Since the turn of the century, every major up-leg in the mining space began during or after a -20% decline in the stock market. The S&P 500 is now down nearly 22% year to date, and the Nasdaq is faring even worse, plummeting over 29% this year. This inversely presents huge bullish tailwinds for the entire precious metals complex – as they are viewed as one of the most reliable hedges against economic risk, stagflation and recession.
There were fortunes made by contrarian speculators that placed early investments into a basket of high-risk/reward quality precious metals juniors before PM bull moves took place in 2000-2003, 2005-2007, 2008-2012, 2016, 2018, and 2020. During the 2005-2007 miner bull-run, the huge gains harvested from my junior miner portfolio provided me enough capital quit a dead-end job and travel the globe for the next five years.