TA on the HUI Gold Bugs

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The HUI Gold Bugs index is well along in its correction

In the precious metals, like other markets, I am usually focused on market internals, especially by way of ratio charts. I am into other aspects, especially about the macro environment in which a given sector or market exists. Indeed, the ratio and ‘internals’ charting helps define the top-down macro.

Preamble aside, I began as a regular chart guy. I learned about bull and bear flags, volume considerations, Heads & Shoulders, trend analysis (long ago did I learn that trend “lines” are not as important as TAs like to believe; it’s other trend measures like moving average trends and higher/lower highs/lows that matter), overbought/sold, support/resistance and so on.

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