Special SKI Report #241
Gold Stock Timing Update

Jeffrey M. Kern, Ph.D.
Email: jeff@skigoldstocks.com
USERX | historicals
Written Sunday Aug 23, 2020
Published Aug 24, 2020

Current USERX price = 13.65, Down only 35 cents (2.5%) since the last report 3 weeks ago.

Introduction (repeated from prior Reports):

The SKI indices contain short-term (16-20 trading days), intermediate-term (35-39 trading days), and long-term (92-96 trading days) indices. A more comprehensive description of these mathematical indices and their history is found here. Basically, the indices compare today's price to prices from a specified prior time period. The name of the index specifies the time period (e.g., 92-96 index = compare today's price to prices from 96, 95, 94, 93, and 92 trading days earlier). Although I use the oldest gold mutual fund, USERX, for analyses, the predictions are applicable to the broad precious metals' market. I do not recommend or analyze specific stocks, but my subscribers from around the world regularly discuss individual issues on our Forum. In addition to the truly unique SKI indices, I also use "run patterns" to guesstimate turning points in the precious metals' market. A "run" refers to a pattern of daily up and down market closing prices. If the market has 3 consecutive days of higher closing prices, the run is "3 up". If prices then decline for 2 consecutive days, the run becomes "3 up and 2 down". If prices then close higher the next day, the run changes to "2 down and 1 up". Some people have referred to run patterns as "worms". A run pattern is only completed after the direction of closing prices has changed. I have compiled a listing of every run pattern that has ever occurred and generated probabilities that the end of the run marks a high or a low, moderated by the indices themselves.

New Material

The last SKI Report, written on 8/02/20, concluded that “The next multi-week issue is whether last Monday (7/27/20) marked a high at USERX 14.12 to be followed by the several-week (3-4 week) decline into the next ‘SKI-disciplined’ 16-20 index supportive buy signal”. That report also simply concluded that “we ‘know’ with 100% certainty that such a decline will eventually occur. What we do not “know” is WHEN such a decline will occur and that is obviously what matters most over the short-term to intermediate-term. It’s all stretched/overbought, and there’s last Monday’s bearish run pattern, but the primary recommendation continues to be to “ride the bull” and buy yet more when (not “if”) the next corrective decline occurs into a second 16-20 index buy signal”.

Jeff can make this a rather brief new Report.

After that last Report, the gold stocks manifested a second bearish 1 Down and 2 Up run pattern into 8/05/20 at a new high for gold and for USERX at 14.76. But that was it and the corrective decline began.

The harsh 4-day decline into 8/11/20 almost formed a highly bearish Major Top Death Run. That would have completed on 8/12/20 if the gold stocks had declined for a 5th consecutive day on a decline of 10+%. The 4-day decline had already taken USERX down over 11%. But they rose (barely) on 8/12/20 and avoided completing a major topping pattern. That was actually a very important SKI-technical day.

The decline hit/touched the 16-20 index support on 8/12/20. As per the Report 3 weeks ago, that did act as support and has been the low-to-date at USERX 13.04-13.13. You can see the 4-day decline to hit the 16-20 index on the following SKI-chart as of that weekend. The black dots are the USERX price. The blue line is the 16-20 index. So USERX fell to hit/touch the index support line, but after that decline, the rebound on the “Buffet-rally news” into last Monday (8/17/20) at USERX 14.29 prevented or delayed an actual 16-20 index buy signal by barely staying above the index line. The 16-20 index is an oversold contrarian index that buys as the gold stocks drop below the index line.

Since the March 2020 low and the first corrective decline into a 16-20 index buy signal on 6/12/20-6/15/20, I’ve written that the next SKI-disciplined buy-point would be on the next decline into a USERX 16-20 index buy signal.

That index signal is VERY close to generating. A rise that continues to avoid the buy signal should yield an outrageous “super-bull”, but that would be extraordinary. Otherwise, a high-probability buying opportunity is very close.

Best Wishes, Jeff

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Jeffrey M. Kern,Ph.D., is an academic psychologist with a specialty in the measurement and prediction of human behavior. The communications provided are for informational purposes only and are not intended to be investment advice or recommendations for specific investment decisions. Dr. Kern is not a registered investment advisor, but is registered as a commodity trading advisor (CTA). The information provided is considered accurate, but cannot be guaranteed. Investments/trading in narrow market segments or gold futures is for individuals willing to accept a higher level of risk for the opportunity of greater returns. Past performance is no guarantee of future performance. His website is www.skigoldstocks.com.

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