The document discusses momentum trading strategies and identifies several gold stocks exhibiting strong price momentum over the last 12 months. Momentum investing involves buying stocks that have outperformed the market and are expected to continue doing so based on factors driving their recent performance. The stocks highlighted have seen total returns rise the fastest in the last year: Rupert Resources and K92 Mining based in Canada and Papua New Guinea respectively, along with US-based Hecla Mining and Coeur Mining. Tools like trend lines are used to define price trends and guide momentum traders' buy and sell decisions. However, momentum strategies carry risks of unexpected price reversals.
2. Momentum & Its Key Takeaways.
Basics of Momentum Trading.
Gold Stock With The Most Momentum.
Momentum Tools.
Risk To Momentum Trading.
3. • Momentum, finance, refers to the capacity for a price trend to
sustain itself going forward.
• Strong momentum can continue in an upward or downward
trend, which can be confirmed by changes in trading volume
and other technical indicators.
• Momentum investing is a trading strategy in which investors
buy securities that are rising and sell them when they look to
have peaked.
• Momentum trading therefore describes a herding strategy,
following others; but price trends are never guaranteed in the
future.
4. Investors can use momentum as a trading technique that seeks to profit off
the herding behavior of market psychology.
Rather than "buy low, sell high", momentum trading follows a strategy of "buy high,
sell higher". Once a momentum trader sees acceleration in a stock's price, earnings or
revenues, the trader will often take a long or short position in the stock in the hope that
its momentum will continue in either an upward or downward direction.
This strategy relies on short-term movements in a stock's price rather
than fundamental value.
When applied, an investor can buy or sell based on the strength of the trends in an
asset's price.
If a trader wants to use a momentum-based strategy, he takes a long position in a
stock or asset that has been trending up.
If the stock is trending down, he takes a short position.
Instead of the traditional philosophy of trading—buy low, sell high—momentum
investing seeks to sell low and buy lower, or buy high and sell higher. Instead of
identifying the continuation or reversal pattern, momentum investors focus on the
trend created by the most recent price break.
5. Momentum investing is a factor-based investing strategy that
involves investing in a stock whose price has risen faster
than the market as a whole.
Momentum investors believe that stocks that have
outperformed the market will often continue to do so because
the factors that caused them to outperform will not suddenly
disappear.
In addition, other investors, seeking to benefit from the
stock's outperformance, will often purchase the stock, further
bidding its price higher and pushing the stock higher still.
These are the stocks that had the highest total return over
the last 12 months.
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7. RUPERT RESOURCES LTD.
Rupert Resources is a Canada-based gold mining company
focused on the exploration and production of precious and
base metals.
The company's main mining operations are located in
Finland, with a primary focus on the Pahtavaara Project in
the Central Lapland Greenstone Belt.
However, it also has other properties in central Finland and
Canada.
Rupert also has shares that trade OTC in the U.S. under the
ticker symbol RUPRF.
8. HECLA MINING CO.
Hecla Mining is a precious metals company engaged in the
discovery, acquisition, development, and production of gold,
silver, and associated base metals.
The company is the largest silver producer in the U.S. It
operates the Greens Creek and Lucky Friday mines in the
U.S., and the Casa Berardi mine in Canada.
The company also owns a number of exploration and pre-
development projects throughout North America.
Hecla announced on April 8, 2021, preliminary production
results for Q1 2021, the three-month period ended March 31,
2021.
Gold production decreased 12% while silver production
increased 7%, compared to the same quarter a year ago
9. K92 MINING INC.
K92 Mining is a Canada-based precious metals producer.
The company owns and operates the high-grade, low-cost
underground Kainantu Gold Mine in the Eastern Highlands
province of Papua New Guinea.
K92 also engages in exploration projects near its mine and
in other parts of the region and has shares that trade OTC in
the U.S. under the ticker symbol KNTNF.
10. COEUR MINING INC.
Coeur Mining is a diversified precious metals producer with five operations throughout
North America.
Its operations include:
The Palmarejo silver-gold complex in Mexico;
The Rochester silver-gold mine in Nevada;
The Kensington gold mine in Alaska; the Wharf gold mine in South Dakota; and
The Silvertip silver-zinc-lead mine in Canada.
The company also owns interests in a number of precious metals exploration projects.
On April 28, 2021, Coeur announced financial results for its Q1 2021, the three-month
period ended March 31, 2021.
The company reported net income of $2.1 million, a significant turnaround from the
year-ago quarter's net loss of $11.9 million. Revenue for the quarter rose 16.7%.
11. Some tools for momentum investors help to define the trend, such as
the trend line.
A trend line is a line drawn from the high price to the low price, or vice
versa, over a given time period.
If the line is up, the trend is up and the momentum investor buys the
stock.
If the trend line is down, the trend is down and the momentum investor
sells the stock.
In this way, momentum investing is purely a technical indicator.
Though the "momentum" can refer to fundamental measures of
performance, such as revenue and earnings, it is most commonly used
in reference to historical asset prices as a technical indicator.
12. Just like any other trading style, there are risks that come
with momentum trading.
By using this technique, you should know that you are trading
on the backs of other people in the market, and price trends
are never guaranteed.
And always be prepared for unexpected reversals or
corrections that take place.
This can happen because of unexpected news or changes in
investor sentiment in the market.