GOLD Is GLEAMING, SILVER is SHINING         (C) 2005 -  William Schmidt, Ph.D.    11/29/2005 Gold has just risen over $500 an ounce.  This is considered an important psychological breakout.  The Gold Stock Index (XAU) is one way investors can play their sense of international uncertainty and the long-term double whammy on the US dollar from the record high US Treasury deficit and the massive US Trade Imbalance that grows month after month.  Silver has just surpassed $8.00 for the first time in more than 20 years.  Some comments elsewhere. Tiger Users should look at the longest term charts available.  These are easily found on YAHOO.  Linked here are the Yahoo charts of NEM, PAAS and SSRI.  They show that significant price breakouts are at hand. They are quite bullish.  Here are some others' comments on these stocks. Investors should also use the TigerSoft weekly and daily charts. These show price trends, price breakouts, Big Money Accumulation (This is a Tiger invention dating back to 1981.) and Relative Strength. Here we compare three stocks, NEM (Newmont Mining - the world's largest gold producer, PAAS (Pan American Silver) and SSRI (Silver Stand Res. )  with the XAU (Gold Stock Index).  Look also for the automatically produced red Buys and Sells arrows.  These show you Buys and Sells using a process that finds the best trading system from over 60 for the period shown.  These should help investors better time their purchases and sales, whether it be stocks, mutual funds, options, futures, currencies or commodities. We are especially interested in silver because it ran to more than $40 an ounce in 1980 as a result of a short squeeze promoted by Bunker Hunt from Texas.  Silver has just broken above $8.00 an ounce.  Compare its action now with what happened in the 1978-1980 period.

All three stocks, NEM, PAAS and SSRI are in strong uptrends, as judged from the weekly charts.  They each show high levels (lots of blue) Big Money Accumulation.   And they have flat-topped price patterns.  These are much more likely to lead to price breakouts than reversals. PAAS has already scored a price breakout to a new high on its weekly chart.  It should be bought.   The red arrows show the optimized Buy and Sell signals for each chart.  Each are on BUYS.

Deciding exactly when to buy such stocks can be done using TigerSoft's automatic Buy and Sell Signals on the daily charts.  The daily charts shown here also show how these stocks' performance compares with the XAU (Gold Stock Index).  It can be seen below that NEM is lagging.  The quotient of the NEM's closes divided by XAU's closing prices for the last year shows a downtrend.  It would seem a better idea to buy the Gold Stock Index -XAU, than NEM at this time.

PAAS has already made a price breakout.  It is on a Red Sell.  Our software wants to buy the stock on the next small retreat.  The basis for the Red Sell is a very short-term Stochastic indicator.  Longer-term investors should probably just buy the stock.

SSRI  has also already made a price breakout when viewing its daily price action over the last year.  It is on a Red Sell.  Our software wants to buy the stock on the next small retreat.  The basis for the Red Sell is a short-term 10-day Stochastic indicator.  Longer-term investors should probably just buy the stock.   You can also see that the Quotient of its strength relative to the XAU has also achieved a bullish trend-break.

Investors who are concerned about prospective weakness in the dollar should look at our recent charts showing foreign currencies and closed end funds of foreign securities.