The Final Reset is Here! Gold & Silver Prices Will Soar DRAMATICALLY Soon - Chris Vermeulen
The Final Reset is Here! Gold & Silver Prices Will Soar DRAMATICALLY Soon - Chris Vermeulen
Money Sense: 8-12-2025
Chris Vermeulen views the current gold setup as resembling 2007. Back then, stocks reached a marginal new high, while gold quietly began to outperform.
When equities rolled over, gold surged—first clearing a 20% target, then stretching to a 37% rally before cooling off. Over the past two decades, gold has returned 616% compared to the S&P 500’s 421%.
That’s not a minor gap—it suggests a more profound shift in market leadership. Today, Vermeulen sees a bull flag pattern forming in gold, with an initial target of $3,700 and a secondary target of $4,100.
And unlike the five-month run in 2007, he thinks this move could play out in just two to three months. Once it breaks, he expects momentum to feed on itself—emotional buying, crowded trades, and acceleration.
In the short term, gold has taken a hit. It’s posted its sharpest drop in three months as traders dial back bets on a bullion import tariff and optimism over a potential Ukraine–Russia ceasefire trims safe-haven demand.
That followed a brief rally on Friday, which fizzled when the Trump administration left its tariff stance unclear. Vermeulen notes that the “smart money” often moves into miners first. Gold producers are inherently leveraged—a 1% rise in gold can boost profits by 5–8%, and individual mining stocks can swing 20–30% in a single day.
The current market is proving the point. GDX just recorded its best quarter ever, fueled by record gold prices in Q2 2025. In the last three sessions alone, gold stocks rose 4.7%, 2.8%, and 1.6%, while gold itself barely budged.
That’s 33.7x upside leverage—precisely the kind of outperformance that has historically signaled the early stages of a significant gold run. Silver’s rally just hit a pause, but the broader trend still looks bullish.
Chris Vermeulen notes that silver’s price action is far noisier than gold’s. It’s prone to sharp swings — 10% or even 20% pullbacks are normal — so the only way to catch the real move is to take a position and sit through the turbulence.
This week, silver ran into selling pressure near $38.10, snapping a six-day winning streak during Asian trading on Monday. The metal opened last week at $36.96 and closed at $38.26, up nearly 3% and holding close to its highest levels in 13 years.
The larger trend, Vermeulen says, is still intact: higher highs and higher lows. If gold breaks out, silver will likely follow. The next technical target is around $40.80. Even so, gold’s chart is cleaner, with more upside potential — roughly 18% versus silver’s 6%, unless silver overshoots its current range.
That makes gold the higher-probability trade for now. Silver slightly outperformed gold last week — gold was up about 1% — but gold stole the spotlight after spiking to $3,534 per ounce on news that the United States planned to impose tariffs on imported gold bars, shaking up the market.