Gold Editorials & Commentary

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...

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...

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...

BIG PICTURE – Let’s face it; the strong US Dollar and weakness in the price of oil are hurting corporate earnings in the US and it is conceivable that both sales and profits for the S&P500 Index may decline during the first half of the year.

From this morning’s Financial Times: “It is quite easy for one to introduce QE policy, as it is little more than printing money. When QE is in place, there may be all sorts of players managing to stay afloat in this big ocean. Yet it is difficult to predict now...

Recently business and financial guru Mark Cuban wrote an article about why this tech bubble is going to be worse than the tech bubble of 2000. This made me take another look at the long-term charts again, but instead of looking up the NASDAQ or the tech sector, I...

The lack of available risk-free paper was further accentuated by the fact that Germany's public sector posted a total budget surplus in 2014 of €6.4bn ($6.95 billion), helped by strong tax revenues in a recovering economy, compared with a deficit of €7.2bn the...

Fears of a renewed global property bubble are rising as prices hit records last seen before the financial crisis. New data shows real-estate returns in the UK surging 17.9% in 2014 and London returns of over 20% and global returns averaging 9.9%, the Financial Times...

Gold has a scary habit of pulling out of its all-too-frequent kamikaze dives just before splattering on the deck, technically speaking. If, for one, yesterday’s selloff had exceeded 1187.20 to the downside, we might have expected it to continue to at least 1175.60....

Like the economic “clairvoyant” I am, I can see it now – as the FOMC concludes its upcoming April 28th meeting. With another month of miserable economic data under its belt, and the Fed’s real dual mandate – to support the stock market, and devalue the dollar – more...

The most memorable scene in the film adaptation of Glengarry Glen Ross is when Alec Baldwin’s character—a hotshot real estate broker from the prestigious Mitch and Murray agency—tells a group of struggling real estate agents that it takes “brass balls to sell real...

The common theme is that GDP, debt, sales, expenses, gasoline consumption, economic activity and much more increased exponentially. Our world is based on exponential economic growth, exponential increases in spending, exponential increases in population,...

Renowned financial analysts and trends forecaster Martin Armstrong has said that gold will “probably max out at $5,000 per ounce” as “people lose confidence in government” and that we will see riots and unrest globally in the coming months – the fall of this year....

Much speculation abounds regarding China's gold holdings. They officially claim 1,054 tons as of April 2009. We suspected they might "re" announce their holdings again last year at this time as it was five years after their last announcement and China has a habit...

I urge everyone to consider my arguments for investing in gold and silver, and the miners that extract it.

Although China's economy has been leading the world in annualized growth since the days that mobile phones had retractable antennas, there have always been some aspects of the country's commercial and financial system that loudly broadcast the underlying illogic of...

Today we completed step one in the possible rollover scenario, with price making a confirmed high. Before we get too excited charts make confirmed highs/lows all the time, it just one step in a potential trend change or correction. The next step would be two...

Several months ago I presented you with an “evil” plan with which the metals and miners have followed through quite well with regard to their downside movements. However, since that time, they have been acting more like kittens rather than evil patterns. They have...

No, we're not talking about 4G phones, nor God, Gold, Guns and Grub. Today let's look at GE, Greece, and finish with a very interesting Germany and Gazprom. Last week GE shocked the market place by announcing they will sell their crown jewel GE Capital. Why would...