A mountain formed of an immense block of hard stone. A symbol of longevity and strength. One special kind of stone, gold, adds another dimension to that wealth. But even the strongest environment can give way to the wondrous power of nature.
This battle is playing out in the stock market as well. The chart below shows the ratio of the Energy ETF (NYSE:XLE) compared to the Gold ETF (NYSE:GLD). Gold has been in charge of this relationship for 2 years. The ratio has drifted lower over that timeframe.
But 2016 may be changing that. Since finding a bottom in February the ratio moved higher. It filled the gap from the start of the year at the end of April and pulled back. But it was a shallow pullback that has now retraced and moved back to that prior high. The price action forms a Cup and Handle pattern. A continuation higher would give a target of 0.71 in the ratio.
But the ratio has been in similar situations before. By this I mean the move over teh 200 day SMA. Wednesday took the ratio back over the 200 day SMA for the first time since December. Back then it could not create any separation with the smoothing mechanism. And it could not do so in May of 2015 either. In fact the ratio has had only a few brief stints over the 200 day SMA since it first crossed under it in October 2014.
Will it continue or fail this time? It has momentum on its side to continue. The RSI is bullish and rising and the MACD is crossed up and moving higher. But it also has moved out of the Bollinger Bands®. This is a short term overbought condition. Watch how this plays out, but for now Power has the upper hand over Rocks.
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