Thursday, October 20, 2011

Disconnect

There's been something of a disconnect between the performance of gold and some of the gold miners. Here's the spot gold price. There was a desultory rally and now further weakness.

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Regis mining is one of those stocks which has outperformed the price of the underlying.

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I'm short at 294 with a stop at 302. Funnily enough, there's a strong chance that I'm simply trading a c wave pullback before another look at 305 or higher but the lower short term high at 300 looks reasonably well tested over 3 days and something like 275 to 280 is doable in the short term. Just a quickie then.

LYC is interesting. It tanked yesterday afternoon on talk of a failure to get approval for a processing plant from the Malaysian authorities. I bought some of my short back at 110 and was close to getting more at 100. There was a late recovery and the stock has held at around 110 this morning. The approval process is not complete and an answer is not expected for a few weeks but there must be some thought that "where there's smoke there's fire" because otherwise the stock should have rebounded. Still short and happy to buy more below 100.

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