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Silver, Gold and the PGMs Close Green While Stocks and Crude Roll Over

Monday, June 29, 2026

The TL;DR

With Brad Hoppmann

The Supercycle Score is the inverse of the dollar.

Scoreboard

As of the 6/26 close (vs 6/25, the prior trading day). Dot color = Golden Thread inflection: green = CCI rising above both its prior reading and its 14-day average; red = falling below both; yellow = mixed. All 12 CCIs computed fresh through the 6/26 close.

A week ago this board was a wall of red. Friday it is six green, three yellow, three red, and the three reds are the US dollar, the Nasdaq and the S&P. For the first time this stretch the only things rolling over are the dollar and the paper market, while the hard-asset complex (gold, the PGMs, the grains, nat gas) has turned up. Silver and copper are the stragglers (yellow: rising, still below their 14-day averages); crude is the lone commodity going the wrong way, giving back a one-day spike rather than breaking trend. Metal up, paper down, dollar cracking: this is what the thesis looks like when it starts to breathe.

For most of June the board moved as one animal. When the dollar pressed, everything real sold; when the dollar eased, everything bounced together. Friday it stopped moving as one animal. The metals broke ranks with the tape. Palladium closed up 2.42%, platinum 1.93%, silver 1.76%, gold 1.13% (the entire precious-and-platinum-group complex green), and copper tacked on 0.95%. And while all of that was happening, the Nasdaq fell 1.38%, the S&P gave back 0.72%, and crude dropped 3.50%. The dollar barely moved. Six things up, six down, and the line between them was not risk-on versus risk-off. It was hard assets on one side and paper on the other.

That distinction is the whole ballgame. A relief bounce, the kind we got Thursday, lifts everything at once, stocks and metals together, because it is just the dollar taking a breather and the tide coming back in for everybody. What happened Friday is different. The metals went up without the stock market. They went up on a day the Nasdaq was falling. That is not the tide coming in; that is the metals starting to march to their own drummer, which is exactly what the start of a supercycle leg is supposed to look like: real assets bid for their own reasons while the paper market, still tethered to the dollar and the rate story, wobbles.

Now the discipline, because this is one day and the CCIs still tell you where we have been. Silver's 20-day CCI is −133, copper's −111, the S&P's −129: washed-out readings, and Friday's green in the metals registers as an inflection up off the floor, not a trend that has been running. Six of the twelve bars are green precisely because they are turning up from a capitulation base, the highest-information moment the Golden Thread is built to catch and also the moment most likely to fake you out. Rogers would tell you the tell is not the one green day; it is the character of the day: metal decoupling from paper. The Turtle would tell you not to chase the +2.4% in palladium, but to mark the level and let the next two sessions confirm. What to watch: whether the dollar's roll-over continues (its CCI just went red while its price sits at 95% of the range, pinned but cracking), and whether the metals can hold their green the next time the stock market has a bad day. One decoupling is a hint. Two is a trend.

Here is where we are on the clock. For six weeks the story has been a strong dollar holding the whole real-asset complex underwater while the long supercycle waits beneath the surface: the business-cycle lull sitting on top of the secular uptrend. Thursday gave us the first crack, a hot inflation print the dollar could not rally on. Friday gave us the second, and it is the more important of the two: the metals went up while stocks went down. That decoupling is the single most thesis-relevant thing this board has printed all month, because it says the bid under gold, silver and the PGMs is no longer just "the dollar eased, everything bounced." It is a bid for hard assets as hard assets, showing up on a day the paper market was being sold. The line this issue defends: a debasing-dollar supercycle announces itself not when commodities bounce with stocks, but when commodities rise without them, and Friday, for the first time this cycle, the metals climbed on a down day for the tape. The dollar is still pinned at 95% of its range; the score still reads a Ludicrous 5. But the level is the lagging indicator now. The momentum, the dollar's own CCI rolling red while six commodities turn green, is the leading one. Watch the second down-day for stocks. If the metals hold their green through it, the lull is ending.

2yr 4.07%, 10yr 4.38%, 30yr 4.87%; 2s10s slope +31 bps, positively sloped and un-inverted (6/26 close). Day over day the front and belly kept easing: 2yr down 2 bp (4.09 to 4.07), 10yr down 2 bp (4.40 to 4.38), the long bond up a single bp to 4.87. Nothing violent; the rate-cut bid simply held its ground into the weekend. The bond market is still pricing a Fed that eventually cuts into a slowdown rather than one that hikes into hot inflation, the same posture that let the dollar go flat on Friday instead of rallying. Events: the FOMC is behind us (June 17, held 3.50 to 3.75% for a fourth straight meeting; medium-confidence), and the calendar now runs into a holiday-shortened week: July 4 falls on a Saturday in 2026, so markets observe Friday, July 3 (closed or early-close), which pulls the June jobs report and the next data forward or back around the holiday. (Curve high-confidence per the FMP Treasury feed; event timing medium-confidence.)

The most recent regular CFTC Commitments of Traders printed Friday, June 26 (about 3:30pm ET), reflecting positioning as of Tuesday, June 23, the snapshot that captures the back end of last week's flush and the Thursday relief bounce. The next release is the one to watch for whether the metals' Friday decoupling shows up as real spec buying, but its timing is likely shifted by the July 4 holiday week (the CFTC typically delays a day around federal holidays). The CFTC feed is off our current plan, so we flag the calendar rather than the numbers. The question the next COT answers: when silver and the PGMs climbed Friday while stocks fell, was that big specs adding to hard-asset longs, or just short-covering into thin pre-holiday liquidity? (Timing medium-confidence.)

Right now, every night up and down our stretch of beach, the loggerheads are coming ashore. June and July is the heart of nesting season on the Space Coast. The Archie Carr refuge down by Melbourne Beach is the second-biggest loggerhead nesting ground on the whole planet, and Brevard counted better than fifty thousand nests last year. I think about those turtles when the market gets loud. A mama loggerhead hauls herself up the same dark beach her own mother used, digs the nest, and goes back to the water, and she does it on a clock that does not care one bit what the tide tourists are doing fifty feet up the sand with their flashlights and their coolers. She is running on a thirty-year cycle. A hatchling that scrambles out this August will not come back to lay her own eggs until somewhere around 2055. That is the cycle that matters. Everything else on that beach is weather.

The metals did a turtle thing on Friday. The stock market, the loud crowd with the flashlights, had itself a bad day, Nasdaq down better than a percent, and the metals just kept hauling up the beach anyway. Gold, silver, platinum, palladium, all green while the paper market sold off. They were not following the crowd; they were on their own clock. Now flip on the television and you will get the usual two stations. Coke-TV says the stock pullback means the whole rally is tired and you should sit tight. Pepsi-TV says see, this is the recession finally biting. Neither one walks down to the dark end of the beach where the actual nesting is happening, where hard assets quietly climbed on a day they had every excuse to fall.

Out here we do not argue with the tourists. We know the difference between the weather and the cycle. The dollar is still standing up there at the top of the dunes hollering that it is in charge, pinned at ninety-five percent of its range, loud as ever, but its own legs just buckled a little, the way a thing does right before it has to lumber back down to the water. One turtle up the beach is a turtle. When the whole complex starts coming ashore on its own clock and ignoring the crowd, that is the season turning. Friday was a turtle. Watch for the next one.

The metals climbed on a down day for stocks, the dollar is loud but its legs buckled, and the score still reads a ludicrous 5: that is the level lagging while the momentum leads. Stay patient and watch the second decoupling, whether the metals hold their green the next time the tape has a bad day. Brad

Brad Hoppmann

Editor · Supercycle Trader

25-year financial-publishing veteran; founder of the supercycletrader.com hub.

The Supercycle Score is the inverse of the dollar. A falling dollar lifts everything priced in dollars, so the score measures how weak the dollar is: its place in its trailing 52-week range, flipped. Dollar near its 1-year low gives a score near 100 (tailwind); near its 1-year high gives a score near 0 (headwind). Friday UUP closed 28.46 in a 26.395 to 28.5599 band, about 95.4% of range, so the score reads 5, up from 4. "Ludicrous Headwind" is the 2 to 5 tier; a 1 would read "They've Gone to Plaid." The level is pinned near the top; the dollar's own 20-day CCI has rolled to red.

Data sources: the Board via Massive Market Data daily ETF-proxy quotes (6/26 close vs 6/25 prior trading day); all 12 CCI bars computed fresh from Massive daily OHLC through the 6/26 close; live gold cross-check via FMP (GCUSD) and Crypto.com (GC Live). Treasury curve via FMP (6/26). Supercycle Score = inverse of the US dollar (UUP 52-week range; low 26.395 / high 28.5599 / close 28.46 = 95.4% of range). Built 2026-06-29; data reflects the Friday 2026-06-26 close.