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Gold Dashboard — guide & definitions

A decision-support tool for swing positions in gold-linked and anchored stocks. It answers two questions: when is a stock unusually cheap against the thing that drives it (a buy zone), and when has it run unusually far ahead (a sell zone). Everything on it was tested against up to 20 years of history before it earned a place; the failed ideas are documented in the project repository and deliberately absent here.

The core signal: the z-score

Every stock here has an anchor — the asset that statistically drives it (gold for the miners and royalty companies, bitcoin for COIN, the uranium fund URA for UEC, sector funds for MET and ZION). The z-score measures how far the stock has drifted from its normal relationship with that anchor, in standard deviations, using the last 250 trading days.

BUY ZONE  z at or below the entry threshold
The stock is lagging its anchor by an unusual amount. Historically these readings preceded above-average gains over the following 1–3 months. It is a zone of better odds, not a guarantee — roughly 4 in 10 buy-zone entries still lost in testing.
SELL ZONE  z at or above the threshold
The stock has run ahead of its anchor. Not a crash warning: in twenty years of testing, sell-zone readings preceded below-average gains, not losses. It marks the expensive end of the stock's normal range.
NEUTRAL
Inside the normal band. Nothing to do.
What the z-score cannot see: it only measures the stock relative to its anchor. If gold itself falls 25%, every gold stock falls with it and the z stays calm — that risk is watched separately by the froth gauge below. It also cannot read news: dilution, mine problems, or lawsuits can make "cheap" readings deserved.

Gold froth watch

Gold's stretch above its own 200-day average, ranked against 20 years of history. This is the one gold-wide warning that tested well: readings at or above the 99th percentile (118 days in 20 years) preceded flat-to-negative gold over the following 1–6 months. The January 2026 top scored 100.0 on this gauge on its exact peak day.

Bitcoin gets no such alarm on purpose. The same test on bitcoin showed its extremes kept extending (+52% average six months after 99th-percentile readings). The Bitcoin section shows the gauge for context only.

Reading the charts

ElementMeaning
Green / red bandsPeriods the stock was in its buy / sell zone
Solid dark line at 0%The zero line on family charts — above it, up since the window began
Dashed red line + dateAll-time high (drawn when within reach; always stated in the card text)
Thin dashed lines "high / low"The highest and lowest close within the visible range
Dashed line "your stop"12% below your average cost, once you've entered a position
1d · 5d · 2wk ranges30-minute bars, refreshed at each server run
1mo – 1y rangesDaily closing prices

Tabs, chips and ranges

All / My stocks / Gold / Bitcoin / …
Pages. My stocks shows only names you've entered a position for. Family pages show that group's overlay chart, its stocks, and its watch section.
Name chips
Tap to hide or show a stock everywhere. Struck-through = hidden.
Range chips
Chart window for every chart at once.

All choices persist in this browser and affect nobody else.

Your position & the ledger

Two ways to track a holding, both stored only in your browser — never on the server:

The ledger uses average-cost accounting: buys raise your share count and blend your average cost; a sell realizes gain or loss against that average. Cards show shares, average cost, value, unrealized and realized P&L; the portfolio card at the top sums every position, with realized gains broken out.

Moving your data between devices

Alerts

Delivered by the free ntfy app. Alerts fire on changes, never repeat daily, so silence means all quiet.

AlertWhen
📈 Buy zoneAny watched stock enters its buy zone
📉 Sell zoneA stock you hold enters its sell zone
⚡ Provisional (~3:30pm ET)A zone change looks likely on intraday prices — the 4:30 run confirms or cancels
👀 Gold closing inGold stretch crosses the 95th percentile
🚨 Gold frothCrosses the 99th — the January-2026-top zone
🚨 Stop breachOwner's position breaks its stop (checked every 5 minutes)
⚠️ Pipeline problemThe data feed broke — don't trust the page until cleared
✅ Monthly heartbeat1st of the month: proof the system is alive

The public topic shown on the dashboard carries market signals only — never anyone's positions. Subscribe in the ntfy app with that topic name.

Data & schedule

The evidence, briefly

Everything above survived adversarial backtesting on 2006–2026 data; these did not, and were removed: a six-method composite scoring system (lost to buy-and-hold in 24 of 24 configurations), mechanical stop-losses as a signal (cost 255 points of return; kept only as disaster insurance), a sell-and-rebuy "ratchet" (0 of 108 configurations), moving-average trend gates and macro-regime gates (predicted nothing, or the opposite). One honest limit applies to all of it: the evidence comes from a period in which gold mostly rose. Signals are decision support — the decisions, and the results, are yours.

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