PMs and especially juniors are a treacherous area. Sometimes gold is a safe haven, other times the US dollar is the safe haven - in which case gold goes down. That seems to be the current sentiment.

The juniors are liquidity-trapped. I can usually figure out when they should be sold, but it isn't always possible to do without taking a major hit (hard to sell a ten cent stock when the best bid is 6 cents).

These things are great fun when they're working, but otherwise - not so much. I'm seriously thinking about going back to trading tech stocks next year.