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Oil Rallies 14.4% as Silver Falls 6.4% My Market Outlook

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Finance

Finance-focused market outlook (Monday market moves)

Broad markets / risk

  • S&P 500: -1.6% for the week; lost the 20- and 50-day moving averages.
    • Bias next week: lower (no new all-time highs; sideways then weakness on Friday).

Currency & rates

  • US Dollar (DXY): -0.2% for the week (speaker implies + bias next week).
    • Framed as a bull flag → bias: dollar up.
  • 10-year Treasury yield: -0.3% for the week; highlighted a multi-month triangle (since ~March 2023).
    • Speaker expects yields to move higher, potentially with a more violent break when the triangle resolves.
    • Immediate expectation: yields may rise Monday/Tuesday due to nearby moving-average support.

Precious metals

  • Gold: -2.3% for the week.
    • Pattern: more like a bear flag than a true double bottom; risk of losing a key level.
    • Key levels:
      • Possible loss of the ~$4,000 area.
      • Support: ~$3,700 next.
      • “Granddaddy” support: ~$3,500 (April–Sept 2025 sideways zone).
    • Speed/caution: expects not a slow bleed, but a sharp sell-off and quick recovery (liquidity-crisis-like “spike then up”).
    • Action idea (options/entries): prefers selling puts or using limit orders on gold miners “on the way down.”
  • Physical gold ETF (PHYS): -2.2% for the week.
    • Speaker’s allocation approach: if targeting 10% to physical bullion, buy more as price falls to planned per-share prices:
      • Example buys at $36/share, $34/share, $31/share (based on “red/yellow/green” bands).
    • Risk management / limit orders: has a limit order at $26 as a “wash out” contingency; estimates odds around 15%.
  • Gold miners (GDX): -5.6% for the week.
    • Bias: lower; approaching a “green line” around ~$69.
    • Wash-out planning: if gold flushes, speaker believes miners could revisit ~$70–$75 (also references GDXJ with similar “wash out” logic).
  • Silver: -6.4% for the week.
    • Pattern: bear flag last week that played down; expects down next week.
    • Key support zone: ~$54 to $52.
    • Speaker’s broader “floor” range: ~$48 to $54.
    • Contingency: if gold washes out, silver levels may not hold (“none of these lines are going to matter”).
    • Action framing: potential good buys in miners if flush occurs.
  • Silver physical (PSLV): -5.75% for the week.
    • Speaker’s assumption: likely lower; has a limit order around $18.
    • Next support target mentioned: ~$15.
  • Silver miners (SIL): -6.0% for the week.
    • Bias: lower; expects possible loss of positive divergence.
    • Limit order at $62.50 (with support referenced behind the scenes).
  • Platinum: -1% for the week; not yet a “bettable” pattern (needs breakout confirmation).
  • Palladium: implied bullish turn
    • Palladium recently down ~43% from highs.
    • Pattern: trend line briefly violated, then price broke back above; retest/constructive close suggests an advance might be underway.
    • Speaker already took one position, considering a second next week if confirmation continues.
  • Bitcoin: +0.25% for the week.
    • Pattern: after bear flag resolution, forming a parallel channel.
    • Key resistance: ~$65,000 first, then ~$66,000.
    • Longer-term: broke below a 2021 parallel → expects more downside overall, but possible slight bounce next week if the channel holds.

Energy

  • WTI Oil: +14.4% for the week.
    • Pattern: a bull flag; speaker notes these break upward ~7 out of 10 times.
    • Resistance targets: ~$85 first.
  • Brent: +17.4% for the week.
    • Resistance zone: ~$90–$92; WTI and Brent both framed as near resistance.
    • Bias next week (oil): up until resistance.
  • Energy sector (XLE): +4.7% for the week.
    • Forming another long bull flag; possibly a “super-long” version that can chop before breakout.
  • Natural gas: -1.1% for the week.
    • Pattern quality: forming a “golf putter” / weaker structure; speaker doesn’t like it enough to bet.
    • Mentions a possible near floor around ~2.75 (12-cent move implied as too small for a trade).
    • Action: wait for a better setup.
  • Coal sector
    • Pacific Coal: +3.6%
    • Atlantic Thermal: +2%
    • Met Coal: -2.1%
    • Coal ETF: +1.5%
    • Notes “bear flag” / “bare flag” cautions on individual names; suggests limit orders around ~$22.50 for the coal ETF due to support.

Base/critical metals & commodities

  • Copper (“Dr. Copper”): -0.3% for the week.
    • Bear flag still “alive,” but close to being invalidated.
    • Invalidation trigger: break above ~$6.44 (78.6% retracement mentioned).
    • Near-term: expects slight move up early next week; if $6.44 fails, bias turns down.
  • Copper miners ETF (COX): -4.2% for the week.
    • Bias: lower; triangle pattern.
    • Limit order ideas: $70 and deeper $60–$65 (~$63) zone mentioned.
  • Uranium
    • Uranium ETF/vehicle (SRUF): referenced as -1.1% for the week (and mentions supply/discount).
    • Speaker highlights discount ~9.9% (to NAV/spot framework implied) and 81.4 million pounds held; “no pounds added since May 11.”
    • Bias: bullish; expects uranium may get cheaper into/through summer seasonality.
    • Price commentary: “smoking deal” around $18.50 (stated “$1850”).
    • Next support for SRUF: ~$17.
  • UNM (Freeport?)
    • UNM down 9.5% for the week.
    • Pattern: breakdown “hoped for”; speaker bought back around $49.
    • Next limit order: $45; hopes for washout, though thinks $30 prior low is unlikely to be revisited.
  • Nickel futures / nickel equities
    • Nickel futures: +2.2%
    • Pick ETF (PIC): -1.8%
    • Speaker’s macro explanation (from Rick Rule + Darren Gordon):
      • Higher diesel prices (linked to Strait of Hormuz) → mini-recession → reduced demand for nickel-bearing inputs.
    • Speaker hasn’t sold; bought more of a nickel company recently.
    • Bias next week on nickel: up.
    • PIC ETF stance: “pretty good time to buy,” citing RSI low and divergence around a rising 200-day moving average.

Explicit investing frameworks / trade construction

  • Technical patterns used repeatedly
    • Bear flag / bull flag: infer direction based on breakout behavior (speaker cites ~7/10 for bull flags historically).
    • Measured moves for bear flags: take the pole and extend down to the breakout distance; applied to an SSPC/2x inverse-style setup.
    • Triangle breakdown/breakout: tighter triangles expected to break more violently, with an implied upside resolution for Treasuries/yields.
    • Parallel channels: use channel support/resistance as floors and bounce expectations (Bitcoin, silver).
  • “Wash out” / limit-order laddering
    • For gold/silver miner plans, speaker expects sharp sell-offs and possible recovery; therefore places limit orders deeper:
      • Examples: PHYS $26; GDX $70–$75; PSLV $18 then $15; SIL $62.50.
  • Portfolio allocation logic (physical bullion)
    • As price declines, accumulate more to reach a target allocation (example: 10% via staged buys at set share-price levels).

Key instruments / tickers explicitly mentioned

  • Indices/FX/rates: S&P 500, DXY, 10-year yield
  • Inverse/leveraged: SSPC (2x inverse referenced)
  • Energy: WTI, Brent, XLE
  • Precious metals / ETFs & proxies:
    • Gold: PHYS, GDX, GDXJ (plus general “gold miners” reference)
    • Silver: PSLV, SIL (and SILJ mentioned in comparison)
  • Commodities/metals: Copper spot (Copper), copper miners ETF COX
  • Uranium: SRUF
  • Nickel/industrial metals: PIC
  • Coal: coal ETF (unnamed) plus mentions of Pacific Thermal, Atlantic Thermal, Met coal (individuals/companies)
  • Other: Bitcoin (BTC)

Numbers & timelines emphasized

  • Weekly performance bars (as cited): S&P 500 (-1.6%), DXY (-0.2%), 10Y (-0.3%), gold (-2.3%), PHYS (-2.2%), GDX (-5.6%), silver (-6.4%), PSLV (-5.75%), SIL (-6.0%), copper (-0.3%), COX (-4.2%), uranium vehicle (-1.1%), UNM (-9.5%), WTI (+14.4%), Brent (+17.4%), XLE (+4.7%), natural gas (-1.1%), platinum (-1% and another -1.8% mention), nickel futures (+2.2%), PIC (-1.8%), Bitcoin (+0.25%).

  • Next-week bias calls: lower for the S&P; dollar up; yields up; gold/silver down; oil up to resistance; natural gas “no bet”; palladium up (conditional).

  • Specific dates/anchors: pattern breakout date referenced as July 7; multi-year windows March 2023, April–Sept 2025, and 2021 (Bitcoin channel).

Disclosures / cautions

  • Speaker repeatedly frames setups as technical analysis, and warns that 2x inverse leveraged products require being “right”; suggests removing the bet due to decay and weekend risk.
  • Mentions limit orders and treats “odds” as estimates (e.g., PHYS $26 order at ~15%).
  • A “no financial advice” disclaimer was not explicitly present in the subtitles provided, though trading caution language (limit orders, pattern validity) is used.

Presenters / sources (at end)

  • Steve Barton (host; “In It To Win It”)
  • Commentary sources mentioned:
    • Rick Rule (including “Rule Classroom Plus” and nickel views)
    • Darren Gordon (nickel discussion)
    • European techie (viewer testimonial; YouTube channel mentioned)

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