Gold Editorials & Commentary

The Dow Index just keeps plugging higher…but all good things must eventually end. So let’s review the daily chart to see where the good times are likely to end.

The shock of the Panama Papers rippled with sensational headlines involving over 100 politicians from Iceland, Russia, China, United Kingdom and Argentina amid allegations of illegal offshore accounts set up by Mossack Fonseca, a Panamanian law firm.

Last week’s message to you regarding the "Panama Papers" release suggested..."don't be duped". What impressed me immediately as very strange was;...there were no Americans or Europeans on the list of tax cheats, etc., with the exception of David Cameron's father...

If one were to describe, in a word, the singular quality of gold that gives it value both as money and a wealth preservation asset, that quality is integrity. Physical gold cannot be printed, it cannot be conjured by a central bank or government official, it cannot...

As Central Banks continue to prop up the financial system with massive monetary printing, the death of paper money grows closer each passing day. While it is true that the Fed and Central Banks have been able to postpone the day of reckoning much longer than most...

While we still do not have a long-term confirmed bottom in the metals complex just yet, the price action is quite indicative of a very bullish market. You see, when the metals are truly in a bullish trend, they do not see deep retracements, which forces market...

The U.S. economy continues to slow down. In the second quarter of 2015, the U.S. economy rose at an annual rate of 3.9 percent versus – 2.0 percent in the third quarter, and – 1.4 percent in the fourth quarter.

Buy gold is the call of HSBC technical analysts, who are becoming increasingly bullish on gold and increasingly bearish on stocks as reported by Business Insider.

Spring has sprung for precious metals mining stocks. The HUI gold stocks index surged 6.2% on Monday to close at a 14-month high and today brings even more gains. The HUI chart shows a strong base was built from last summer through this January…and from that base a...

The FDIC just completed training all bank personnel to calculate deposit insurance coverage for Deposit Accounts, Revocable Trust Accounts and all other accounts held in banking institutions UNDER $1 B. in assets. What is the FDIC doing at banks over $1 B in assets...

What Do We Want From Gold? Roosevelt proved that gold was a political/financial tool, and its value is politically governed. Nixon proved two things: that the “Gold Standard” was nothing more than an arbitrary political tool, and indeed he made gold “legally” not...

Gold reached a new high for our wave !b! of ^iv^ triangle rally in the overnight session at 1264.60, at the time that this Post was being written.

The price action continues to be superb for most mining stocks held by the Western gold community. Now, silver bullion is poised to join the upside fun. That’s an indication that the current rally will enter its final stage. The final stage of a major rally in any...

On Thursday, Janet Yellen appeared with her predecessors Ben S. Bernanke, Alan Greenspan (via teleconference) and Paul Volcker for a roundtable discussion at the International House, New York. This was the first time all four spoke publicly together.

There was little change in this week’s Commitments of Traders report when it came to the positioning of traders within the gold futures market.

The desperation that was evidenced by the GOP's Colorado decision was just one of several symptoms that suggest the authorities are losing control. After examining the charts, I think we are days/weeks away from a market crash. Here's the reasoning:

Below is a daily chart for the HUI which shows one of the original patterns that formed what turned out to be a Diamond Reversal pattern to the upside. There are at least several more reversal patterns that formed at this most important low.

he best performing precious metal for the week was silver, up 2.05 percent. Reuters reports that Mario Cantu, the General Coordinator of Mining for Mexico (which the U.S. Geological Survey estimates was the world’s biggest silver producer in 2015), expects to see...

Sometimes certain chart patterns morph into others and vice versa. Gold and Silver are still holding to their Head & Shoulder patterns while the miners are developing different patterns due to relative strength.

For years the best trading strategy in gold and silver has been to buy when the ‘net short’ position of commercial traders was low, and sell when the numbers were high.

Either we saw a top in the mining shares Friday or we will see it on Monday. The cycles suggest a low around April 19th and the e-wave pattern suggests a continuation higher after the bottom is put in, likely into early June.

Whether you call it a 1970’s style stagflation or, as we call it, a recessflation, investors need to prepare their portfolios to profit from a protracted period of rising prices in the context of zero growth. Here are some facts: Growth in the U.S. has averaged just...

After reaching the stated P&F price projection for the two-month rally which began at 1810, SPX started a minor decline which, so far, has retraced some 40 points and has found support at 2043, an important price level which was breached but not broken.

Gold started the week on the downside but ended ahead by 1.7%. Now, if it only does this every week, we’ll really have a good bull market. However, things do not happen that conveniently. There will be ups and downs as time goes by. Which way the overall direction...

Are we in the midst of an "Enchanted April"? No, not the absorbing 1992 Miramax film some might characterize as a so-called "chick movie", wherein the exquisite cinematography all around Italy's Riviera Ligure is nothing short of stunning.

Indications are that the Battle of the Bulge is over. Market trends are returning to normal…and the rear guard action has failed to extend or even to hold. This week the focus turns to what every reader surely has seen announced and discussed – the on the spur...

Nothing significant happened last week on Wall Street. The Dow Jones chart below looks identical to the one I could have published last week. And as we haven’t seen any days of extreme market volatility since March 1st , the Dow Jones’ 200 count (Blue Plot below...

I believe a 2016 recession is already a fact in the US, and the Great Recession will return with a vengeance. That recession never really ended. It was simply propped up while all of its fundamental flaws remained, and the props are now all ended or failing. It will...

Gold sector is on a new major buy signal. Cycle is up but at levels of previous tops. COT data remains in bear market values and is now at levels of previous tops. Silver is on a long-term sell signal and investors should be in cash or short. Short-term is on sell...

The continuous draining of gold from West to East is not a sign of deteriorating viability of the globalists and their takeover/total control of the world. The Game remains the same, the controlling elites remain the same, only the players that are changing: China,...