The BULL MARKET in gold is back, reckons Dr. Steve Sjuggerud, writing in his Daily Wealth email.

Now is the perfect moment to Buy Gold. Sentiment is still negative; indeed, a growing section of the investment world hates gold. And we have a hint of an uptrend.

This is exactly what we wait for.
 
In short, things are getting “less bad” in gold. Based on history, I believe we could see enormous gains over the next few months. And our True Wealth Systems computers tell us it’s time to Buy Gold.
 
As my True Wealth Systems subscribers know, we track gold two ways. Our first “Gold in Currencies” system tests gold versus four of the major world currencies. The idea is simple. We want to own gold in a bull market. But what is a gold bull market? 

You might hear people say, “It’s not a bull market in gold… It’s simply a bear market in the Dollar.” You see, if the US Dollar is crashing against other currencies, it’s likely also going down in terms of gold. So it looks like gold is in a bull market. But what if gold is falling in terms of the Euro or Yen while it’s rising against the Dollar? That’s not a gold bull market.

So what is a bull market in gold? 
 
One simple definition is: When gold is going up in terms of all the world’s most important currencies, it’s a bull market in gold. 
 
We used this definition to come up with a simple system for gold. We tested the idea on four major currencies – the US Dollar, Euro, British Pound, and Japanese Yen.

If the average price of gold is up in all four currencies versus the previous month…the Buy Gold. Repeat the next month. That’s it.
 
I know it sounds too simple, but it works. We want to own gold when this system says “buy”. We’ve tested the idea on 40-plus years of data. The results are astonishing.

Take a look at this chart from the most recent True Wealth Systems…

 How to Buy Dips and Sell Rips in Gold Using Cycle Analysis

Gold and stock market forecaster have been using cycles in price that repeat every certain amount of trading days to help them spot key reversal areas in the financial market. Almost everything in life seems to go in cycles and commodity prices and the stock market are no different.

As we all know the market is very difficult to forecast when using only one set of analysis like cycles. Analyzing price action, volume, market sentiment, market breadth, trends and inter-market analysis are the other key areas which one must understand before they can be in the zone (ZEN) with the financial market and properly forecast future prices.

This report will show you just how well cycles work if applied and traded properly.

How to Buy Dips and Sell Rips in Gold Using Cycle Analysis

The chart below is of gold and shows its short term trading cycles. I will admit this chart is hard on the eyes and as ugly as they get to bear with me.

Three different cycles have been applied to the chart using a short, intermediate and long term cycle wave length. The general idea here is that you want to trade with the underlying trend, then use these short term cycles to profit from weekly price swings.

Gold has been in a down trend for a year so the focus should be on shorting the bounces. Focusing on selling short gold during a time with 2 or more cycles are topping as you stand a great chance of the price moving in your favor within 1-3 days.

Once the price starts to move in your favor you want to scalp to profits once the short term (green) cycle drops near a reversal level. Once this takes place I always tighten my stops to breakeven, lock in some profits and continue to wait for another cycle to reach the bottom at which point I take more profit off the table and tighten my protective stop once again.

As you can see this is not the perfect system but it makes money, and if you apply more analysis to the market you can lock in more of these moves using intraday charts, volume, and sentiment levels.

How to Find Market Cycles

You must have an analysis tool that can read the market and find cycles within it. Once you know how many days the most frequent cycles are occurring you can then use a custom cycle indicator to overlay them on the charts as seen in the gold chart above. The visual overlay is the key to spotting market reversals and areas to add to a position or trim profits. Look at the chart below for a visual of how I find my cycles.

Gold Cycle Forecast Conclusion:

In short, gold overall remains in a down trend. But from looking at the gold chart and its short term cycles I have a feeling we will be seeing price trade sideways this week and a bounce next week.

The next week will be very interesting as these cycles will actually give us an early warning if the overall gold market is about to bounce or sell off. The question is what the cycles do in the next few days while gold flirts with support…

It does take some time/experience to read the cycles and get a feel for how they move so don’t worry about it if you don’t fully grasp the idea from this short article. Find out more on cycles and trading at www.GoldAndOilGuy.com

Chris Vermeulen

Tags: Gold Forecast, market forecast, Market Forecast Cycles, Market Forecast Indicator

In researching past equity bull markets, we’ve found numerous similarities between all. Each bull market has three clearly defined phases. The last phase of each bull market is driven by valuation expansion which is made possible through the wall of worry phase in which valuations contract and the weak hands give way to the strong hands. Though the gold stocks may have already bottomed, plenty of fear and despondency persists. However, when one compares the present bull market in the gold stocks to five previous equity bull markets, they should realize that things are on par with the past and the gold stocks are right on track.

The Barron’s Gold Mining index surged from 1960 to 1967. Its wall of worry period lasted from 1968 to the end of 1972. Note that at a bottom in late 1971, the market had made no progress over a six year period. Nevertheless, the gold stocks absolutely exploded thereafter, more than four-fold in only two years. After one final correction from 1974 to 1976, the sector surged higher once again, advancing more than six-fold in four years. We could not find valuation data.

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