Gold Is Breaking Out -- Will Gold Miners Follow?

Gold is breaking out today. It's a safe-haven bid -- Treasuries are down in yield and up in price. The yellow metal brushed a session high of $1371.30. We'll need a few more days of closing above $1,360 to confirm it. It would also help if gold miners broke out. As of now, they're lagging. Take a look at the Market Vectors Junior Gold Miners (GDXJ) and you'll see what I mean ...

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Looking at the chart, you can see that the Market Vectors Junior Gold Miners ETF (GDXJ consolidated since last month. Now, it has popped above that short-term downtrend. I’ve put a momentum indicator on the bottom of the chart called “MACD” – it shows that the short-term trend remains bearish.

The GDXJ could continue to break out. On the other hand, it could also head down to test support.  There are a number of support levels, but the one just above $38 is most obvious.

While GDXJ has lagged gold, I don't think it would move independently of gold.  Therefore, higher gold prices will likely push the GDXJ higher.  If gold goes lower, then maybe we'll see the GDXJ test that support.

A deeper pullback wouldn't be a bad development – it just means we'd get better prices on potential picks. 

And while the broad index is underperforming, there are individual stocks that are performing quite well. I recommended one of them this morning in Gold & Resource Trader.

Good luck and good trades, whatever you buy.