Mark J Lundeen
Wednesday June 19th, the bond and stock markets had a bad day. We saw more of the same on Thursday; only worse. Doctor Bernanke testified before Congress that he was going to begin “tapering” his current Quantitative Easing’s monthly...
The silver to gold ratio (SGR) reached a new high of the move last Monday (June 10th) of 66.23 ounces of silver to one ounce of gold. This is a huge retracement from its low of 32.00 to an ounce of gold on 25 April 2011. Today, an ounce...
We’re almost half way through 2013, so how is the stock market doing? It could be better, and it could be worse. Here’s the chart for the NYSE’s 52Wk High-Low Ratio. I see that last Wednesday the ratio fell to -11.29%. Since the Aug -...
We’re almost half way through 2013, so how is the stock market doing? It could be better, and it could be worse. Here’s the chart for the NYSE’s 52Wk High-Low Ratio. I see that last Wednesday the ratio fell to -11.29%. Since the Aug -...
“Experts” speak much on inflation and deflation, but most peoples understanding of them come from academics (aka “educators”), people whose self interest lies in keeping the public unenlightened of what they actually mean. As long as the...
I made charts for gold and silver priced in constant 1920 dollars I thought my readers would find interesting. The plots’ prices are ratios with the nominal dollar price of the metals for the numerators and the indexed increases in...
So how's the bull market in gold and silver going? As seen below, they are doing just fine. In fact gold and silver are doing better than the Dow Jones 1982-2000 bull market was at its day 2,746 on June 24, 1993. If we compare the progress...
I like looking for market extremes, as they usually occur prior to a major change in the market’s price trend. One market extreme to follow is the number of 52Wk highs or lows an index is making, as we can see in the chart below where the...
At market tops, bullish enthusiasm alters society’s brain chemistry to the point where what should be ridiculed becomes widely acceptable to the cattle rushing towards a terrible day of reckoning. Case in point is the following video,...
Here is the silver to gold ratio, or the number of ounces of silver one ounce of gold can purchase. At the close of Friday’s trading an ounce of gold was worth 61.55 ounces of silver; that is a lot of silver, but not as much silver as an...
