With the news on geopolitical escalation, soft versus hard landing, disinflation versus reinflation, growth versus value, and credit default versus available disposable income, gold and silver are even more interesting now.

Gold’s behavior has been more of sell strength and buy weakness for some time. What has changed is that the swings from lows to highs have narrowed since mid-December. Look at October 2023, when gold’s price action brought out the bears. (Not us, we bought on the gap up.) The price ran from $1876 an ounce in futures, or 172 in the ETF (GLD), to peak at $2152 in futures by December 4th. GLD went to around 193.

Since then, gold has ranged between $1987 and $2105. More importantly, if this past week was another low at $2020, then we can see that since last October, the lows are higher, and the ranges are narrower. Plus, momentum has improved, while it continues to remain an underperformer to the S&P 500.

Next direction should resolve very soon.

On January 5th, I wrote a Daily called “Super Cycles Do Not Just Fade Away”. The most burning question we get lately is “How will we know when inflation returns?” Our answers:

The Dollar does something more dramatic.Silver starts to outperform gold.Sugar (perfect example of a super cycle type volatility) heads back over 22 cents.

Interestingly, none of these scenarios have happened yet. However, silver in and of itself, looks very appealing.

Silver futures have been experiencing narrower ranges as well.

With higher lows since October, the recent support at $22.50 an ounce, if holds, could mean this week is the week we start to see this metal shine. A move above the 2 moving averages would be a start. In cash, a breakout over $24 should do it. In the ETF, that would happen over 21.75.

In the futures, the spot price had a mean reversion in momentum. Should silver get this follow through, the next big event will be if it begins to outperform gold. Then we’ll know that this move in gold is not just a flight to safety, but, very possibly, that super cycle might be starting even a bit earlier than we thought.

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Mish in the Media

Mish gives you a thorough outlook on which areas to invest in for 2024 in just four and half minutes on CMC Markets.

Mish offers her thoughts on a number of commodities ahead of the US CPI data announcement in this appearance on CMC Markets.

In this video from CMC Markets, Mish continues with her analysis on gold, oil and gas, this time adding the dollar/yen currency pair and her outlook on the dollar longer term.

Mish talks how the January effect will reveal itself and her focus on the vanity trade in this appearance on Business First AM.

Mish covers oil, gold, natural gas, silver and sugar, plus teaches you how to use charts to determine short-term trading strategies in this video from CMC Markets.

Mish and Maggie Lake discuss inflation (given the wage component in the payroll report), Bitcoin (given the looming deadline for ETF news), the market outlook, small caps, and emerging markets on this video from Real Vision.

Mish covers war, energy, food and a pick of the day on Business First AM.

On the Tuesday, January 2 edition of StockCharts TV’s The Final Bar, Mish (starting at 22:21) talks small caps, retail, junk, and why all three matter in 2024 a lot.

In this appearance on BNN Bloomberg, Mish talks a particularly interesting chart, plus other places to invest in 2024.

In this appearance on Fox Business’ Making Money with Charles Payne, Mish talks with Cheryl Casone about Bitcoin’s volatility and why EVs may not be such a great place to invest in right now.

Recorded on December 28, Mish talks about themes for 2024 to look for, and tells you where to focus, what to buy, and what to avoid depending on economic and market conditions on Singapore Breakfast Bites.

Mish sits down with 2 other market experts to help you prepare for 2024 with predictions, picks, and technical analysis in StockCharts TV’s Charting Forward special.

Coming Up:

January 15: StockCharts TV, January Calendar Ranges

January 22: Your Daily Five, StockCharts TV

January 24: Yahoo! Finance

Weekly: Business First AM, CMC Markets

ETF Summary

S&P 500 (SPY): 480 all-time highs, 460 underlying support.Russell 2000 (IWM): 195 pivotal, 180 major support.Dow (DIA): Needs to hold 370.Nasdaq (QQQ): 408 now the immediate pivotal number.Regional banks (KRE): 50 support, 55 resistance.Semiconductors (SMH): 170 cleared and now must hold.Transportation (IYT): Needs to hold 250.Biotechnology (IBB): 135 pivotal support.Retail (XRT): Not a happy performance in retail Friday-to maintain a bullish stance this should hold 65 and get back over 70.00.

Mish Schneider

MarketGauge.com

Director of Trading Research and Education