One Copper Stock Powers Higher
Source: Michael Ballanger 03/07/2025
Michael Ballanger of GGM Advisory Inc. shares his thoughts on the current state of the market and takes a look at one of his favorite copper stocks.
The U.S. dollar Index futures are lower by 0.27% to 103.750, with the 10-year yield down 1.59% to 4.214% and the 30-year yield down 0.96% to 4.535%.
Gold (-0.51), silver (-1.98%) %), and copper (-2.17%) are down, but oil (+0.98%) is up.
The DJIA futures (-0.28%) are down 119.8 points; the S&P 500 futures (-0.19%) are down 11.0 points; but the NASDAQ 100 futures (+0.20%) are higher by 39.75 points.
Risk barometer Bitcoin is down 0.52% to $89,510.
Stocks
Stocks were lower yesterday across the board, with the NASDAQ and the Mag Seven all sharply lower as the larger portfolios and ETFs scrambled for liquidity.
There are currently 530 ETFs that hold NVidia Corp. (NVDA:US) shares in various sizes and with varying degrees of leverage.
With NVDA:US closing below its 200-dma, one must remember that this company led all markets higher for most of the past two and one-half years, dragging billions of CAPEX dollars into the “artificial intelligence” space.
Likewise, one could surmise that it will also be the downside leader as investors move to de-leverage AI-centric portfolios and ETFs.
With that in mind, it is of note that the ETF for the S&P 500 (SPY:US) has not yet broken below its 200-dma which resides at $569.28 a mere $3.43 lower than the Thursday close.
Since this is a “jobs” Friday with the NFP Report at 8:30 am, it is my conviction that by later this afternoon traders will ignore the number and instead choose the safety of the sidelines in order to sleep restfully over the weekend.
In the GGMA 2025 Trading Account:
- Buy 25 contracts SPY April $550 puts at $7.00
They closed at $7.89 yesterday but I look for a modest intraday uptick in the futures that will allow for a “buy the dip” entry point.
Gold
Gold has been bouncing around either side of unchanged until a few minutes ago after the NFP report was “in line” with expectation but with minor downward revisions to earlier reported numbers. It is now down almost $15.00. As I have been opining for the past two weeks, gold looks ready to correct with sell signals in all three metrics — MACD, MFI, and TRIX — but with RSI in the 50s down from the high 70s in early February, perhaps the bulk of the pullback was completed last week with the dip to $2,844.10. It has since recovered 50% of the drop from the record high and looks to be trying to find a bottom.
Whether or not traders elect to move to the sidelines before the pit session closes at 1:30 pm is a toss-up but since I do not want to be going into the weekend holding hedges on a commodity right in the midst of a powerful bull market, I will try to cover by 1:30 pm..
In the GGMA 2025 Trading Account:
- Sell 25 puts GLD April $265 at $4.80
If gold is flat or higher by the close of the pit session at 1:30 EST, sell the position “at market.”
PDAC
PDAC ended at noon Wednesday, and I held fast to my determination to avoid the “monkey show” that has typified the largest mining conference in the world. Not only is it a long commute from Port Perry, I have found it to be a marketing contest where the loudest, most colorful booths manned by the most attractive females handing out the most keychains win the prize.
All of the feedback thus far from PDAC 2025 is that it was relatively well-attended but with many more industry attendees than retail attendees, which is a good sign for the junior resource companies with quality projects. The problem with this industry is that there are too many companies with sub-standard projects being showcased by state-of-the-art marketing programs that utilize all sorts of social media and high-technology applications that reach millions of users with the pressing of a button. The average investor finds it impossible to differentiate between the fake and real jewelry, which means that the “VVS1″ diamonds are being valued the same as “bort” because the settings tend to distract from the cut, clarity, color, and carat value of the stone.
Getchell Gold Corp. (GTCH:CSE; GGLDF:OTCQB) has a “VVS1″-style project in Nevada valued at over US$470 on an after-tax, fully-discounted basis versus a market cap of US$32 million. Over a ten-year mine life, the CAPEX gets recovered in 3.1 years which means that it will generate around $47 million per year for seven more years.
Most producers trade at 3-5 times pre-tax cash flow so it is fairly easy to see how Getchell should be valued at US$141-235 million (US$0.68-1.14 per share). With a USD share price at $0.1520, that is a fourfold to sevenfold lift from current levels.
Most importantly, that lift is without risk. Furthermore, catalysts to increasing those valuation metrics include a) rising gold prices and b) expanded resource size with more drilling. Now that is a “VVS1″ diamond that is being treated like “bort.”
Fitzroy Minerals Inc. (FTZ:TSX.V; FTZFF:OTCQB) will shortly close the Ptolemy Mining acquisition that will bring the Buen Retiro concessions “over the wall” after which the test results from Caballos will probably be back from the lab.
The stock is trading at a level just under the February 14 high of CA$0.235, and once it clears that level, a test of the November highs at CA$0.30 is a “wash.”
There are “big eyes” on FTZ/FTZFF right now and they are growing more intense by the day. A “must- own” proposition…
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