I performed an analysis of similar take down of gold in the past few years, since June 2008.

The selling strength of the past few days is one of the strongest.

I recorded 20 such events and the Figure below shows the average returns of Gold and GDX if you buy a the close of such a day (today is such a day).

The benchmark is defined as the average return for one day, two days, etc, independently of the selling/buying strength.

This figure shows that after 10 days, the returns are much better than the benchmark, but also that after a "take-down", gold stays in a trading range for three to four days, before bouncing.

I will post a more complete study on the subject in tomorrow's daily comment.


Pascal

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