One can’t help but wonder if the world is truly coming apart. Then again, maybe it’s all normal. Extreme weather gripped parts of the world with huge fires in France, California, Montana, and the still ongoing fires in BC. Floods were causing destruction in India,...
Gold Editorials & Commentary
August 1, 2017
Kintsukuroi or Kintsugi is the Japanese art of repairing broken pottery with gold and silver. The Japanese like to consider it a way of not only repairing the item but also transforming it into something new which is pristine and has a new potential.
July 31, 2017
A truly massive scandal is brewing in Big Tech. This scandal concerns the fact that 60% of advertising “clicks” are in fact, NOT human; they are bots or automated algorithms that don’t buy anything. EVER.
The best performing precious metal for the week was palladium, up 4.29 percent on hedge fund managers increasing their bullish positioning on the metal as expectations of increased usage in automotive catalyst to curb pollution. China’s purchase of bullion bars in...
That’s it. It’s the final straw. One of the alternative investing newsletters had a headline that screamed, “Bitcoin Is About to Soar, But You Must Act by August 1 to Get In".
July 30, 2017
The significant increase in Large Spec long positions this past week in gold and silver from a very low level might be cause of concern to some, since it of course increases the risk of a reaction in these metals, but there is another much more positive way of...
Current Position of the Market: SPX Long-term trend: Uptrend continues with a serious loss of upside momentum in weekly indicators. SPX Intermediate trend: An ending pattern appears to be in its last stages of completion. This should be followed by an intermediate...
Kudos to our good colleague and bon vivant Squire who a week ago, with respect to our annoyance over gold's returning up only to get stuck yet again in its 1240-1280 box, quintessentially queried: "...what if price just keeps powering up through here this time?"
The latest Commitment of Traders (COT) report, which was published BEFORE the recent Fed decision, shows a massive drop in speculative shorts – the biggest in the report’s history back to 2006! Speculative longs did increase their own positions, but by nowhere near...
July 29, 2017
I was looking for some excellent earnings numbers this past week and in the week to come. To be sure they’ve been lacklustre.
Value is subjective, reflective of one’s feelings or opinions. In the minds of those who value gold, throughout the ages and around the world, this precious metal is deemed to have an intrinsic value superior to most other assets. The well-used adjective,...
It is my privilege now to welcome in Frank Holmes, CEO and Chief Investment Officer at U.S. Global Investors. Mr. Holmes has received various honors over the years, including being named America's Best Fund Manager for 2016 by the Mining Journal. He is also the co-...
The Chinese Govt is greatly irritated by the requirement to use USDollars in payment for crude oil in the global market. The Beijing officials finally have some leverage in arranging for a major deal to pay for crude oil in RMB currency, their Yuan. The negotiations...
Our proprietary cycle indicator turned up this week. Gold sector is on major buy signal since early 2016.
July 28, 2017
Many commentators are baffled as to why the Fed has suddenly reversed course. Throughout 2017 the Fed has talked repeatedly about raising rates several times as well as shrinking its balance sheet.
Here are today's videos and charts
Ominously for the stock markets, the Federal Reserve is warning that quantitative tightening is coming later this year. The Fed is on the verge of starting to drain its vast seas of new money conjured out of thin air over the past decade or so. The looming end of...
After a rally into the trend line as expected, the price structure has now completed a five wave rally in wave 'v' pink. Last night the target for a top was set at 1.1782. The overnight high reached 1.1776 and then sold off in a possible impulsive wave structure.
July 27, 2017
I am cautiously bullish with today’s new high in gold and GDX on day 13. Silver also made a new high on day 12 but is still lagging gold out of the recent low. Note that I have used GLD and SLV in my charts today as the price prints for gold and silver on...
August Gold encouraged with an end-of-day reversal that tripped a ‘counterintuitive’ buy signal at 1249.30 (see inset). We anticipated this during this morning’s tutorial session, which you can access in recorded form if you were registered for the class but unable...
On this day before yet another FOMC propaganda event, how can stock futures not be higher - given that, per the well-documented "pre-FOMC drift" manipulation scheme, for the past decade, stocks have enjoyed their biggest gains the days before and during FOMC...
It has been a contrarian trade that has not yet worked out; by that I mean my short position on the Euro and preparation for a firming US dollar. Yesterday the market cheered the supposedly dovish Fed, and USD got smeared again as the world’s counter party paper...
Gold’s medium- to long-term investment case, I believe, looks even brighter. Many unsettling risks loom on the horizon—not least of which is a record amount of global debt—that could potentially spell trouble for the investor who hasn’t adequately prepared with some...
It was a pretty simple inquiry on my part: Mike Maloney predicts the stock market is facing the mother of all crashes—if he’s right, then how long before the average stock investor would get back to even?
July 26, 2017
Phelps vs shark, Mayweather vs McGregor, greenback vs gold? No contest. Gold wins. Eight years after the global financial crash and despite fears of tightening, stock markets are near historic records. So much liquidity was pumped into the market that investors...
The US Dollar Index (DXY) continued to move lower this week having lost another 1.4% from the previous weeks close. This continued move lower came after the DXY had already lost over 8% from the highs that were struck in January. While the Dollar is still getting...
Because the dollar has such an important bearing on everything, especially the Precious Metals, it is timely for us to take a close look at it here after its recent steep drop, for as some of you may have seen, a number of indicators pertaining to the dollar suggest...
July 25, 2017
Gold, silver and the USD Index didn’t do much in yesterday’s trading, but that was not the case with mining stocks. The divergence between gold stocks and gold was particularly visible and the implications are once again particularly important.
Gold continues to flow from the West to the East at a pretty solid pace. The SPDR fund (GLD-NYSE) holdings have oozed down to just 809 tonnes…and done so while the price of gold has strengthened!
After hitting the 161.8 extension up off of the April 18th lows on July 14th The Dow Jones Industrial Average has moved sideways and has traded in a very tight range of less than 1% since that July 14th top. Furthermore, the pattern both up and down off of that July...
