GDXJ – Junior Gold Miner ETF (Last:51.02)

With a longstanding rally target at 57.17 and a sell signal not far below, we had no trouble getting out of the way of last week’s massacre. The vicious shakedown was engineered by the usual sleazeballs, but we’ll have the luxury of rebuilding our inventory at prices that suit us, and without time constraints or pressure.  The 49.42 ‘d’ target of the pattern shown will be a good place to start, although it’s conceivable the correction could bring GDXJ down to as low as 44.87 (a=55.58 on 10/22) before it turns around. That pattern implies that a run-up now to 55.17 would trigger a ‘mechanical’ short, so we should be on our guard against signs of premature exuberance. _______ UPDATE (Apr  8, 1:32 p.m.):  Accumulating stock at the 49.42 correction target flagged above was a winning play, since GDXJ bottomed 9  cents below that number the next day before trampolining to 53.83.