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GDXJ

GDXJ

VanEck Junior Gold Miners ETF

ETFsPCXUSD-26.7% from ATH
Current Price

$114.44

Drawdown from ATH

-26.7%

Last Updated

Jun 17, 2026

Dipsern Grade90d

C

Marginal

Graded against GDXJ's own history at this drawdown — not the market's.

What it means: GDXJ's own history does not strongly favor buying at this level yet.

What to do: Consider watching and waiting for a deeper dip or a higher grade.

Median 90-Day Return
Historical Win Rate
Last 30 days+1.13%
May 5Jun 16
About GDXJ

VanEck Junior Gold Miners ETF

The fund normally invests at least 80% of its total assets in securities that comprise the index. The index includes companies that generate at least 50% of their revenues from gold and/or silver mining/royalties/streaming or have mining projects with the potential to generate at least 50% of their revenues from gold and/or silver when developed. It is non-diversified.

The reading

How Dipsern reads GDXJ right now.

Three plain-English paragraphs — current state, historical base rate, and interpretation — so you walk away with context, not a dashboard.

Snapshot

How is GDXJ doing right now?

In plain terms: GDXJ is 26.7% below its highest-ever price. Dipsern checks every past time it was this far down and grades how the next 90 days usually went.

GDXJ (VanEck Junior Gold Miners ETF) is 26.7% below its historical peak. Tape reads in a deep drawdown, with the last trade at $114.44. Deep drawdowns shift the conversation from "is this a buy" to "what's broken". Sometimes it's macro. Sometimes it's the asset itself. Dipsern's data tells you which one history rewarded.

Historical base rate

What history says at this drawdown

History at this drawdown level is well-populated for GDXJ — 73 confirmed observations in the 30%-to-25% band. The Dipsern engine uses these to compute a rolling median rather than a mean, because medians are robust to the kind of fat tails you find in etfs return distributions. The win rate (% of episodes that closed positive after 90 days) is shown in the segments table below.

Interpretation

What this means for GDXJ

For broad-index ETFs the historical base rate is exceptionally stable; for narrow thematic ETFs (e.g., ARKK, cannabis, leveraged), drawdowns are deeper and the sample size at each band is smaller. Deep drawdowns require a story for why this time isn't different. The Dipsern signal can tell you what historically happened next; it can't tell you whether the current setup matches the historical analog.

Comparable signals

Other ETFs at similar drawdown levels

Five tickers closest to GDXJ's distance from all-time high. Same category, one tap away.

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Historical depth

Sample sizes by drawdown band

Dipsern segments the full drawdown range into 20 equal-width bands. The table shows the number of confirmed historical observations in each band for GDXJ. Median forward returns, win rates, and prediction errors are available in the full analysis.

Drawdown BandObservationsMedian ReturnWin Rate
-90% to -85%162
-85% to -80%319
-80% to -75%884
-75% to -70%840
-70% to -65%483
-65% to -60%260
-60% to -55%114
-55% to -50%89
-50% to -45%127
-45% to -40%67
-40% to -35%63
-35% to -30%58
Methodology

Every grade is reproducible.

We segment 40+ years of GDXJ's price history into 20 equal-width drawdown bands and compute forward median returns, win rates, and prediction error per band. No look-ahead bias. Pure NumPy. Open math, gated numbers.

Years of history

40+

Drawdown bands

20

Look-ahead bias

None

Data sources

4

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Signal computed Jun 17, 2026 using default parameters (90-day return period, 20 segments, 0.95 decay). Data sourced from Yahoo Finance, Binance, CoinGecko, and Steam Market.