I think we are way way over done on fits and starts. We haven’t seen such Chinese water torture in many many years. This gold recovery that started in late 2015 is the worst three years of fits and starts in my memory.
The first half of 2016 was phenomenal. $2 miners going to $22 and better. The Stock Market 2015 into 2016 was topping and rolling over. It was a no brainer very late correction starting. Then TPTB wheeled out Trump with tons of psychological positive news and they bought three more boom years for them and three more years of annoying us.
Check out dow chart rolling over 2015 to 2016.
https://finviz.com/futures_charts.ashx?t=INDICES&p=m1