Junior Miners Showing Strength

 | Aug 24, 2022 01:17PM ET

Just to say something positive for a change—although gold seems to do little but disappoint me—the VanEck Junior Gold Miners ETF (NYSE:GDXJ) has a couple of things going for it.

One, it tagged the lower bound of is broadening pattern quite nicely, and two, its recent low is a higher low than before, which suggests strength. If it can clear its recent high, maybe we’ve got something substantive going on here.