Gold Editorials & Commentary

The price of gold reached an all-time high of $1925 on September 6th 2011. Since then the price dropped to a low point of $1321 on April 16th 2013. A correction of 45% during a bull market is not unusual; as painful as it is for gold bulls. In the process gold...

Alan Greenspan gave them the playbook (Credit & Debt Manipulation 101) and now Ben Bernanke and global inflators everywhere have taken the ball and run with it in new, innovative and levered up ways.  Actually it’s a game of Whack-a-Mole and they play it

As you heard in the European Union conference last weekend, there is a demand from these governments that there be a sharing of banking information. The U.S. is following a similar line as we saw with Google and Apple answering questions on Capitol Hill.

To an extent that reveals a thorough misunderstanding of the market forces, the financial media has failed to consider the different motivations and beliefs that drive the different types of investors who are active in the gold market.

Remember that there is nothing stable in human affairs; therefore avoid undue elation in prosperity, or undue depression in adversity.

- Socrates

Investors should have gained confidence from Ben Bernanke’s recent testimony to Congress that the Federal Reserve intends on being accommodative as long as needed.

The Wall Street Journal ran a piece delineating the two sides of the gold debate giving five reasons why the gold bulls are right a

Gold appears to be entering the “summer doldrums” season, but there are some black swan issues that could add a lot of volatility to the market.

On the rare occasions when the US stock market crashes, the crash never begins immediately after the price peak.

5 Reasons Gold Will Set an All-Time Record HIGH In 2013

The imminent train wreck is picking up speed and your life’s savings will soon evaporate overnight if you do nothing!  You won’t like hearing this but least of all will you enjoy living through it!  The Central Banks control the timing but the

Elliott Waves over the past 12000 years

On behalf of Matterhorn Asset Management / GoldSwitzerland, independent financial journalist Lars Schall interviewed financial markets publisher Tekoa Da Silva about, inter alia, opportunities and risks in the precious metals field, the lack of enforcement of r

Precious metals and their related mining stocks continue to underperform the broad market.

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 Dow Jones plot is bou

Stocks were flat Friday, May 24th in light volume pre-holiday trading.

We cannot control the markets, but we can control how to respond to what they are saying. The paper market has been turned into a circus, thanks to JP Morgan, and abetted by the exchanges, COMEX and LME.

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There are monumental ramifications to China's dire and urgent necessity to buy gold to diversity foreign reserves.

A great week once again but for different reasons than of late.  While we had some amazing gains recently, the key way booking those gains.  It’s sometimes easy to get on board but knowing when to exit is just as important.  Profits do not count until you press

We would like to start with a question from one of our subscribers today, as we believe that it is a good way to show the distinction between tools that help you spot what direction the market is about to move and those that are better suited to time the exact

Two weeks ago we looked at the difference between gold ETF outflows vs. physical gold purchases, and showed that most sales were coming from the former while aggressive buying was coming from the latter.

Silver has suffered horrendously in 2013’s opening months, plunging dramatically to miserable lows.  This exceptional weakness has naturally kindled extreme bearishness.  Predictions abound for silver to continue selling off indefinitely.  But amidst this sever

You know that gold bear market that the financial press keeps touting? The one George Soros keeps proclaiming? Well, it is not there. The gold bear market is disinformation that is helping elites acquire the gold.

This has been one of the worst stretches for gold and silver pricewise in quite some time, no secret there.  I have to go back to when silver was in single digits to find a comparable period.   The question on precious metals investors’ minds is whether this ba

Much has been made about the drop in COMEX gold stocks. COMEX gold stocks have fallen from 11.1 million ounces in the end of 2012 to just under 8 million ounces today.