The Canadian Technician

Copper, Metals, Gold or Planes/trains/Autos

Greg Schnell

Greg Schnell

Chief Technical Analyst, Osprey Strategic

Copper is unrepentent in leading the materials sector.

I have put $Copper on this chart, and the TSX Metals and Mining index.

While Canadian stock investors don't push  the worlds markets around, it would appear that the copper price pushes all of the metals/mining materials. Copper in Black, the mining index in red.

Copper  VS.TSX Metals Mining

This correlation is not very difficult to see and if you are optimistic about Gold, keep watching Copper.

 

Here's why:

Copper with gold stocks

While the correlation is not quite as tight, it is still pretty clear.

The Gold Stocks currently have a megaphone pattern. This pattern is considered a megaphone top usually. ( See the $SPX for another example of a Megaphone top from January to April 2011)

One of the things a megaphone top is demonstrating (as a big picture) is the intermediate trend is weakening as the stocks make higher highs and lower lows, until it finally loses support and breaks down.

I have posted the GDX as a separate chart at the very bottom.

 

To Quote Alexander Elder: "A successful trader must identify his fantasies, and get rid of them"

 

To good trading,

 

Greg Schnell CMT

Greg Schnell
About the author: , CMT, MFTA is Chief Technical Analyst at Osprey Strategic specializing in intermarket and commodities analysis. He is also the co-author of Stock Charts For Dummies (Wiley, 2018). Based in Calgary, Greg is a board member of the Canadian Society of Technical Analysts (CSTA) and the chairman of the CSTA Calgary chapter. He is an active member of both the CMT Association and the International Federation of Technical Analysts (IFTA). Learn More