Gold? Silver Stocks? Which Is the First Domino to Fall?
August 19, 2025 ( Newswire) The markets did little
yesterday, but it doesn’t mean that we have no signals right now.
Conversely, there are plenty.
I covered many of them in my previous
Gold Trading Alerts, and today, I’d like to focus on the resistance levels that were
just reached not only in GDX and GDXJ, but also in other proxies for
mining stocks — even in case of the
junior silver stocks.
That’s right — even the
SILJ ETF
moved to a critical resistance level where previous medium-term
rallies ended.
That’s where the rally ended in 2016, and that’s where it ended in
2021. The history rhymes — silver topped at these levels so
— unless we see a confirmed breakout — we’re likely to
see another slide sooner rather than later.
Especially that we already saw a sudden increase in volume levels
— exactly what confirmed the end of the rally in 2021. When
you think about it, it makes perfect sense. People’s emotions move
to extreme levels at market tops, and that’s also when people are
most motivated to buy — that’s what the huge volume
represents.
If we saw something like that in silver junior miners, we might
shrug it off. But we see something like this in GDX, GDXJ, and even
in the XAU Index — proxy for both: gold stocks and silver
stocks.
In this case, miners are testing their all-time 2011 high. The XAU
Index was just above this level, and then it moved back below it.
There’s a name of this kind of action — it’s invalidation, and
it’s a sell signal.
Interestingly, the 2011 top was a breakout above the 2008 top, which
was invalidated and then followed by a huge decline in the following
months and years.
Again, is this time different? Sure,
some miners have bullish potential
(and some the opposite), but overall, we’re at the same price levels
— at a super-strong, long-term resistance.
If the situation is indeed different, then why are we seeing
strength in miners vs. gold after a rally — something that we
saw right at the 2011 top?
And why is gold already breaking lower?
Precisely, gold just verified the breakdown below its rising, thick
support line by moving back to it and then lower again. Back in
late-July, gold futures were unable to confirm this breakdown, but
now it’s the opposite — we just got this important sell
signal.
Today will — most likely — be the third consecutive
daily close below this line, which will fully confirm the breakdown.
Obviously, that’s bearish.
After a bigger decline,
there might be an opportunity to go long gold , but we’re not there yet, in my view.
The USD Index continues to do nothing, but that nothing has a
powerful bullish bias.
The reason is that the USD Index is after a medium-term breakout,
and the last month of trading is a post-breakout consolidation. The
rising short-term support line held, and right now the USDX is after
a short-term breakout above its declining red resistance line.
All this means that the USD Index is ready to move higher —
likely much higher in tune with its positive fundamentals (tariffs
are bullish for the U.S. dollar). This would likely serve as the
missing trigger for the declines in the precious metals sector.
Please note that copper is already declining — in tune with
my yesterday’s comments :
The chart above features a small breakdown in copper. Insignificant?
Perhaps, but it’s still a breakdown that we see after three other
attempts to move below this line. The situation is already different
here.
Why would this short-term breakdown be important?
Because this is the breakdown from the flag pattern that was
preceded by an enormous short-term slide.
The moves following flag patterns tend to be similar to the moves
that preceded it. And the big moves in copper tend to be aligned
with big moves in the precious metals market. Yes, the late-July
slide was tariff-news-based, so it’s not that odd that gold, silver,
and miners shrugged it off, however, if we now see another slide and
it’s based on technical reasons (thus, it truly represents market’s
emotional state), the odds are that other markets would also be
affected.
All in all, it seems that the precious metals market is about to get
the spark triggering its decline any day now. Miners are at critical
crossroads (and so is the stock market as
Inna Rosputnia explains) and given the way they performed recently relative to gold (just
like at their 2011 top) and given the breakdowns in gold, copper,
and platinum, it looks like we won’t have to wait too long.
In other words,
my gold price forecast for August 2025
remains bearish.
Thank you for reading today’s analysis — I appreciate that you
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Przemyslaw K. Radomski, CFA
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