Gold Editorials & Commentary

Gold-linked exchange-traded products are growing in popularity with investors. Assets held by gold ETFs have grown 38% globally in 2019. In October, according to the World Gold Council, gold ETFs attracted $1.9 billion in net inflows to reach a new record high total...

Can gold take out the 2019 highs and carry the miners on a mighty bull run that will stun all the naysayers? Goldman analysts think it will happen!

In the Tuesday report, I explained how gold has been forming interim highs in the opening days of a new month. Prices peaked the next day at $1489.90. The final breakdown appears to be underway, and we see the potential for a bottom by mid-December.

Gold, silver, and mining stocks reversed practically exactly at their double triangle reversal point and the short positions that we opened along with taking profits off the table from the previous long positions, became profitable almost instantly. There’s quite a...

Wall Street owns Washington DC – figuratively speaking. In literal terms, the largest banks in the nation own the Federal Reserve. They also bought and paid for a great number of DC politicians as evidenced by campaign contributions, Congressional voting records and...

While our contributions are usually about gold’s long-term price path, it pays off to supplement them with short-term opportunities when we see one. That will be the subject of the first part of this article, as we’ll discuss the upcoming short-term bottom and...

The best performing metal this week was palladium, up 2.04 percent as hedge funds increased their net-long position in the futures market to a five-week high. Gold traders and analysts are mostly bullish going into next week in the Bloomberg survey amid mixed...

WHAT WE SAY NOW:  Though we would not characterize 2019 as a breakout year, gold has certainly thrown off the restraints. As a result, it has been a very good year thus far.  Per Friday’s close (12/6/2019), gold is up almost 13.8% on the year even after accounting...

"There is no subtler, no surer means of overturning the existing basis of society than to debauch the currency. The process engages all the hidden forces of economic law on the side of destruction, and does it in a manner which not one man in a million is able to...

Great traders are often the result of dedication to principle, theory, price study, and a solid understanding of Intermarket market dynamics.  The one thing that can't be taught, though, is experience behind the screens and with the markets. 

The short-term correction which had been predicted in the last newsletter occurred right on cue, but failed to reach 3035 which would have been a .382 retracement of the uptrend from 2856.  This suggests that that trend has not yet reversed conclusively and that new...

Large precious metals speculators increased their bullish net positions in the Gold Futures markets this week, according to the latest Commitment of Traders (COT) data released by the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) on Friday.

Since mid-October the Dow Jones has been at a new all-time high, or within 2.5% of one in the BEV chart below.  I can’t complain about that.

Following Gold's fall from the 1500s back on 05 November, our missives these past several weeks have found us fairly bulled-up throughout. Trusting the 1454-1434 "support shelf" as a pricing base has thus far been Gold's saving grace.

Our proprietary cycle indicator is up. Gold sector is on major buy signal. Speculation remains high despite the current pullback. Stay focused on the big picture.

It is my privilege now to welcome back our good friend Greg Weldon, CEO and president of Weldon Financial. Greg has decades of market research and trading experience specializing in the metals and commodity markets and even authored a book back in 2016 titled Gold...

Here are today's videos and charts. The videos are viewable on mobile phones as well as computers. Double-click to enlarge the charts.

I want to take you back a bit in time so you can develop the appropriate perspective of a bottoming process in the metals market.

Gold has been correcting following last summer’s powerful bull-breakout upleg. Since peaking, gold has inexorably drifted lower in a well-defined downtrend. Traders are wondering when this necessary and healthy sentiment-rebalancing selloff will bottom, paving the...

We all know that the gold and silver Commitments of Traders are very extended and at levels of commercial net shorts and large spec net longs that tend to be in place at tops in the metals. Well, the metals topped in the summer, so what does that tell us?

Technical Analysis is the theory that price relates all news, fundamental and correlative future expectations into current and recent price activity.  It is the theory that price is the ultimate indicator and that charts paint a very clear picture for those...

In November, Lagarde delivered her first speech as the ECB President. Will she follow in Draghi’s footsteps? But what should gold investors expect from her?

A few weeks ago we noted the bullish setup for 2020. Macro developments, one way or another will tend to favor gold. There isn’t a realistic scenario that isn’t gold bullish.

Our research and predictive modeling systems have nailed Gold over the past 15+ months.  We expected Gold to rally above $1750 before the end of this year, but the global trade wars and news cycles stalled the rally in Gold over the past 2 months.  Now, it appears...

Central banks around the world are praying that there won’t be a recession, and if there is that a further monetary stimulus will ensure economic recovery. Their problem is Keynesian theory says it will work, but last time it didn’t. In fact, it has never worked...

In yesterday’s analysis on gold price in December 2019, we wrote that while the outlook for the yellow metal for the following months was bearish, it was bullish for the short term. And indeed – gold, silver, and mining stocks rallied. In fact, the rally continues...

I can remember there were times during the PM complex bull market before 2011 that sometimes the PM metals would rally but the PM stocks were very weak. Then there were times when the PM stock would rise while the PM metals moved very little.

The largest gold nugget in Britain has been found in a Scottish river, as experts reveal that members of the public are taking up hunting after watching YouTube clips.

When gold’s price reached $850 per ounce in January 1980, it seemed as if nothing would stop the runaway train that was headed straight for $1000 per ounce. But it was stopped, and began sliding downhill quickly.

The ISM Manufacturing Index fell 0.2 point to a reading of 48.1 in November. However, gold struggles to find momentum. What is going on exactly?