Precious metals have been taking a hit lately, and that has reflected on the miners. Every stock in the HUI Gold Bugs index has traded below its 10 - , 50 - and 200 - day moving averages for the past two days, and on both days more than a third of the stocks have reached 52 - week lows. In the history of the index, this has occurred on 9 other days, clustered in four time frames (early September 2008, mid - October 2008, mid - May 2012 and late October 2014). They all occurred within several days of 10% rallies in HUI and other indexes of gold miners. They should be getting a reprieve soon, with any heavy selling in the coming day(s) likely to be exhaustive and quickly reversed.