GOLD OUTLOOK
by Sol Palha
August 20, 2006
Gold like the
sun, which melts wax, but hardens clay, expands great souls.
Antoine Rivarol 1753-1801, French Journalist, Epigrammatist

Gold produced
5 uptrend lines on this 6 year chart and if you zoom in you
could still squeeze in one more. Suffice to say such a
serious move up usually is followed with an equally serious
move down. What’s muting this correction to a large degree
is the geopolitical tension plaguing the globe. However Gold
did mount a rather rapid correction in a relatively short
period of time and that is a somewhat positive factor.
We believe this new leg up that just started is a fake leg
up that will most likely produce another short correction
and most likely an even better buying opportunity. Given the
current tensions in the world we believe that its rather
unlikely gold will pull back all the way down to the main up
trend line, hence it makes sense to start seriously adding
to positions if Gold trades close to the second main up
trend line. This would correspond to a price in the 470-510
ranges. If it happens to dip all the way down to the main up
trend line then Gold will fall into the screaming buy
category. It’s not often that we get such deals;
Palladium provided us with such a buy early last year.
Note that the
RSI flashed a negative divergence on this long term cycle
chart; it did not validate the new high in gold and the RSI
index actually put in a new high after Gold started to
correct.
Conclusion
Gold has now
at least entered into the minimum oversold range of several
of our indicators; hence those who have no positions at all
can start to nibble. If it does pull back all the way to the
main up trend line look at it as a free gift from heaven and
load up fast this anomaly will not last long. The last time
Gold was a major buy was between 2002 to early 2003 and
during this time we were strongly pounding the table on
Gold. We have still not sold our Gold bullion positions that
were taken back in 2002. However after being Neutral on Gold
for quite sometime we are now ready to state at leas that it
makes sense to start initiating positions if you have none.
In the follow up article we will post our long term targets
on Gold. Silver is another metal that looks very good and we
will review this in a separate article; on a percentage
basis the gains here will dwarf those of Gold. There is yet
another metal that looks very interesting and if we have
time we will review this metal too.
Our previous
long term targets on the Dow and Oil were both hit; oil
actually surpassed our initial targets. However when we
first put those targets out a lot of individuals thought we
had lost our mind but now we see many easily accepting
targets as high as 120 dollars.
The Looming Energy Crisis &
Its Effect On Gold
in Dec 2003 we predicted Oil would trade past 48 dollars
If we
can hold in the 8,800 to 9,000 range, then the outcome looks
rather interesting. Esoteric cycle analysis (our proprietary
indicator at the Tactical Investor) is basically suggesting
the following targets if we can hold the above ranges:
1st target will be a break of the Dow over the 10,000 range
2nd target 10,500
3rd target 11,400
Extreme target 11, 7000
These
targets were issued back in Nov 2003.
Full Article
Final Note
Given the huge
uncertainty on the Geopolitical frontier and the fact that
Gold has entered into the oversold ranges of our indicators
it make sense to start nibbling now.
We have no
organ at all for knowledge, for ''truth'': we ''know'' (or
believe or imagine) precisely as much as may be useful in
the interest of the human herd, the species: and even what
is here called ''usefulness'' is in the end only a belief,
something imagined and perhaps precisely that most fatal
piece of stupidity by which we shall one day perish.
Friedrich Nietzsche
1844-1900, German Philosopher |