๐ฐ๐ฅ๐ช The Golden Breakout: $GDX and $GLD Signal a Multi-Year Mania ๐ช๐๐ช
$SPDR Gold Shares(GLD)$ $VanEck Gold Miners ETF(GDX)$ $Dow Jones(.DJI)$ ๐ 20 Oct 2025 ๐ณ๐ฟ | VanEck Gold Miners ETF ($GDX) & SPDR Gold Shares ($GLD)
Iโm tracking $GDX and $GLD as they carve out what could become one of the most powerful multi-year surges in modern markets. $GDX trades near $78.73 and $GLD around $389; every chart, flow, and macro signal still points higher.
๐ Technical Analysis: Decoding the Charts
Iโm watching $GDXโs monthly inverse-hammer candle form above $78. If it closes here, it confirms a topping-path breakout, the same pattern that triggered 100 % plus runs from past cycle lows.
Fibonacci projections mark the path to $85 โ $93.6 โ $104 โ $115.7 by 2027.
A retrace to the 0.786 Fib ($78.83) or $73โ74 support zone would be my ideal reload region.
On the weekly and 4 H charts, Keltner and Bollinger bands are tightening, showing volatility compression before another continuation leg.
Momentum remains robust; RSI 73.5, ADX 46.9, and AroonUp > 70 confirm trend dominance and institutional momentum. $GDXโs 14-day average volume is up 46 % since April, confirming renewed fund inflows.
For $GLD, the 200-day MA ($315) hasnโt been breached since Nov 2023, thatโs 23 months of uninterrupted strength. A daily bearish-engulfing candle suggests a healthy 2โ3 % cool-off to $380โ$385, but the structure stays parabolic.
๐ Macro Backdrop: The Great Monetary Shift
The Morgan Stanley G3 bond-supply data shows sovereign issuance across the US, EU, and UK exploding over five years. Normally, that would lift long-end yields, yet they remain artificially flat.
Why? Treasury desks have swapped duration from long bonds into short notes, muting the term premium.
Thatโs engineered stability, not organic balance; and gold is calling the bluff.
Central banks, led by China and India, are buying aggressively; around 80 tonnes so far this year, while dollar reserves fall to decade lows. The rotation out of Treasuries and into hard assets is the foundation of this super-cycle.
Global ETF gold holdings now exceed 3,750 tonnes, their highest since 2020, while US M2 money supply has expanded 7.8 % YTD, reinforcing goldโs liquidity premium. The bond-market duration swap is creating a liquidity flush that distorts yield reality and accelerates goldโs credibility reset.
๐ก Valuations Are Stretched to Breaking Point
Robert Shillerโs famous CAPE ratio is flashing again. Investors are paying nearly 40 ร earnings, levels last seen during the 1999 dot-com bubble, eerily similar to todayโs AI-fuelled equity mania.
When valuations hit these extremes, capital searches for stores of value. Goldโs surge isnโt irrational; itโs the market re-pricing risk back into reality.
Gold now leads all major assets with a +65 % YTD total return and 4.0 ร Sharpe ratio (Goldman Sachs data). Even Bitcoin (+16 %), Nasdaq (+18 %), and S&P 500 (+14 %) lag.
This isnโt speculation; itโs a monetary transition in motion.
๐ฐ Catalysts and Sentiment
Weโve entered the mania phase; viral clips show queues worldwide for physical gold. ETF inflows confirm it, with $GLD taking in $1.2 B in September and Indiaโs gold ETFs now exceeding $10 B AUM.
CTA funds are now scaling into goldโs breakout phase, mechanically amplifying each up-leg as trend models chase momentum.
Institutional participation remains light; CFTC net longs โ 1.7 ร, meaning the smart moneyโs still early.
Analysts are catching up; Goldman Sachs $4,900/oz, HSBC $5,000, BofA $4,900โ$5,000 by 2026.
Even with goldโs spike to $4,179/oz, weโre still early in the structural repricing of real assets.
โ๏ธ Black Monday 1987: The Lesson That Never Leaves Me
I was working for a stockbroker in Perth, Western Australia on this day in 1987. I still remember the phones ringing off the hook and the fear in every voice.
That day, the Dow crashed 22.6 % and the S&P 500 plunged 20.5 %, the worst single-day drop in history. Circuit breakers were born from that chaos.
Gold stood tall then. Thirty-eight years later, markets again feel over-leveraged and fragile. When everything shakes, gold doesnโt ask questions; it answers them.
๐ฎ Watchlist and Strategy
Iโm watching:
โข $GDX support $73โ74 โ resistance $85 / $93.6 / $104 / $115 (target double by 2027)
โข $GLD support $380โ385 โ upside $400 / $425 (mid-2026 target)
โข Macro triggers: Fed pivot in December, US-China trade headlines, long-end yield drift, Treasury auctions
โข Options positioning: Long $GDX Dec 80 C and $GLD Nov 400 C; short interest in $GDX โ 2 %, leaving room for institutional inflows
๐งญ My Take: Trading the Monetary Reset
Iโm not chasing noise; Iโm positioning for a global collateral repricing thatโs already underway.
Gold isnโt moving out of fear; itโs repricing the true cost of money in a world where debt, issuance, and leverage have outpaced credibility.
Iโm treating gold and $GDX as both offensive positioning and intelligent hedging; a structural play that protects while it compounds.
When others hedge reactively, I hedge proactively, using exposure that participates in the upside while insulating against systemic mispricing.
$GDX remains my high-beta leverage to that theme. I see every consolidation as a recalibration before the next structural advance.
Iโm positioning through this market reckoning, not reacting to it. When liquidity distorts truth, gold restores it; and that reset is what separates traders from investors who recognise the cycle shift early.
In a world leveraged 40 ร earnings, gold isnโt speculation; itโs valuation discipline priced in ounces, not multiples.
Iโm staying long, hedged, and data-driven until the macro breaks the pattern.
You know what to do.
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