Gold Editorials & Commentary

Investors in the bitcoin and cryptomarkets are running scared as prices continued to plunge yesterday before a bounce today. Top altcoins lost 50% of their value on Monday, bringing the total value wiped off the crypto market  in 24 hours to over $60 billion.

Monday’s monster stock selloff is exhibit A for why I frequently recommend a 10 percent weighting in gold, with 5 percent in bullion and jewelry, the other 5 percent in high-quality gold stocks, mutual funds and ETFs.

In terms of time, a short-term secondary low is due for gold here in the current timeframe, originally projected for the February 7th date, but with the normal plus or minus variance of a day or two in either direction. The current decline comes as a result of the...

The appointment of Jerome Powell as new Fed chair is likely the catalyst that ushers in a multi-decade era of rising inflation and soaring gold stocks. I’ve announced a long term target for GDX of $15,000. That really isn’t very high… given the strong inflation...

On Janet Yellen’s last day as Fed boss the markets suffered their worst percentage loss in 20-months.  Yesterday, on Jerome Powell’s first day as Fed Chairman, the VIX spiked by its largest amount on record and the Dow suffered its largest single day point drop ever...

The markets just changed. Few understand what happened to the financial system after 2008. What happened was that the debt based financial system began to implode as debt deflation took hold. The scary thing is that it wasn’t even a large amount of debt deflation....

In the next downturn (which may have started last week, yee-haw), the world’s central banks will face a bit of poetic justice: To keep their previous policy mistakes from blowing up the world in 2008, they cut interest rates to historically – some would say...

Gold prices rose today in all major currencies as a rout in global equities prompted investors to seek shelter in safe haven gold.

On the campaign trail, then-presidential candidate Donald Trump pledged to invest as much as $1 trillion in U.S. infrastructure if he were elected. Last week during his first State of the Union address, now-President Trump added half a trillion dollars more to that...

Despite the headwinds of rising interest rates, gold was the best performing metal this week, although down slightly by 1.24 percent.  Gold traders are bullish for the fourth week in a row after the yellow metal posted its biggest monthly advance in five months in...

Most Americans have spent the last few years pressed up against the proverbial bakery window, watching the 1% enjoy a life of ever-increasing wealth and seemingly total indifference to the multitudes who aren’t favored by zero interest rates, big trust funds and ...

Last week, we took a break from the theme of the consumption of capital, for our annual Outlook 2018 report. We are going to leave the topic for one more week, while we address a market move which is on everyone’s mind.

I’ve spent over thirty years analyzing markets and have noticed an interesting correlation between the Wall St. Markets (stocks, interest rates) Gold (and the mining shares), the Dollar Index and Oil. In the charts below, I describe what I call “shadows” of the past...

Last week, principally on Friday, SPX (and the market in general) experienced the sharpest and most spontaneous correction in quite a while with little, if any, warning. For reasons stated in the above analysis, I feel that the bias does not favor the start of an...

As you are, or should be, aware the big market plunge on Friday came as no surprise to us – it was predicted just a few days before in the article BROAD US STOCKMARKET MELTUP update, in which the point was made that habitual victims Mom and Pop were at last getting...

We’re certain that many of you are asking yourself this question after seeing the markets rotate to the downside so hard recently.  If you had been reading our past analysis for the early portion of 2018, you would likely know the answer to this question. If not,...

Throughout this millennium, the rare instance of the Gold/Silver ratio topping 80x has always bode well for the white metal. We'll show you. But first, this short (pun!), swift statement on the stock market: at last Sunday's Investors Roundtable, in suggesting that...

Mr Bear was a very bad bear this week. In his report card below we see two extreme days, one of volatility (Dow Jones 2% day) and a day of extreme market breadth (NYSE 70% A-D day).

Over and over again I’ve been making goofy headlines about the Amigos, the 3 macro riders who will reach (or abort) their respective destinations, at which point the macro is subject to change. The latest update was yesterday with a daily chart view.

Speculation is in bull market values. This is a massive bottoming pattern four years in the making, with prices now testing resistance. GLD is on short-term sell signal. GDX is on short-term sell signal. XGD.to is on short-term sell signal. 

The US Dollar Index had an opportunity to generate a double bottom as it tested the September lows early in January. However, the bounce could not take out even the nearest of overhead resistance at 92.50 or approach the 93.50 level that was needed to show signs of...

In its outlook for 2018, Thomson Reuters GFMS analysts see gold prices rising to $1,500 an ounce sometime this year on inflation fears. This would put gold at a level unseen since April 2013.

Here are today's videos and charts.

One of the things from which I occasionally enjoy a good chuckle is the insecurity displayed by bloggers or newsletter writers that are constantly in need of positive reinforcement derived by reminding readers of their “incredible market calls”.

Global investors are radically underinvested in gold today. Years of relentless stock-market rallying to endless new record highs have left this classic alternative investment deeply out of favor. But this gold-demand ebb is ending. The same central banks that...

The official U.S. national debt, ignoring off-balance sheet liabilities, unfunded liabilities, “missing money” and fudging was: Sept. 30, 2016 $19.573 trillion, October 2, 2017 $20.347 trillion.

The blockchain has discovered gold (or gold has discovered the blockchain). Either way, this means several things. First, the decades-long dream of a gold-backed cybercurrency may finally be realized. Second, gold and probably silver are looking at a big new source...

A week ago we saw natural gas hit resistance and our cycle analysis also indicated the timing was about right for the price to start to fall.

Just a few days ago we alerted our members and followers to a massive setup in the Palladium market that had not been seen in years.  This chart formation provides an incredible opportunity for a trader to take advantage of and profit from the expected price decline...

Recently we called the top in gold, silver, miners, and palladium. This was based on several technical indicators including our cycle analysis. Below is a quick snapshot of how we and our members profited from the recent drop in precious metals.