Gold and Silver Current Thoughts 3-26-2015

From the Trading Desk

Unrest in the Middle East has caused crude oil to rally over 15% in the last five trading days.  A coalition of ten countries led by Saudi Arabia has launched air strikes in Yemen against Shia Houthi rebels to “defend the legitimate government” of President Abdrabbuh Mansour Hadi.  While Yemen is not a large oil producing country, the situation creates instability in the region as a whole.   Shia-dominated Iran has already demanded that Sunni-ruled Saudi Arabia immediately halt the air strikes as it is a violation of Yemen’s sovereignty.  The geopolitical instability in conjunction with crude oil running up has allowed gold to move higher this week and to break through previous psychological resistance at $1,200.

The combination of worse than expected US economic data and a broad US equity sell off has also helped buoy gold and silver over the past few days.  New orders for durable goods fell by 1.40% in February m/m after an increase of 2.00% in January m/m.  Gold has now traded higher in seven consecutive trading sessions and it appears that it is ready for a breather.  Strong selling capped the market at $1,220 and gold has retreated to hanging just above $1,200.  Silver has also retreated from its intraday highs and will look to hold above $17 as the session winds down.

My bullish stance on gold, silver and the miners was given a gift overnight with the Yemen situation mentioned above. In my opinion it was a good time to lighten up on the longs and hopefully you did so. All gold and silver did all day long was hit lower and lower prices and so did the mining ETFs. I said yesterday that gold may get to $1,225-$1,230 and while it still may do that, I would have to see it happen quickly. Still, reaching $1,220 wasn’t too bad of a move.

You might not have played a long in JDST at some point watching the price action but it wouldn’t have been that easy.

UWTI was up 25% pre-market and ended up 14.81% closing at 2.79. It has been up since the daily buy signal came in at 2.22. It would have been difficult to trade it or DWTI which tried to break out, but failed twice. On days where there is so much uncertainty, it is best to do a lot of watching. Which brings us to volatility plays.

After hitting a high of 14 a couple days ago, UVXY has had a nice run today but that might have been all it can muster. I would look to SVXY as long as their is no escalation of the situation in Yemen.

TNA opened down, fell lower and then turned green showing some strength for a rebound to continue. We were 8 points higher just a few days ago. Some are saying the market will continue to decline but this reversal to green today shows me that it still has some legs. If you were long TZA at 9.93 or 10.12 earlier in the week, then a move today to over 10.80 and then retreat may mean it’s time to sell. If you are going against the trend (long) then it makes more sense to lock in profit sooner.

RUSS gave us a move higher today with the turmoil going on in the Middle East. One could have jumped on it at the open and rode it up for a half a point as it lagged the rest of the market. From there it was flat the rest of the day. RUSS and RUSL have been trading up and down days with each other of late with neither one giving us a longer term trade. It will come at some point though.

The storage report for natural gas didn’t come in well for UGAZ today as it fell 6.67% to close at 2.38. DGAZ, which gave us a weekly buy signal at 6.66 closed at 7.41 and is still looking for a move past 7.68 and a possible run at 9.07. It may find resistance there at the 52 week high of 9.15.

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