{"id":4313,"date":"2015-02-11T10:14:42","date_gmt":"2015-02-11T15:14:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.morpheustrading.com\/blog\/?p=4313"},"modified":"2015-03-05T07:03:32","modified_gmt":"2015-03-05T12:03:32","slug":"gdxj-gold-miners-etf","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/morpheustrading.com\/blog\/gdxj-gold-miners-etf\/","title":{"rendered":"Why Ride The Roller Coaster When You Can Buy A Gold ETF?"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Wildcat @ Hersheypark<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

I grew up in York, Pennsylvania, which is only about a thirty minute drive to Hershey, home of America’s favorite chocolates.<\/p>\n

As a teenager, I used to love visiting Hersheypark<\/a>, a pretty cool amusement park on the Hershey grounds, specifically to ride the roller coasters.<\/p>\n

As a middle-aged adult with responsibilities, I rarely get the pleasure\u00a0to visit Hersheypark these days, but lately I’ve been getting plenty of thrills and chills from the stock market alone.<\/p>\n

Lately, the\u00a0S&P 500 Index has been a roller coaster with lots of hills and valleys, but ultimately looping back around to the starting point\u00a0(though may soon break out above the range if current price holds).<\/p>\n

Although day to day volatility has been pretty substantial in the S&P 500, the benchmark index has merely been oscillating up and down in a wide, sideways range over the course of several months:<\/p>\n

\"$SPY<\/p>\n

When stocks are so indecisive on a day to day basis, it may be a decent market environment for daytraders who exit all their positions by every day’s close.<\/p>\n

But it has admittedly been a challenging environment for trend traders who typically hold stocks for weeks to months.<\/p>\n

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