This Time Gold Miners Are Going Differently

Generally, when U.S. dollar is rising the shares of gold miners are going down (as gold and silver). But most recently, gold miners has been doing quite well despite U.S. dollar rising (gold has been repeating the old pattern, i.e. going down or stalling with $ going up). Please, look at the chart below:.

The orange areas indicate the rising U.S. dolar environment - at these times PM miners are going down.
But look at the last orange area (starting in March 2014) - PM miners have been going up quite steeply. It looks very bullish for PM miners' stocks..

Silver and Gold - At Inflection Point Again (How Many Times Yet?)

Gold is hated in the West. No matter what happens it stays unchanged or goes down.
The game is simple: BUY U.S. stocks SELL gold.
But sometimes the game is at interesting points. Presently we have such a point. Please, look at the chart below:

Most recently silver has started to weaken against gold. This is good for gold bears and bad for gold bulls. When we have a bull market in precious metals sector then silver is better investment than gold. Since August 2013 silver has stopped to go down against gold which has been a rather good sign for gold bulls.
 But today we have a test period again - if silver goes down below the green line on the centred chart the bear market in PM sector could start again.

And just one look at the dominating pattern in gold (it repeats nearly every day):

Gold Miners Are Trying To Go Their Own Way

Firstly I would like to remind you one of the charts illustrating the gold miners' relative strength against gold:

Despite a long term up trend in gold, recently the precious metals miners have been dramatically undervalued against gold. But presently the situation is very interesting. Let us look at the chart below:

As in August 2013 and in February 2014, PM miners are trying to set free from gold. Despite gold going nowhere, the prices of PM miners are going higher. Please, study these markets carefully. If we can see the breakdown in the relative strength of PM miners against gold, the big bull run in PM miners stocks could start.
In the end, just a look at things from a different perspective....

Gold Inflows Into GLD Replicate The Gold Prices

Nothing special in gold. When we have the gold bull run the we should see gold inflows into GLD (sort of a fund acccumulating the physical gold). And the opposite. Let us look at the chart below:

Since March 2014 we observe the similar action concerning the gold price and gold inflows into GLD. Well, the consolidation phase in gold is still intact.

Lake Shore Gold - In My Opinion This Is One Of The Best Gold Miners

Lake Shore Gold is a Canadian gold miner operating three gold complexes in the Timmins Gold Camp (Canada).
The company (ticker NYSEMKT:LSG) has made a huge progress most recently. The stock price action mirrors the company management's work. Let us look at the chart below:

To illustrate what happened in the company's fundamentals, please, look at these charts and numbers below.

Some of the numbers were adjusted to make them comparable - the quaterly ebitda, cash flow from operations and gold ounces produced were multiplied by a factor of 4 to compare them to the yearly numbers.

As you see, LSG extracts gold from higher grade deposits - for those not familiar with gold, grades etc. it means that LSG is digging in the rock with higher quantity of gold. Which is good.

LSG is ramping up its production- in the second quarter of 2014 it extracted 52,300 ounces of gold which, adjusting it to the whole year, makes around 200,000 ounces a year (actually, the company plans to extract around 160,000 ouces of gold, which is more than in 2013).

And the most important thing - cash flow from operations. LSG is not digging gold - it is digging cash. And it is a lot of cash. Taking into account that presntly the LSG enterprise value stands at $565 million it means that the investment in LSG shares should pay back in 3.6 years. Not bad.

Today We Have An Excellent Long Entry Point. Don't We?

Let us look at the chart below:

Hmmmmmm...

U.S. equities - a Topping process

Bears had their time most recently. At last. But in my opinion this is not the beginning of the major decline or a bear market in stocks. Let us look at the charts below:

Only Russell 2000 is in its consolidation phase; the other indices are trending up and the last decline has been just a usual correction.
So the bull market is still intact; no matter how big the accompanying divergencies are. And there are many of them (just look at some of my previous posts).
But there is something which is really different this time...or it could be. The main divergency I will be closely watching from now on is NYSE Advnace-Decline Issues. Look at the chart below:

To spot what is going now I had to present the last chart in a much shorter time span:

As you can spot, the market's picture has just started to look very awful for the bulls.