Gold Editorials & Commentary

Gold has been on a tear since the start of this year. It is the best performing asset with a 16% rise in two months, however, if you are planning to enter gold at these current levels, you are likely in for a big surprise. Gold is overbought and technical analysis...

Gold officially entered a bull market in last week’s trading with prices gaining more than 20% from their December lows. The silver price also put on some very nice gains, but the price needs to reach about $16.40 before watchers can make the same claim.

Chinese President Xi Jinping is about to tell millions of government workers: “You’re fired.” Reuters reported last week that China plans to lay off between five and six million state workers over the next two to three years, in an effort to curb overcapacity in...

The quickening has begun in earnest. The end game might have begun in November with events picking up speed, remedy engaged in progressive steps, and geopolitical balance of power shifting in serious manner. The following are major events and factors in the Global...

After taking a beating in January the S&P500 has rebounded by about 5% in February, and this uptrend has continued into March. But before you think it’s safe to jump back into long positions, it’s important to realize why the market went down in the first place...

Over the last three weeks, U.S. equity markets have recovered and are now more overbought than any time since 2009. While this is the case with equities, it is not the case with high yield debt. As I have said many times before, credit analysts actually look under...

Gold ETF, the iShares Gold Trust, had to stop issuing new shares in its $7.7 billion on Friday as a “surge” in investment demand for gold caught out the provider of the ETF and the world’s largest money manager, BlackRock Inc.

So the price of silver rocketed up 80 cents, while the price of gold jumped $37. Silver is now more expensive than it was two weeks ago; and the price decline of last week was more than overcompensated.

The SPX 8 TD top was due Thursday and we are in the mid band of the Sun translation to Neptune, Saturn and Jupiter on Friday (TD 9). This reversal band has a +/- 10 TD reversal time frame from March 4th, which points to March 18 (OPEX) as the latest we could see a...

Interesting charts to present today with the S&P 500 Index, which is probably a better market to follow to reflect global economy. As we are all aware, the US Dollar still remains the reserve currency of the US Dollar and with that privilege, it extends into the...

Many analysts and writers have described the pattern forming in the past couple of weeks in gold as a "bull Flag or Pennant" with some appearing to be "playing to the gallery" - i.e. telling their audience what they want to hear, which is that gold will continue to...

This week we saw markets run into resistance…as they are more overbought now than we’ve been since 2009. However, we just aren’t yet seeing any weakness that we can short into. I had to take losses on all my short positions first thing this past week. Fortunately,...

SPX has either reached its maximum P&F count potential from the base which formed across the 1842 level, or is very close to doing so. If it has, distribution should begin to appear although, in the case of wedge formations, a reversal often quickly extends to...

Suddenly, the gold price and silver are good again. In two short months, they’ve morphed from targets of derision to shiny new toys on the financial playground. Not surprisingly, questions have been pouring in from people who kind-of sort-of know the precious metals...

Canada’s Financial Ministry has continued to act out its insanity. The Ministry has actually stripped Canada of every last, single ounce of gold. This at a time when China and Russia are buying whatever they can. China holds over 1,700 tons of gold though it...

The Death of the paper gold market picked up speed today as Blackrock announced that issuance of new Gold IAU ETF shares was suspended. However, it’s much worse than the information in news release when we factor in the total supply and demand situation.

Mr Bear treated us to another day of extreme volatility on Tuesday. Although it was a positive day, that doesn’t really matter as the Dow Jones 200 count (the number of days the Dow Jones moves more than +/- 2% from a previous day’s close in a running 200 day...

Nine weeks ago as Gold closed out last year at 1061, both herein and on radio, we set a 2016 price target for Gold of "the upper 1200s", refining it to 1280 as that is the upper band of the regularly-cited "1240-1280 resistance zone". Then yesterday (Friday) at 06:...

In last week’s commentary, February Heralding End Of Down Trend For Gold And Silver? , we stated: The significance of February is its decided change in market behavior on the monthly and weekly charts.” We are seeing even more evidence to support that premise, and...

This article confirms that the current explosive rise of the gold and gold related stocks is in progress. The rise is an extension of the gold bull market that began in year 2000. The last four years are bull market corrections. This gold bull market will rise to...

Gold sector is on a new major buy signal. Cycle is up but at levels of previous tops. Silver is on a long-term sell signal and investors should be in cash or short. Short-term is on sell signal and COT data suggests lower prices in coming weeks.

Two weeks ago, regarding the miners we wrote: If it (GDXJ) surpasses its 80-week moving average, then its next target is $27-$28. Meanwhile, GDX is holding above previous resistance at $18. Its next strong resistance targets are $21 and $22.

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Okay, the title of the post is a bit of a joke at this late stage of the rally because it sounds like hype and we have actually been calling the move in the gold sector a potential launch for weeks now, since gold and HUI each busted through their bear market...

Gold’s powerful surge in 2016 has been driven by utterly massive investment buying. This is a marked sea change from recent years, where investors relentlessly pulled capital out of gold. But with that dire sentiment reversing, they are rushing back in with a...

This move in gold has caused me concern and after exhaustive examination, I may have found the clue I've been seeking. Below is an eerily similar pattern to what we see now and if it plays out verbatim, gold should top very soon.

The gold to silver ratio has been used for years to indicate buy and sell zones in both gold and silver. Why? At BOTTOMS in both gold and silver, based on 40 years of history, silver prices have fallen farther and faster than gold. Hence the gold/silver ratio...

Last week I showed you a daily line chart for GLD, which I called a coiling triangle as the price action was getting more compressed as it traded toward the apex. This daily line chart shows the breakout and backtest. Most technicians are aware of the triangle...

Gold has surged another 4% this week to bring year to date gains to 20% in dollar terms, 19% in euro terms and 24% in sterling terms. We were interviewed by PickingAlpha.com yesterday afternoon and looked at what is currently driving gold prices higher in all...

One of the hardest things to do in this business is to let your winners run. For whatever reason we are programmed to expect reversals. It’s why so many people try to trade against the trend. I’ve seen it in full display over the last five weeks as trader after...