The month of June is typically a boring one for gold and silver price action, although the latter half of the month tends to be a bit better for gold.
Today is gold options expiry day on the COMEX. As expiry day approaches, gold has a tendency to trade sideways to lower. Option traders tend to focus on round numbers, like $1200. As they battle amongst themselves for higher or lower...
In the Western gold community, there seems to be a fairly widely held view that gold prices can’t rise much higher, unless confidence in central banking is lost.
The first four months of 2015 have seen many gold stocks stage tremendous rallies. In many cases, but not all, the gains appear to be “here to stay.” When some individual gold stocks rise by 100% - 400% in just four months, investors can...
The price movement of gold and silver bullion continues to disappoint both the bulls and bears. “Key” upside and downside breakouts are followed by more sideways action. It’s not just gold and silver that are acting like slugs in the mud...
While the benchmark GDX and GDXJ ETFs are struggling to stage clean upside breakouts, many individual gold stocks are staging dramatic rallies.
The upcoming FOMC meeting on April 28 – 29 could keep COMEX gold prices under some pressure. Regardless, influential Western bank economists continue to focus more on events in Asia. In the West, gold is mainly associated with extremism...
Almost every day, bank economists are making more positive statements about the outlook for gold prices, and rightly so. "Money printing had almost always resulted in inflation but in today's excess global production capacity environment...
The latest US jobs report has stunned most analysts, with its dramatic weakness. Most investors in the Western gold community are nervous about rate hikes, and this report supposedly gives the average gold investor a little breathing room...
Since rallying from the $1142 area to about $1219, gold has retraced about half those gains. Bloomberg reports that investor short positions are now at the highest levels since 2006.