Mark Mead Baillie
Market Analyst & Author
Mark Mead Baillie has had an extensive business career beginning in banking and financial services for two years with Banque Nationale de Paris to corporate research for three years at Barclays Bank and then for six years as an analyst and corporate lender with Société Générale.
For the last 22 years he has expanded his financial expertise by creating his own financial services company, de Meadville International, which comprehensively follows his BEGOS complex of markets (Bond/Euro/Gold/Oil/S&P) and the trading of the futures therein. He is recognized within the financial community of demonstrating creative technical skills that surpass industry standards toward making highly informed market assessments and his work is featured in Merrill Lynch Wealth Management client presentations. He has adapted such skills into becoming the popular author each week of the prolific “The Gold Update” and is known in the financial website community as “mmb” and “deMeadville”.
Mr. Baillie holds a BS in Business from the University of Southern California and an MBA in Finance from Golden Gate University.
Mark Mead Baillie Articles
So let’s begin with the Gold/Silver ratio, by which these last several years we’ve gone on time-and-again as to the white metal being “the better buy” over the yellow metal. Thus straight away from the “Everything Reverts to the Mean Dept...
Ya gotta luv it: Friday a week back, Gold confirmed the commencement of a new weekly parabolic Short trend. But from this past Monday’s opening print at 4069 (basis December), Gold (after a wee-hours dip to 4036) strapped on the rocket-...
Welcome to the 16th Anniversary Edition of The Gold Update. What began 835 Saturdays ago on 21 November 2009 as a single paragraph and chart for one JGS has since evolved (in our proud opinion) to the finest weekly writing in the known...
Recall from last week’s piece our notion of the prices for both Gold and Silver “basing” rather then succumbing to indications of further downside?
Four weeks ago for the first time ever, Gold settled above 4000, indeed at 4036 on Friday, 10 October. A week hence, Gold bettered that level with a Friday settle at 4268 on 17 October. And whilst Gold’s three successive Friday settles...
Through the 44 trading weeks thus far for 2025, Gold therein has recorded a net weekly gain 31 times (70%). Further, for the year’s 13 net losing weeks, never have there been three in-a-row. However, for just the fifth time this year,...
Gold — in having the prior week been “meme’d” — this past week got “bean’d”. And anticipatedly so, for as you by now well know, Gold had gotten — and indeed still is — “ahead of itself”, a phrase familiar to those readers of The Gold...
This past Wednesday evening, Gold having surpassed the 4200 level, our doorbell rang. ‘Twas unexpectedly a fine friend whose first four words excitedly were: “I just bought Gold!!”
Ya gotta love October. Silver finds fresh sky above 50 even as Gold takes a gut-punch from its new 4081 high, and the S&P at long last says “Goodbye!” Recall our closing query from a week ago?
If for some inexcusably unconscionable reason you missed Tuesday’s Prescient Commentary and/or our entry on “X” (@deMeadvillePro ), we herein repeat same for you stragglers: “Gold at 00:05 GMT this morning reached its Dollar debasement...
