If gold simply 'hangs in there', the slam dunk next 12 months are gold stocks due to their massive cash flows. Yet they've never been cheaper!
The XAU-Gold ratio (~15) is lower than the low of 2000 (~17) when the long bear market from 1980 to 2000 bottomed. The market hates gold stocks more than at the end of a 20-yr bear market... UNREAL.
Technically, Stewart Thompson has noted the cup-and-handle formation of GDX on the weekly chart, the ETF for major gold producers. He has a 100 price target, just under double current levels.