After triggering a conventional ‘buy’ signal at the end of 2022, this vehicle has gone nowhere as it continues to toy with the green line. If this were a Warner Brothers cartoon, Daffy Duck would stick a bottle rocket up GDXJ’s posterior to get things going. Perhaps if we visualize this, something will happen. In the meantime, we’ll have to accept the fact that GDXJ is bound to move less energetically than gold futures because, no matter how high bullion contracts go, someone will still have to labor mightily to dig gold out of the ground.