Gold Stock Correction Dynamics
Contributed Opinion

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1. As of the date of this article, officers, contractors, shareholders, and/or employees of Streetwise Reports LLC (including members of their household) own securities of Agnico Eagle Mines Limited, B2Gold Corp., Equinox Gold Corp., Franco-Nevada Corporation, Elemental Royalty Corp., Royal Gold Inc., Orogen Royalties Inc., Triple Flag Precious Metals Corp., and Dakota Gold Corp.
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Let's be realistic: the correction in gold, silver, and the mining/royalty companies that profit from their extraction and sale was not only anticipated but also justified. The correction was necessary as an extremely over-played sector entered Q1, 2026.

The HUI Gold Bugs index is now in a support area between the 50% and 62% Fibonacci retrace levels of the rally from the July low. A bounce can come at any time. There is also still a solid chance of an eventual decline to 'bottom re-test' support in the 640 to 670 range. That's the simple technical view.

What we have today is a sector left for (almost) dead, in favor of the Semiconductor, AI, and big Tech flavors of the day. That is as it should be during a phase when stocks needed to play catch-up and suck 'em back in before the bigger-picture macro grinds back to pro-gold relative to broad stocks. Reference the previous Streetwise article, which included a discussion of gold's macro standing vs. the stock market.

Very simply, much like the precious metals needed the correction that began in Q1, 2026, the stock market needed a rebound in relation to the global value/health barometer, gold.

The question now is, how far will this rebound go? It can hold below the dome, or it can run to the measured target of the bull pattern at around 2.50, or halt anywhere in between. It's a matter of time and degree before gold takes back the macro.

I am not going to try to predict the near-term to intermediate-term future. I am going to advise that while the technicals imply that gold and silver could soon bounce or even rally, there is no confirmation that ultimate lows are in yet.

Please see this October 8 article about the technical and fundamental state of gold and silver, before we move on to the gold and silver stock discussion.

The Miners Leverage the Metal

That is the most important point about gold miners that many people get wrong or only half right. For many years, there was constant complaining in the gold "community" about how the miners had lost their vaunted leverage to the price of gold.

Well, that is not at all the case. Of course, the miners leveraged gold to the downside! Bloated of their own premium valuations and increasingly shoddy operating practices during the 2003-2007 bull market phase, they leveraged gold's under-performance vs. mining cost inputs (notably crude oil) into the crash of 2008 and then a long bear market into 2016. It was logical leverage, and it was rightly negative.

From 2016 to today, a full decade, the HUI/Gold ratio (HGR) is basing and trying to break out. If that breakout happens, strap in for a massive bull move in your favorite gold/silver mining, royalty, and exploration stocks.

Here I'll again note a few of mine. There are plenty of other quality stocks not mentioned here.

Gold Miners: Agnico Eagle Mines Ltd. (AEM:TSX; AEM:NYSE), Newmont Corp. (NEM:NYSE; NEM:ASX; NEM:PNGX), Alamos Gold Inc. (AGI:TSX; AGI:NYSE), B2Gold Corp. (BTO:TSX; BTG:NYSEAMERICAN; B2G:NSX), Coeur Mining Inc. (CDE:TSX; CDE:NYSE), Equinox Gold Corp. (EQX:TSX; EQX:NYSEAMERICAN), to name a few (I currently hold CDE and AGI; the others are on the watch list).

Royalty Stocks: Royal Gold Inc. (RGLD:NASDAQ), Wheaton Precious Metals Corp. (WPM:TSX; WPM:NYSE), Franco-Nevada Corp. (FNV:TSX; FNV:NYSE), Vox Royalty Corp. (VOXR:TSX; VOXR:NASDAQ), Orogen Royalties Inc. (OGN:TSXV; OGNNF:OTCQX), Elemental Royalty Corp. (ELE:TSX; ELE:NASDAQ), Triple Flag Precious Metals Corp. (TFPM:TSX; TFPM:NYSE) (I hold all but TFPM, which is on watch).

Exploration/Development: Skeena Resources Ltd. (SKE:TSX; SKE:NYSE), Rio2 Ltd. (RIO:TSX; RIOFF:OTCQX; RIO:BVL), Dakota Gold Corp. (DC:NYSE American), Snowline Gold Corp. (SGD:TSX; SNWGF:OTCQB), i-80 Gold Corp. (IAU:TSX; IAUX:NYSE) (I hold SKE, SGD.TO with the others, and more, on watch).

That bit of disclosure business behind us, let's move on.

Fast forward to today, the shorter-term daily chart view of the HGR shows a level we've been anticipating in NFTRH. A solid test of the (black) 200-day moving average would be completely normal to an ongoing bull rally theme.

In the gold and silver article linked above, we described the fundamental challenges currently facing gold. But the miners face a different challenge, and that is the relationship of the gold price (their product) to the prices of other commodities (their cost inputs).

The HUI/Gold ratio is intact, implying that factors like the Gold/Oil ratio (GOR) will turn back up, and be favorable for gold mining bottom-line operations. As you can see, this indicator is currently in lockdown.

So we can also view it in reverse. The GOR implies that the HUI/Gold ratio will break down.

Bottom Line

Again, no predictions coming from this writer. Effectively managing not only the gold stock sector, but the whole macro market amalgam requires balance and ongoing perspective checks and adjustments if/as needed.

Gold stocks have done a lot of great corrective work in 2026. There is no sign yet that they may be readying for anything but a bounce. But if/when the macro swings their way, the snap-back to bullishness could be furious. At this politically sensitive and, in my opinion, unstable time, the situation bears close watch from both technical and fundamental perspectives.

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