Gold Editorials & Commentary

Two rate hikes since last year have weakened the dollar. Why is that, and what’s ahead for dollar, currencies and gold? And while we are at it, we’ll chime in on what may be in store for the stock market.

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Last weekend (Mar 11), I noted that we needed to stay over 21.60 on Monday and complete 5 waves up to give us a bullish set up going into the Fed announcement.  On Monday, the market gave us our 5 waves up off the prior week’s low, and on Tuesday, we saw a deep...

There is a combo chart for the PM complex I’ve been following, on the short term 10 month daily look, which shows a potential H&S bottom forming. I put a neckline symmetry line on the charts to get a feel for where the low for the right shoulder may form.

This was a target we set on Monday, June 19, 2006. However, it is taking longer to get there than we anticipated back then. It was 10 years ago but the reasons for this gold price forecast were roughly as follows:

Gold looks technically superb…and its fundamentals look even better. Inflation is rising in China and the West, the dollar looks shaky against key fiat competitors, and a reversal in American money velocity is imminent.

Pop quiz, name the top performing asset class of thus far this year? If you guessed US stocks or bonds, you’re wrong. The top performing asset class hands down is Emerging Market stocks, followed by Gold, THEN the S&P500, following by Treasuries and finally, Oil...

With the Trump euphoria pushing the broader markets to new all-time highs, it has impacted precious metals demand considerably… especially in February.  Precious metals investors believing the White House “Grandiose plans”, of making American great again, have cut...

A few analysts are once again beating the drums for much lower gold and silver prices - supposedly just around the corner.  They mistake the testing of a recent breakout for a turnaround in the main trend. In the process they are sowing confusion.  Here are some...

For close to five years, investors, experts and analysts have been predicting that commodities, as a group, are going nowhere. Still, millions of respected, intelligent investors seek to invest in minerals and resources because of one important reason: one solid...

When the Fed wrapped up its 2-day meeting on Wednesday (15 March 2017), the Federal Funds Rate increased by 25-basis points to 1.00%. The lone dissenting voice in the FOMC (Federal Open Market Committee) was Neel Kashkari of the Minneapolis Federal Reserve Bank. 

Dominic Frisby has looked at the best ways to invest in gold in the UK’s best-selling financial publication Money Week. Frisby looks at the various ways to invest in and own gold and points how gold ETFs are not much cheaper than online gold bullion dealers such as ...

For the third time in two years, the Federal Reserve lifted interest rates 0.25 percent last week following the previous week’s phenomenal jobs report. The move was seen as more dovish than many market analysts had anticipated. BCA Research went so far as to call it...

It is my privilege now to welcome in Craig Hemke of the TF Metals Report. Craig runs one of the most highly respected and well known blogs in the industry and has been covering the precious metals for close to a decade now, and he puts out some of the best analysis...

In this Weekend Report I’m going to update some charts I posted back in November of last year before the PM complex bottomed in late December. What I was showing back in November were many of the H&S tops that were breaking down in an impulse leg to the downside...

Every week we talk about the supply and demand fundamentals. We were surprised to see an article about us this week. The writer thought that our technical analysis cannot see what’s going on in the market. We don’t want to fight with people, we prefer to focus on...

Monday will be day 6 of Gold’s third Trading Cycle (TC) out of the December 2016 Yearly Cycle Low (YCL). Gold’s longer 5-6 month Intermediate Cycle usually has four shorter Trading Cycles within it (sometimes 3 or 5 but usually 4 shorter Trading Cycles).

SPX started a correction after it reached the 2400 target.  Until now, it was not certain if it wanted to continue to the 2410 extension before correcting.  Friday’s action strongly implies that it is preparing to continue the corrective process which could last for...

A solid week for stocks and stock markets and metals, mainly fuelled by the Fed increasing interest rates by 0.25%. All good and trending higher nearly anywhere you look…so ride the wave until it ends. It doesn’t really matter what someone says, it matters how...

The Federal Open Market Committee's policy statement released this past Wednesday, despite its confirming the raise of the FedFunds target range to 0.75%-1.00%, was couched as "dovish". We read the statement -- twice -- and didn't find anything about it that was "...

One of the key success factors of investors is to discover leading indicators which are able to forecast whether (specific) markets will become bullish or bearish in the future. InvestingHaven’s forecasting methodology has a fundamentally important leading indicator...

Last Friday promised some excitement for this week; what with the much anticipated interest rate increase by the FOMC and the Federal Government hitting its debt ceiling on Wednesday the 15th.   Come this Friday evening, it was all much to do about nothing, with the...

Speculative traders sold and shorted gold in anticipation of the Fed meeting, which was the completely wrong move. As the Fed did what everybody expected, gold traders bought back previously sold positions in a “sell-the-rumor and buy-the-fact” moment.

It seems, to almost nobody’s surprise, the Federal Reserve hiked interest rates 25 basis points (bp) for the second time in three months. They also hinted at more to come later in 2017. The Fed had “confidence in the path the economy is on.” Yet the market viewed it...

Gold sector is on short-term sell signal. Speculation continues to fall.

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The most commonly cited bullish arguments in favor of gold right now are the problems faced by the Old Continent, mainly the elections in certain countries. So let's analyze them individually to consider their potential impact on the gold market.

This week 65,000 people have been gathering in Cheltenham for one of the most important events on the horse racing calendar, the world famous Cheltenham Festival and the Gold Cup race.

Something big is afoot in the Shanghai Gold market. It seems that we are at the door of the RESET finally, with China being betrayed by the USGovt and USFed in concerted collusion. The attempt to reduce the USDollar while maintaining ultra-low bond yields seems the...

Buyers extended Wednesday’s perplexing rally — perplexing because if gold were acting normally, it would be falling on Wednesday’s headline news of a 25-basis-point rate hike by the Fed. Rising returns on risk-free paper are supposed to attract money away from...