.
With that being said, there are times when big money will sell into the market and it's why technical analysis, as used by retail traders, often doesn’t work. They sell into the market to accumulate positions. Let me explain.
When a large fund wants to buy, it can’t just simply start buying stock like you or I would. Doing so would run the market up, causing it to fill at higher and higher prices. Unlike the average retail trader, smart money attempts to buy into weakness and sell into strength (buy low, sell high). In order to buy the kind of size it needs without moving the market against itself, a large trader needs very liquid conditions. Ask yourself, when do those kind of conditions exist? They happen when markets break technical levels.
If big money is selling it's because it's trying to push the market below a significant technical level so all the technicians will puke up their shares. By running an important technical level it can cause a ton of sell stops to activate, allowing it to accumulate a large position without moving the market against itself in the process. We saw this very thing happen in the oil market recently and also in February as gold bottomed.
(Today, in early afternoon trading, Iamgold (IAG) is down 5.2%, Buenaventura (BVN) has fallen 4.9%, and Newmont Mining (NEM) is down more than 5%. On track for its lowest closing price in 3.5 months, Goldcorp (GG) is also down more than 5%.)
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Technical traders wrongly assume these breaks are continuation patterns but the reality is that very often they're just smart money “playing” the technical crowd so they can enter large positions. The key to watch for is an immediate reversal of a technical break. When that happens you know there was someone in the market buying when everyone else was selling. Nine times out of 10 it was smart money.
At that moment everyone is jumping on the bear side for gold. Remember we saw this exact same sentiment in the stock market three weeks ago. I knew the bears were going to be wrong simply because the market was way too late in the intermediate cycle for there to be enough time left for a significant decline.
The gold bears are going to be wrong also and for the exact same reason. It's just too late in the intermediate cycle for there to be enough time left for anything other than a minor decline.
I'm now waiting and hoping for a break of the May pivot. I want to play that break, if it comes, like a smart money trader. That means I want to buy into the break instead of panic sell like most dumb money retail traders will invariably do.
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The reason, of course, is that gold is still in a secular bull market. In bull markets you buy dips.
Also, the dollar, with the break below 82 this morning, is starting to show signs that it's now in the clutches of the three-year cycle decline. Every Gold C-wave so far in this 10-year bull market has corresponded to a major leg down in the dollar. I'm confident this C-wave will inversely track the dollar’s move into that major cycle low due early next year.
Sentiment wise, gold has now reached levels more bearish than at the February bottom. That means gold is at risk of running out of sellers.
Finally, and most importantly, it's simply too late in the intermediate cycle for gold to have enough time for a significant drop. This is the 25th week of the cycle and the intermediate cycle rarely lasts more than 25 weeks. That puts the odds heavily in favor of a major bottom either sometime this week or next. And don't forget, gold is about to move into the strong demand season. Like clockwork, gold invariably puts in a major bottom in July or August before the run up into the strong fall season.
The bears are going to be wrong again.
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