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AYA Gold & Silver. Exotic SilverSqueeze play. 40% of the float is locked up by insiders and institutions.
Thoughts on gold and silver as a trade
A mid-Month Review: Technical Snapshots & Trade Journal so far for August 2023
GLD Trade Analysis: Are You Too Dumb To Predict Stock Prices? Me Too.
Loss Porn For All the Regards (#WeWillMakeIt)
Gold and Gold Miners are about to RIP FACES!
2023-03-27 Wrinkle Brain Plays - In the style of Hermione Granger
Precious metals miners on the move as gold touches $2,000 (NYSEARCA:GDX)
2023-03-08 Wrinkle-brain Plays (Mathematically derived options plays)
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Down ~ 70k buying call options on $AG $GDX $HL and $GOLD 23 y/o
A Look At The Best & Worst From February 23 Expiration
🚨BOOMER ZONE🚨 GRAND DADDY’S ADVICE
2023-02-17 Wrinkle-brain Plays (Mathematically derived options plays)
MAJOR BULL RUN!!!: GDXU, JNUG, GDX and gold mining stocks!!!!!!
GDXU, JNUG, GDX and GOLD are still on fire and leading the market!! I'm up 95% in 3 months
The progress on inflation using pairs trades
2022-11-07 Wrinkle-brain Plays (Mathematically derived options plays)
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Non-Boomer Portfolio Management for The Highly Regarded
Now is time to get some mining stocks and cost average down if the market tanks. Already historically low and if we do have recession/depression gold and silver historically do well. Mining stocks could 10x easy if their is a breakout in PM prices which seems to be a likely scenario
Are delta hedged short straddles on 3x ETFs more risky than on 1X ETFs?
Unsolicited Technicals post FOMC Update
Gold Is Holding Up as Stocks, Bonds, and Crypto Plunge $GLD, $GDX, $GOLD
Silver and Gold are signaling a new weekly cycle
DD Upside Call on $AU Anglogold Ashanti prior to earnings
Gold, Silver, Copper, Oil and Uranium sector and their values today
Interest rates, inflation, and where that leaves Gold and the markets.
Silver Miners still lagging the massive gains in gold & silver
$500 ~ $4800 playing AG, GDX, and GOLD
An epic Gold move has begun $GDX $GDXJ $NUGT. Today is day 1. Please hold on to the bar
Precious Metal Miners all trending lower
Discussion on precious metals - pros and cons of precious metal stocks, ETFs, and physical holdings
Bought $GDX 32 long October calls
Trying to Build Small Account With Options.
Deeper Dive into $KGC - The Canary in the Gold Mine
Waiting for the Glass Ceiling to Break
Now is not the time to be long... remember the market moves in cycles
Are we starring at another Black Swan ?
$GDX currently at the 0.618 Fibonacci retracement level in its bat harmonic. ______________________________________ // Tags: $SPX $SPY $ES $NDX $QQQ $NQ $DJI $VIX $GLD $SLV //
04/01 i said i was going to work on GDX with a proprietary options technique to “flatten the ladder”— if you held bull spreads, you’re welcome.
Gold and Silver pennystocks — 100 baggers, and the train is departing the station.
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Guys the mining etfs in times of growth will follow the spot of gold and silver pretty closely within 5-10 minutes I ran a second tab of the spot gold price and just fucked with $GDX all day Friday
Yeah, has to be this one. I've doubled down on multiple short-ish dated options that were 50% in the red already. Got fucked by theta. The shit underlying didn't help Now holding 75% (majority of that is in GOOG, AMZN and GDX) of my port in LEAPS and rolling up, when there's 30-50% profit. Up 25% YTD already (evidently, most of that is from some higher beta names, but still)
At least your GDX doing well
I sold about $20k of $GDX today. I guess we'll see on Monday.
I used to tolerate TQQQ. Too volatile for me these days, now I'm focused on hedging a leveraged position. This app is helpful at getting the balance just right between QQQ, GDX, EUO, TAIL [https://hedgehog-app-ten.vercel.app/](https://hedgehog-app-ten.vercel.app/)
I too have wasted money on volatility calls. Rebalancing HFEA style with metals adds a 3rd variable. I may go to $AOR 60/40 or $AOK 30/70 because I think the bond market may sniff a lower ten year when jobs numbers are not stunning. I should be selling gold but I trimmed junior miners to keep GDX and XME. I could have just bought GDE. This is the part of the cycle metals outperform and if you noticed mid caps have, until Wednesday outperformed MYY MIDU or MDY call options were 33% easy. I cannot hedge for Armageddon. But I can keep cash. And remember bonds too can crash. Metals by 50% gold silver more.
Which share prices are you referring to? Is this aligned to GDX?
What share prices are you doing ($75 share price reflected in 4000 gold, $85 share price reflected in 4300 gold)? Is this GDX in your predictions? I just want to better understand.
Exactly. I'm all in on gold and silver miners (GDX, GDXJ, SIL, and SILJ). I'd get GDXU if I wasn't such a puss.
GDX, GDX, SIL, and SILJ. They're all in the top 10 performing ETFs in 2025, and there's no reason why they won't continue to be in 2026 due to dedollarization, lower interest rates, monetary inflation, central bank buying, the consumption rate vs production rate of silver creating supply constraints, stagflation incoming, record profits for these miners, government debt soaring, etc. I sold all my tech stocks (NVDA, PLTR, META, HOOD) in September to buy these ETFs and I'm already up 30%. Can't say the same about those stocks. They're slightly lower than when I sold them.
My largest positions are Jan 27 leaps in SBSW, SIL, SILJ, ARMN, HL, CDE, GDX, GDXJ, NEXA, AYA and EXK. Gold, silver and platinum miners.
As a Civil Engineer who worked on coal mine projects, just a friendly warning that sometimes things go wrong in a mine and when it happens the stock will be tanked. For example FCX had a mine collapse last year. GDX is a safer bet.
Just look at GDX/GLD ratio. Miners are still way undervalued and will post the highest margins of all industries in Q4 and Q1 earnings.
CDE AYA AG NEXA SBSW ARMN SIL SILJ GDX GDXJ A few lottery tickets (explorers) TUD VSO Staying away from Hycroft andHSLV because of some experts' opinion on their overvalued assets
NEM and GDX. Did well in 2025 as gold and silver went up in value.
Fuck GDX. Should've never doubted my AI datacenters
Calls on GDX. Gold will only go up.
In for more $GDX and $GLD. Too scared of $SLV.
Currently sticking with the bigger mining etf's. GDX, SLV and PPLT. There is volutility in metals but metals are my passion. I have a mining claim in Colorado. I will have to do the opposite of you and look into down under miners.
plow into GLD plow into SLV plow into GDX happy printing
I got a lot between sil and SILJ, going to throw all my bond money into SLV. I ended up selling out of AEM and NEM due to unnecessary overlap with GDX and GDXJ etc. Wish me luck tomorrow
Sold out GDX at 87 (cost 85) and took profit, 😆
Bought some GDX at 85, for a bounce.
My top picks for 2026: NVDA AMZN GOOG SIL GDX PM CVX KMI
2026 gonna be a win for commodities producers- go big scale and ETFs. GDX, RIO, plenty others.
Sure, but I have a winning strategy now. Why allocate money into miners that will perform worse? The squeeze in silver is because the banking cartel have suppressed the price of silver for the last 40 years. Its undoing itself now. They've lost. Its also because there's an arbitrage price difference between Shanghai silver and COMEX, and Chinese markets are pricing silver based on the actual price of the metal, not on the shit SLV paper silver the banks have created in North America. I suspect the banking cartel will move on to suppress the silver miners next, since they're lost control of the underlying commodity. I wouldn't touch SIL, SILJ, GDX, OR GDXJ. Just stick to the basics.
So the gold and silver bull market is luck? Look at the year's performance of SIL, SILJ, GDX, all up over 100% in 2025. Gold at $2600 on Jan 1 to $4600 today. Silver $29 to $79. Luck my ass, I've been waiting for this move for a decade, and the train is just leaving the station. If you don't see the once in a lifetime situation here you have blinders on. Heard of the Everything Bubble? It's been the "Everything but Gold and the miners" until now. There's a capital rotation beginning and I've been positioned for it, albiet way too early.
I'm heavy into GDXU & AGQ right now, probably delever into GDX, SIL & SPPP by early April.
SILJ, SLV, GDX, and SILJ call options starting Sept. Note sharp drop, options did that too.
SIL for senior miners (already working mines) SILJ for junior (exploration, no earnings yet, high risk/high reward) GDX for gold miners (most produce silver as a byproduct and gold is starting a new breakout) Single stocks: CDE for North American exposure (less risk of nationalization) NEXA for a very undervalued play (they present themselves as a Zinc miner but are one of the largest Silver producers and have their own smelters) HSLV just bought Corani, the second largest high yield silver mine in the world through a merger with BCM, a company which was horribly managed All those are +150%-200% YTD but still trading with a cost of extraction of 10-20 USD/oz and their guidances was made with a bullion price of 30/Oz LMAO They'll go face ripping after earnings
Gold is up 1% yet my GDX calls are still at a loss.... I just want to breakeven and get out. No more 5DTE plays....I've learnt my lesson.
I predict GDX and SIL will go another 100% by end of next year
US STOCKS WAIVER AS GOLD POWERS AHEAD checks GDX down 3% lol
In the interest of disclosure, I have large positions in SLV, GLD, UGL, GDX, and GDXU. I've become increasingly wary of the risks associated with exchange-traded notes (ETNs), so I'll be locking in my profits on GDXU and switching to GDX LEAPS once the new year hits. I additionally have large amounts of GLD and SLV LEAPS. I semi-annually rotate my profits out of the riskier plays into GLD, VOO, and BRK.A.
My hot take is that indexing doesn't keep up with real inflation (unless you mean the the SILJ or GDX/GDXJ) . Though it does out perform the CPI... if you believe those numbers
GDX (gold mining) up 120%. Seems people are really nervous about the dollar and inflation. Though just like everything else, commodities can be over hyped...
I owe the dude who posted DD on GDX like a mo ago a big fat wet kiss
GDX GDXJ SIL SILJ calls here 🤞🏽🤞🏽
Gold forget to buy some GLD to pump your GDX
Barrick has performed far better over the past 6 months. B is up 111% in the past 6 months and GDX is up 65%.
Why not GDX instead? I am debating if ETF vs companies are better
Up 26%, GDX brought up the curve from my losers
GDX, GDX, and SIL are up +100% YTD. This has been one of my best years in a long time. You can't just bet "the market." You have to figure out what the market doesn't know and get ahead of it.
Gold & silver continue to outperform the rest of the stock market. Buy low risk, less volatile ETFs like GDX, UGL or AGQ if you want to double your money. Buy high risk, more volatile ETFs like NUGT, JNUG or GDXU if you want to triple your money or more.
I do not. I do synthetic stock just ITM in the money long call and short put same strike delta \~\[within 1% of100 at \~60dte Theta \~less than 1 \[now, Monday night\] Buying power reduction 2272 GDX at 84.82 max loss 8495 gain infinity \[same p/l profile as stock. Not much change actually until get down to less than 20dte. So I open a synthetic at 45-90 dte \[more stable ITM (not far, just ITM or not more than 1-2%/a strike or two) and more dte than short leg\]. For short leg I like 7-21 dte short leg and 30 delta. Main aims of course are: 1. \[any trade\] liquid stock and 2. stock that is growing or flat.
Also, the conventional wisdom that miners trade like a leveraged version of the underlying commodity does not always hold. It's true in a lot of cases, since their underlying profits leverage to it. However, that's not been the case for the last two years. As a good example, back in 2024 Q2, the top gold miners, like Barrick and Newmont, had an average all-in sustaining cost (AISC) of around $1300/ounce. The average price of gold in that quarter was around $2350/ounce, which is a difference of $1050/ounce. Now, if we look one year later, at 2025 Q2, we can see the average AISC was $1420/ounce while gold was $3280/ounce. So, gold had an improvement of around 40% YoY wheres the miners' AISC only changed by around 10% YoY. We didn't see a big jump in those miners, though, until earnings season, so there was a significant leverage lag and thus substantial upside. You can see, going back further, that these miners and collections of miners, like GDX, have significantly lagged due to being largely forgotten. If you grabbed LEAPS early, even as recently as last year, then you would have locked in a 1100%-3200%+ gain for just holding a few months. We're seeing the same story play out now. A lot of the big miners took a bruising in October because gold was overbought during the 2025 Q3 run-up. However, the miners themselves were not significantly overbought. The ratio of gold miners (GDX) to gold (GLD) was only around 0.209, which is below the biggest GDX-overbought periods seen in 2020 (0.231) and 2016 (0.234) and closer to the long-term average (0.19). As well, if you look the miners' AISCs now, they're around $1550/ounce, much of which is attributed to the higher royalty payments that are tied to the price of gold. Some companies, like Agnico Eagle, still only have an AISC in the $1370/ounce range. So, as long as gold continues to either consolidate or rise from its current $4300/ounce range, then there looks to be a lot of potential upside going into February earnings period when 2025 Q4 results are reported for all of the main miners.
Good question, but is 250% apy not enough? Or 400? But here's the real thing: GDX's IV is higher (giving those fatter premiums) because **its price is much more volatile**. Have you plotted the 2 together? Here you go: [GLD vs GDX, 3 months](https://imgur.com/a/pIlpJkS) I'd much rather have a smoother underlying to sell CCs on than all those ups and downs of the miners. Oh, and another thing: GDX doesn't have M/W/F expirations, so you're locked into Weeklies. So with the ability to trad GLD 20 3 times a week, maybe you match GDX's weekly Premiums anyway? I like how you're thinking though, and GDX is definitely a leveraged gold play. You probably know about GDXJ too, but the charts are about the same, and GDX wins on liquidity. Take care.
Hey! What do you think on doing this on GDX? IV and premiums for 5dte are just about double while correlation to gold is almost 1. Also Beta sits around 1.60, so basically it is leveraging gold. Wouldn't this increase further your returns??
LITE, GLD + GDX + SLV, RKLB, MU maybe, PLTR maybe
This is my copy pasta as it was asked the other day somewhere. Gold starts... Copper confirms... Lithium bridges... Oil follows. Silver hit a high 11/13(?, damn close if not right) so the question is this a breakout or a fake out? Where I am from we treat stocks as global assets. So we have to zoom out a bit to delve deeper. China is ripping this year. Europe leads the pack. Latin America is also breaking out fresh multi-year highs. Meanwhile the U.S. has been the laggard. I remember 2011 well. Silver mania was wild. Once the bubble burst, silver collapsed 68%. The Silver Miners ETF (SIL) dropped more than 80%. Now here we are, back at the same level. It only took 14 1/2 years. Any chart you look at is price in U.S. dollars. That’s the American view. If you really want to gauge if this break out is real, you have to look how silver is doing around the globe. And in Euro, Silver has already taken out the 2011 highs. It's at its highest level ever. You're seeing the same thing across the board: Silver is making new all-time highs in British Pounds, Japanese Yen, Australian Dollar, Canadian Dollar, even Chinese Yuan. If Silver is already breaking out in every other major currency, it's hard to argue it won't eventually do the same in U.S. Dollars. That’s how I see it. ( I recently closed a Silver LEAP from 2024 for a 500% gain.) That’s the playbook we used with gold. Before gold broke out in USD, it was already hitting all time highs in other countries. That was the tell. I will dovetail from where I started. Gold miners, uranium, steel, copper, lithium... they're not just outperforming. The VanEck Gold Miners ETF (GDX) is up 140%. The Global X Uranium ETF (URA) is up nearly 84%. The SPDR S&P Metals and Mining ETF (XME), the Global X Copper Miners ETF (COPX), and the VanEck Steel ETF (SLX) are all up between 74% and 78%. While the S&P 500 sits at plus 17%, commodities are screaming that the global market structure has already changed. Now look at the Energy Select SPDR Fund (XLE). Two years of consolidation, volatility compressed... sellers exhausted... resistance tested over and over. Every major energy move in history started this way: a fading dollar; commodity leadership; improving risk appetite; and a sector that spends years preparing for the next leg higher. XLE hasn't broken out yet. But everything around it already has. It’s the last domino. Breakout or not, the message is clear: This cycle is shifting toward real assets, hard assets, and energy. Now you know what I know.
Gold miners ETF, you'll find the same companies are digging up both gold and silver whilst they're operating. GDX as an example https://www.vaneck.com/uk/en/investments/gold-miners-etf/overview/
Congrats any GDX GDXJ SIL SILJ holders
GDX orgasm is really starting to ache my balls is this what karma sutra feels like? whens it over ?
Replace tech stocks with SPY, JPM and GDX.
You can buy Gold or Silver ETF calls (IAU GLD SLV) or, better, buy calls for the companies who mine it. Their value has not gone up as much as the mineral, which is typical during gold rushes. They go up later when reporting their earnings, and some have gone 50-100X in value in the previous gold rushes. My plays are SIL SILJ and GDX, OTM leaps
Yes I am in GDX as it is the largest, I am looking into more silver focused etfs and joniors. And we have stacked heavily in physical
First of all, congrats, awesome wins! To get 75%, you've taken on a lot of risk - so far you've managed it well enough...but never a bad idea to review risk management - position sizing, concentration risk, trading some non-correlated assets, etc. When I get assigned, I like to sell covered strangles, rather than straight covered calls. Double the premiums, because I'm selling a call and a put at the same time. Only do this if my thesis on the stock is intact, I'm not too concentrated in the stock already, and the position size is manageable. If the stock keeps falling, I get assigned, and I've lowered my cost basis (as you mentioned), but I also collect the premiums on the short call. The short call and short put offset each other and gives you lots of options to manage or defend either leg. Check out tastytrade youtubes on defending strangles. Favorite wheelers: TSLL (tesla leveraged) ETHA (ethereum etf) SOLT (leveraged solana) PAAS (Pan American Silver) GDX (gold miners) SOXL (semiconductors, leveraged) NVDL (nvidia levereaged) DRIP (inverse oil services...not currently playing) TAC (canadian energy play - monthly only)
"do we love miners? I love miners!" he's right, more GDX GDXJ SIL SILJ
GDX is down 70% priced in Gold, one of the most underpriced relative to Gold ever
No. should have invested in GDX in 2020 and kept buying. imagine thinking gold wont go up when all policy is inflationary for the USD. fucking noobs
GOOG is the only thing I'd put significant money on. Reasonable forward p/e and it's one of the few companies getting traction on both the AI hardware and Software side. Even then the market is really frothy and I don't like Nvidia's DSO ticking up, so I'm taking taking a conservative stance right now, the riskiest thing I own is GDX.
GDX when priced in Gold is now officially over 70% down from its all time high, one of the most undervalued ratios it has ever been when measured against the price of Gold
Believe it or not, calls (GLD GDX SIL SLV)
The data I saw was based off market cap of GDX relative to Gold adjusted for inflation but who knows. Either say it's amazing how cheap they are for how much profit brought in
I think we are entering modestly high inflation at 2.5%-3.0% CPI while labor productivity continues to surge from AI, spatial web and robotics factories. Inflation hedges are hard assets: Gold buy GLD or GDX Real estate by Realty Income (O) or Federal Realty Trust (FRT) Crypto buy IBIT
Gold starts... Copper confirms... Lithium bridges... Oil follows. Silver hit a high 11/13(?, damn close if not right) so the question is this a breakout or a fake out? Where I am from we treat stocks as global assets. So we have to zoom out a bit to delve deeper. China is ripping this year. Europe leads the pack. Latin America is also breaking out fresh multi-year highs. Meanwhile the U.S. has been the laggard. I remember 2011 well. Silver mania was wild. Once the bubble burst, silver collapsed 68%. The Silver Miners ETF (SIL) dropped more than 80%. Now here we are, back at the same level. It only took 14 1/2 years. Any chart you look at is price in U.S. dollars. That’s the American view. If you really want to gauge if this break out is real, you have to look how silver is doing around the globe. And in Euro, Silver has already taken out the 2011 highs. It's at its highest level ever. You're seeing the same thing across the board: Silver is making new all-time highs in British Pounds, Japanese Yen, Australian Dollar, Canadian Dollar, even Chinese Yuan. If Silver is already breaking out in every other major currency, it's hard to argue it won't eventually do the same in U.S. Dollars. That’s how I see it. ( I recently closed a Silver LEAP from 2024 for a 500% gain.) That’s the playbook we used with gold. Before gold broke out in USD, it was already hitting all time highs in other countries. That was the tell. I will dovetail from where I started. Gold miners, uranium, steel, copper, lithium... they're not just outperforming. The VanEck Gold Miners ETF (GDX) is up 140%. The Global X Uranium ETF (URA) is up nearly 84%. The SPDR S&P Metals and Mining ETF (XME), the Global X Copper Miners ETF (COPX), and the VanEck Steel ETF (SLX) are all up between 74% and 78%. While the S&P 500 sits at plus 17%, commodities are screaming that the global market structure has already changed. Now look at the Energy Select SPDR Fund (XLE). Two years of consolidation, volatility compressed... sellers exhausted... resistance tested over and over. Every major energy move in history started this way: a fading dollar; commodity leadership; improving risk appetite; and a sector that spends years preparing for the next leg higher. XLE hasn't broken out yet. But everything around it already has. It’s the last domino. Breakout or not, the message is clear: This cycle is shifting toward real assets, hard assets, and energy. Now you know what I know.
Gold is currently going through its usual consolidation stage after a large run-up over the last few months. This time of the year is also typically when gold stagnates and low-volume plays can swing the markets greatly. Gold likely won't start to pick up again either until another two-ish months pass or until we have more insight into both the inflation rate and the potential for future rate cuts. I previously held an eight-figure combined position in GLD, UGL, and GDXU from late February to early May. I bought back into them at a similar level in early August. I am still holding shares in all three tickers. I sold most of my deep-ITM LEAPS on GLD and GDX last week, since volatility started to impact their value and will likely continue to do so until around the Chinese New Year.
!banbet Friends in the future always do GDX or GDXJ for banbets not shitty GLD
HOOD ❤️ Missed the entire GDX SILJ run 😓
So many homeless people in Seattle, not like blew it on 0dte homeless like fent zombie homeless. Makes me sad like damn that was someones little boy or girl what happened. Anyway tomorrow I'm buying GDX and GLD longs
No need for Congress, no need for the "Supreme" Court, no need to vote, and certainly no need for an independent Fed either, right? Putin doesn't have to deal with such Democratic ideals, and the Trump/Musk/Republican regime clearly doesn't want to have to deal with them either. So, Trump will drive interest rates down (even though inflation remains closet to 3% than 2% ...) and I suspect gold will continue its epic run as the rest of the world loses faith in American Democracy and our currency. Still not too late to buy GDXJ (or GDX). GDXJ is already +133% under Trump's first year and it likely has much (much!) further to run over the next three years - or at least until it all comes tumbling down, in which case gold bullion buried in the back 40 may be the better strategy.
Bruh your timing is wild - GDX at $81 after being at $33 a year ago and you're still buying more? That's some serious diamond hands energy right there. Hope that historical edge plays out for you tomorrow 🚀
Take a look at the GDX DD in the main sub; maybe the metal is starting the run predicted for February a bit early? Thought there was going to be consolidation for at least a bit longer before any move up without a serious trigger event.
GDX is honestly garbage for wallstreebets Buy ASX listed miners if you want a lambo (they are priced for 3000 gold) WGX BC8 etc etc
I also think gold is going to do well over the next few years even after its huge rise this year. I think $5000 next year is completely reasonable. I don’t personally like physical gold or ETF equivalents. I like to invest in gold mining companies. I own several individual holdings plus GDX and GDXJ. They are higher volatility but can outperform gold substantially. Gold is up 56% this year but GDX is up 140% and some of my individual stocks are up even more.
Honestly, hedging with some call options for gold GDX. Maybe some call options for NVDA by end of December or just buy NVDL.
I'm heavy in Gold and GDX but man the miners are an emotional Rollercoaster, luckily trending up
#TLDR --- Ticker: GDX Direction: Up Prognosis: Pressing long, load up on calls Catalyst: Post-Thanksgiving green day history + thin volume pump
“Solid breakdown — central bank demand and falling real yields definitely make gold miners more appealing this cycle. Love the mix of GDX/GDXJ and low-cost individual names for leverage play. Fingers crossed the thesis plays out!”
You're welcome, and I'm glad you're trying it! I've been loving XBI since 10/22, and added XLV and XPH more recently because they screened in for 2 ETFs I was cutting. I AM very concentrated in that area though, aren't I? But I don't look for ETFs that I *think* might do well; I simply find the ones that *are* doing well. Have you seen [how I screen on Barchart](https://imgur.com/a/etf-screening-on-barchart-G2Q5UWp)? You might need to pay for Barchart Plus to be able to do some of the steps, but the Flipcharts feature is more than worth it to me. But however you screen, **look at charts**, and look for *smoooooth*. I'll pick an ETF that's doing 'just' 2% a month over one that's doing 10% if it's a smoother ride. Because I know I can leverage that to something like 6%/month, and that's enough for anybody. And I don't have to worry too much about buying in on the wrong day and it tanks a day or three after. Because that hurts when you're buying LEAPS Calls. I just screened again, 3-month performance, Has Options, Volume >700k, then looking at 6-month charts: **XBI** was #1. That thing is up 53% over 6 months. Buy the 90-delta Call at 388DTE and you're getting 3.1x leverage after adjusting for Delta. That's huge. Silver and its miners, plus the gold miners GDX & GDXJ were next, and they're making me think it might be time for me to get back into precious metals. **IBB** was next, but of course it's another biotech. Still, 40% over 6 months, and look how smooth. Then **GLD** and other gold ETFs. Gold had a great runup since late 2023, and I caught some of it this year, but gave some of it back too after the peak on 10/20. I'll probably get back in if/when gold clears 4,200. Take care, Mike
I agree that gold is the move. However GLD is just fine if you don't plan to hold long term. Otherwise GDX is a good alternative. I like options so these ETFs are preferred
I’ll be doing what I always do, sticking to large cap US growth stocks. I dabble in single company stocks in my trading account and keep the majority of my holdings in S&P 500 and QQQ with some financials and energy etfs and stocks to spread risk. Plus, I use gold miners (GDX) as part of my portfolio as ballast. If the market tanks, I’ll sell some of my unleveraged etfs and buy leveraged etfs to ride the market back up
Long mainly in gold and tech stocks. Will DCA in both. Option trades (bullish, bearish) on opportunities as they arise e.g. short calls on IBIT (bitcoin), short puts on GDX (gold miners) and so on.
Surprisingly, my intl large cap value (LVHI) & intl corporate bond (IBND) etfs are green today, probably due to declining DXY. Gold miner (GDX & GDXU) etfs were red today but they've been REALLY green for the past week & due for a pullback. Unsurprisingly, 3xshorts (SOXS, SQQQ & SPXS) were very green today & for the past 2 weeks.