Who Is Lying: Gold Or The Dow Index?

Thursday, July 18, 2019

Both Gold and the Dow Index have in recent times made significant bull market signals.

The Dow in 2016 when it broke out of a rising resistance line:

Dow in 2016

The breakout was 17 years after the Dow/Gold Ratio peak, just like it did in 1982. Also, the breakout came a few years after a significant Gold peak, again just like the 70s/80s pattern depicted in the chart above.

Gold on the other hand signaled a new bull market this year when it crossed a key level:

Since 2011 it has been forming a similar pattern to one of the early 80s. However, it signaled a new bull market when it diverged from the 80s (bear pattern) by breaking higher than point 5.

There is a problem however. One of them appears to be “lying.” There is no way that both of these can be starting a new bull market. Yes, they might be able to run up together for a while, but at some point there will be major divergence.

I have written about why this is the case, on numerous occasions (recently here).

I guess we will find out soon enough who is lying? A simple but diligent application of the buy low sell high principle could probably help making this decision.

Since the question is (put in another way): who is starting a new bull market? Is it the Dow that is trading at more than 27 times its last significant high (1973 high: about $1000), or is it gold that is trading at less than  its 2011 high and trading at less than double of its 1980 high (around $850)?

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Hubert Moolman is a self-taught gold and silver analyst who writes a precious metals newsletter specializing in fractal chart analysis and monetary fundamentals (especially gold and silver). He has a background as a Chartered Accountant, and managed his own firm for 9 years. He also has a website that publishes educational articles on gold, silver and the dangers of fiat money.