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April 21, 2015

Gold, now well into year four of a bear market, continued its familiar pattern on Monday: one step up, two steps back. My long-term correction target remains $810, although I’ll always keep an open mind about trading from the long side, or even initiating a long-...

April 20, 2015

For the past decade, junior mining companies have outperformed senior miners at finding new mineral deposits and generating wealth for investors.

This past Friday, Dave Kranzler of Investment Research Dynamics put out a very thoughtful article and chart regarding the spike in “reverse repurchase agreements” RRP’s held at the Fed.

I apologize ahead of time for the length of this post. The extreme length is a function of Harry Dent’s most recent diatribe on why you should not own gold and why should “sell it short when he tells you to”. Mr. Dent has so many incorrect thoughts and what he...

It’s Friday afternoon, and global stocks have had a very, very bad day. After the Chinese stock market closed for the weekend, its regulators, in their omniscient wisdom, decided to increase the amount of permitted “shortable” stocks. Consequently, Chinese stock...

Gold and silver are the best preservers of your capital when other currencies fail, especially because you don’t have loss of purchasing power or loss of opportunity costs because interest rates are almost zero or negative. The question is when the dollar reverses...

The Greek government and its “partners” appear to be reaching the end of the road in their negotiations to release the final €7.2 billion of its €240 billion bailout deal.

Gold traders remain divided amid speculation over the timing of U.S. interest rate increases. Survey results show seven bullish, six bearish and six analysts with a hold recommendation. As of April 3, Shanghai Gold Exchange withdrawals stood at 647 metric tons (Mt...

Since 2011 the financial markets have been dominated by rises in paper markets and declines in commodity markets. Group One Paper Examples: T-Bonds, US Dollar Index, S&P 500 Index. Group Two Commodity Examples: Crude Oil, Sugar, Wheat, Gold, Silver.

April 19, 2015

Inflection Point: An inflection point on a chart is an area where the price action can break either up or down. It’s an area of confusion that makes investors go nuts. You know a strong move is coming but you aren’t sure what direction the move will go. I believe...

Until the times of R.N. Elliott, the world applied the Newtonian laws of physics as the primary analysis tool for the stock markets. Basically, these laws provide that movement in the market was caused by outside forces.

Precision timing for all time frames through a multi-dimensional approach to forecasting using technical analysis: Cycles - Breadth - P&F and Fibonacci price projections supplemented by Elliott Wave analysis

I don’t think medical doctors have diagnosed the condition yet, but Gold Bugs know that it exists. The affliction expresses itself as a constant desire to find bullish indications in every precious metals chart or article.

When it comes to investing in gold, for the most part, the U.S. Gold Market is completely insane. I am not blaming Americans, as they have been totally brainwashed by the U.S. Treasury and Federal Reserve into believing that gold is something you wear, not invest...

The price of gold made a weekly reversal candle and closed above the 10-Week average. It appears to be setting up a move higher over the next 4-6 weeks likely targeting the $1,300 level.

Institutional ‘smart money’ is historically always ahead of the Pollyanna masses, who only listen to the incessant blah-blah from commission hungry brokers. Traditionally, institutional smart money investors are late to enter a secular bull market…but on the other...

One might even substitute the word "flight" in the above title with "fight", for 1200 is proving more and more to have become a battle line in the sand for Gold. You may recall from three missives ago (28 March's "Gold Managing The Madness") that upon first...

The ongoing narrative is that there is a positive correlation between monetary stimulus and the price of gold. However, as you probably know by now, precious metals collapsed during the Fed’s QE to infinity program. The long-term gold chart (first chart below) shows...

You may think that this is April 2015, and for those who follow the calendar that is exactly correct. A month ago I couldn’t let Fluffy out at night without exposing the little girl to frostbite. Today the grass is green, trees are budding leaves and the wild...

April 18, 2015

When determining if a bull move in gold is a probability, a good indicator can be found in the relationship between the junior and senior gold miners ETF’s. If a bull move is occurring, the junior gold miners ETF (GDXJ) should show indications that it will...

Gold sector is on major sell signal. SLV – is on short term buy signal.

Markets and stocks had a solid week until Friday when weakness set in hard off resistance. It looks like we aren’t quite ready to move higher unless we can see markets come back strong Monday. Nevertheless, we do have several of the heavyweight leading stocks set...

April 17, 2015

Metals continue to be a conundrum. While Gold has trended lower it has failed to break below $1100 as so many expect. It is very strong against foreign currencies and did not break to a new low even as the US$ index rallied from 87 to 100. On the other hand, Gold...

Alan Greenspan was the Chairman of the Federal Reserve Board of the United States from 1987 to 2006. In the capacity of chief architect in the global financial crisis of that era, Chairman Greenspan implied that if China, the world’s largest gold consumer, used a...

Gold Volume, Silver Triangle, GDX, GDXJ, Key Junior Stocks Buy & Key Junior Stocks Sell analysis via videos:

The highly-anticipated first-quarter earnings season is in full swing, with traders eager to see how US companies are faring. While expectations are low, these profits releases still collectively pose serious risks for today’s overvalued and overextended US stock...

Last week Craig Hemke (aka Turd Ferguson at tfmetalsreport.com) published an interesting and intelligent article about the post 2011 relationship between the Yen, Gold, and the S&P500. Some quotes from his article:

A reassessment of economic prospects and Fed policy in the weeks and months ahead could be just the turn of events that will support a springtime recovery in the price of gold, lifting the yellow metal up and out of its recent trading range.

Gold fell 0.29 percent or $3.50 and closed at $1,199.00 an ounce on yesterday, while silver rose 0.18 percent or $0.03 closing at $16.29 an ounce.

There are two connected reasons usually cited for the current dollar strength: the US economy is performing better than all the others, leading towards relatively higher US dollar interest rates, and that this is triggering a scramble for dollars by foreign...

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