Platinum & Palladium Project Major Advances into 2026; April 7 – 11th = Pivotal Time.
03-29-25 – “17YC Collisions – 2025 is already validating, confirming, and/or fulfilling a great deal of related 17-Year Cycle analysis. That unique cycle is intimately connected to the magnetic swings in the Sun, Earth and the geomagnetic oscillations between the two… impacting mass emotional & psychological swings on our planet.
While this is not the type of cycle that one can typically use to trade a specific market, it does provide a powerful foundation on which to formulate related expectations.
For the past 2 – 3 years, INSIIDE Track has described why 4Q 2024 (17 years from 4Q 2007) should usher in a major peak in stock indexes and lead to 20 – 50% declines in various stocks in 2025…
INSIIDE Track also described a unique 17-Year Cycle correlation to earth disturbance swarms and volcanic eruption cycles that are most likely to emerge in 2025 – 2027. Recent events – coinciding with the start of a new Natural Year (the time when natural shifts routinely occur) – could be signaling the onset of that expected instability.
A Rus’ by Any Other Name
The 17-Year Cycle impacts many aspects of life… as it well should. That impact is usually heightened when mass psychology is involved – financial, social or geopolitical. That is why it is no surprise it has continued to pinpoint significant shifts involving Russia – in its pre, mid, and post-USSR history…
Gold & Silver remain divergent – from a wave & weekly trend perspective – with Silver stuck in a 6+-month trading range. Both metals fulfilled multi-month cycle highs in late-October ’24 and entered what was projected to be a corrective/consolidation phase in preparation for a new impulse wave higher in 2025.
During the ensuing correction, Gold could only neutralize its weekly uptrend – leaving it in positive territory and on track for new highs (sooner than Silver) in the first half of 2025.
In contrast, Silver turned its weekly trend down – signaling a higher-magnitude peak was in place & a more complex correction should unfold… even though it could rally back to its Oct ‘24 high as part of that…
Silver remains in a ~6-month congestion phase but has neutralized its weekly downtrend twice – ushering in a pivotal time… From a wave perspective, Silver could still be in a larger-magnitude ‘A-B-C’ correction with the Dec ‘24 – March ‘25 rally representing the ‘B’ wave advance of a flat correction (similar highs & lows).
However, the overriding outlook remains that Gold & Silver are in broader bullish trends and their outlook remains positive. Gold & Silver perpetuated a ~7-year low (4Q ‘01) – low (4Q ‘08) – low (4Q ‘15) – low (4Q ‘22) Cycle Progression in October ‘22 and have been projected to undergo a multi-year advance into 2026 or later.
The XAU & HUI remain in weekly uptrends and spiked above their October ’24 peaks – a decisive level (on a weekly close basis) for the 3 – 6 month trend. That reinforces its ongoing, multi-year uptrend. On a 3 – 6 month basis, the XAU remains on track for a future high in mid-June ’25.
The XAU surged to the convergence of monthly resistance and extremes (178.20 – 179.60/XAU) and could set a multi-week top at this time. It rallied for more than half of the latest phase of its 21 – 22-week high-high-low-low-low-(low; Dec 23 – Jan 3, ’25) Cycle Progression, reinforcing the next phase should be a peak – on June 2 – 6, ’25…
Platinum triggered some intriguing – and potentially very bullish – signals on March 27th… This could be one of the ‘golden’ (or is that ‘platinum’) trading opportunities of 2025!
It reinforced the intra-year uptrend – that has been intact since late-January ‘25 – and the prevailing weekly uptrend. It also immediately preceded – by 2 – 3 trading days – the most likely time for the weekly 21 High MAC AND monthly 21 High MAC to turn up. Much of this has already been discussed in the Weekly Re-Lay, so a review of that analysis should be beneficial…
Platinum has been trading in a narrowing range for over 3 years, since its March ‘22 peak spurred a sell-off into its Sept ‘22 low. On a continuous-contract basis, Platinum has not exceeded that March ‘22 high or dropped below that Sept ‘22 low.
It subsequently rallied into a (lower) high in April ‘23 and then dropped to a (higher) low in Nov ‘23. That spurred a rally into a (lower) high in May ‘24 followed by a drop to a (higher) low in Dec ‘24… the time when a more bullish 12 – 18-month cycle began to take hold.
Following that late-Dec ‘24 low, Platinum rallied and turned its weekly trend up – confirming a multi-month bottom while helping to pinpoint the mid-Feb ‘25 peak (an initial peak that often occurs as the weekly trend is turning up).
That led to a multi-week reactive sell-off with Platinum twice neutralizing its weekly uptrend while dropping into late-Feb ‘25. That was/is the ideal setup for a secondary (wave ‘2’) low and the onset of a more dynamic and extended advance…
A key indicator is poised to corroborate that outlook. The weekly 21 MAC has been trending down – even as Platinum mainly trades within that channel – but is poised to flatten and turn higher in April, due to the declining, inversely-correlated weekly 21 High & Low MARCs…
Similarly, Platinum is on the cusp of turning its monthly 21 High MAC up… for the first time since October ‘23. It would only take a rally above 1036.9/PLN – during the month of April ‘25 – to turn that 21 High MAC up and reinforce the over-arching new impulse wave that began in Dec ‘24.
Reinforcing the significance of that level, the monthly 21 High MAC for April ‘25 is shaping up to come into play around 1036/PLN as well.
If Platinum rallies into late-April ‘25, as is currently expected, and can give a monthly close above that 21 High MAC (after turning it up), it would generate a very bullish confirmation signal that would likely reverberate for 6 – 12 months to follow.
On a broader basis, Platinum could rally into 2026 – a 50% rebound in time (12 years down/6 years up) and the latest phase of a ~5-year high (2011) – high (2016) – high (2021) – (high; 2026) Cycle Progression that parallels the Silver outlook.
With Platinum closing the week at 996/PLN, it is a good place for traders to be adding to long positions (down to ~960/PLN) and looking for an initial surge into late-April/early-May ‘25…
Palladium remains above its August ‘24 low and in a constructive weekly trend pattern. It initially surged into late-January and turned its weekly trend up – a lagging indicator that often times an initial high and spurs a multi-week reactive sell-off.
That led to a multi-week decline, during which Palladium twice neutralized – but has not turned down – its prevailing weekly uptrend. That portends a rally to new intra-year highs… at the very least. Its weekly 21 MAC is also nearing the time (April 7 – 11, ‘25) when a reversal higher would become much easier to achieve…
That is due to the falling – but inversely-correlated – weekly 21 MARC during the current 3-week period. On April 7th, Palladium would only need to trade above 1002.5/PAM to turn the direction of the weekly 21 High MAC up. If it can pair that with a weekly close above the 21 High MAC (~1012/PAM in the coming week and likely lower on April 7 – 11th), that would provide a bullish 21 MAC signal.
On a longer-term basis, Palladium is expected to enter a new bull market in 2025 and stretch that into 3Q 2026 – when the next multi-year peak appears most likely. A peak in 3Q ‘26 would fulfill a ~5.25-year low-low-low-high-(high) Cycle Progression as well as a .618 rebound in time (39-month decline followed by 24-month rally). An intervening peak in Aug/Sept 2025 would reinforce that scenario.”
3-26-25 – “This period – usually from March 20 to April 19/20th – marks a very important transition period linked to various means of measuring time with physical (natural), celestial (astronomy), metaphysical (astrology) and supernatural (Jewish & Christian commemorations) implications and influences.
It is an annual time to watch for signs of ‘change’ on many levels.
In many ways, April 19/20th acts like a deadline for determining what to expect in the coming (Natural) year… Silver remains in a ~6-month trading range… with the prevailing potential for a retest of its December ’24 low.”
Refer to latest Weekly Re-Lay & INSIIDE Track publications for additional details and/or related trading strategies.