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Gold Miners: Juniors vs Seniors - Here's What I'm Seeing

One of the factors I'm looking at in determining whether global gold mining shares can reverse their multi-month bearish trend is the ratio between junior miners and seniors miners.

The weekly chart sees the price continuing to trade within a multi-month downward channel and below the downward trend line. So far this week, Juniors are outpacing Seniors by 1.41% on a relative basis and while the trend is broadly lower, there are minor signs of a potential reversal.

(1) The 14-week RSI has made an early breakout, possibly leading the price;
(2) although below the centre line, the MACD has made a bullish crossover.

A similar structure is seen during March 2016.

Juniors are more geared to the gold price thus signs of relative outperformance could be an early read into the broader sector.
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