Gold Editorials & Commentary

Long term – on major sell signal since Mar 2012. Short term – on sell signals. Gold sector cycle – up as of 6/20. COT data suggests a top is forming in metal prices.

Well, what a hammering the markets took on Thursday! There’s always a reason for this move or that and the Malaysia Airlines crash near the border of Ukraine and Russia and its potential consequences was the main driver in this case. However, we are right smack bang...

There is no one singular event that will ultimately loosen the manipulative shackles that the elite’s central bankers have maintained on the PMs [Precious Metals], as evidence continues to mount that Western countries, and the US, especially, are going under...

Markets and stocks were very weak and choppy and didn’t give us any easy trades this past week. We’re in the summer doldrums right now and while it’s no fun, we are setting up a nice long base that should set us up for nice moves into the fall which is the strongest...

We know that the gold and silver stocks lead the metals at key turning points. The stocks started their bear market well ahead of Gold. This year the stocks have exhibited excellent relative strength. Gold and Silver are up less than 10% this year while GDX is up 27...

Briefly: In our opinion (full) speculative short positions in gold, silver and mining stocks are now justified from the risk/reward perspective. In our yesterday’s second alert we wrote that yesterday’s rally was quite likely to be a one-time event and that it didn’...

Chart Gold MACD, Silver MACD, XAU MACD, GDXJ Surge to Neckline & Bad Asset Trend Lines Charts Analysis via videos.

The surreal US stock markets have continued melting up in recent months, spurred ever higher by the Federal Reserve’s money printing and jawboning. The resulting record highs in the headline indexes have been widely trumpeted by Wall Street as evidence of a strong...

We have not checked in on this motley crew at the public site in a long time (NFTRH keeps a running tab each week). Here are the monthly views of the basket cases we call major currencies. Uncle Buck and his reserve status were leveraged to the hilt by “The Hero”...

Most everybody has seen the Wizard of Oz, but most don’t understand that it is a story about the removal of Gold from behind the dollar and the Federal Reserve at that time. The wizard was supposed to be the Federal Reserve chairman of that time, pulling levers on...

It was a jarring wakeup call this past Monday July 14, 2014 when everyone discovered that gold had plummeted some $30 overnight. It was the largest one-day drop for gold in 2014 and it almost was as large a down as the up day on June 19, 2014 following the June FOMC...

The last few years we have witnessed what may be described as a “zombie” bull market in US stocks. What do we mean by that? We have all seen those old zombie movies where deathly figures come lurching forward out of the darkness, determined to make the remaining...

Tonight I would like to take a look at the US dollar as its been showing a little strength lately. Over the last month or two I’ve been showing some commodities indexes that have been very weak which I think has to do with the strengthening US dollar. The move up in...

Without looking at the facts and issues involved one would think that the U.S. can reach into any land outside its borders [except Russia] and impose its tax will and political will on others. The cases against the Swiss banks, UBS, Credit Suisse and other banks...

This article is a re-issue of an article produce for the Gold Forecaster newsletter a month ago. In view of the recent COMEX “bear-raid” on the gold price we felt it pertinent to reproduce it again.

July 16, 2014. The first two days this week gold was subjected to a series of computer HFT-driven “flash crashes” that were aimed at cooling off the big move higher gold has made since the beginning of June. During this move higher, the hedge funds, who typically “...

Are the general stock markets and precious metals and precious metals equities about to experience a reversal in fortunes? Based upon current evidence, I think so.

Rarely do financial writers go back and reference work from years gone by. It forces us to face up to our mistakes! Or on occasion, it validates that we actually do know what we’re talking about and did call it right. I’m proudly going to take advantage of the...

It is finally happening in full view, in unmistakable manner, in a way that the awake, the aware, and the conscious can perceive in alarming stunning terms. The central force of Europe, the industrial juggernaut, the stable core, has begun to pivot East. The Germans...

While building a growth-and-income portfolio for retirement, many investors have properly addressed steps 1, 2, and 3 in the list below. As we will demonstrate via step 4, portfolios consisting of a diversified basket of blue-chip dividend payers may leave investors...

There will undoubtedly be financial crises in the future; but will the next one be as acute as the last? We believe the financial system today is as risky as it was in 2007, if not more. The difference we see is that the policy tools used to extinguish earlier...

Mother Nature does not lie or deceive. She speaks the ultimate truth regardless of any manipulative attempts by any source. This monthly gold chart is and will continue to be the absolute truth as told to us by Mother Nature.

There’s a widespread belief that Western investors only buy strength, while Eastern investors only buy weakness. That’s not completely accurate.

It is said that, “If you live by the sword, you die by the sword.” Let’s expand the concept and confirm that ancient bit of wisdom. If you depend upon your sword for self-defense and aggression, you can reasonably expect that someday you will meet another swordsman...

With the stock market edging up with nary a decent pullback in yonks, I thought it timely to investigate the Volatility Index (VIX). Let’s commence proceedings by looking at the daily chart.

Gold prices fell sharply on Monday after posting their sixth straight weekly gain. The price of the yellow metal came under some initial selling pressure during the Asian and European session, but on the opening of Comex when some trader dumped an estimated $1.7...

A few weeks ago, forecasters were almost ready to hand the World Cup trophy to Brazil. The future is difficult to predict, and thus, Germans are celebrating today. In recent weeks, it has been easy to find bullish comments related to gold based on inflation worries...

What a difference six months can make. After a disappointing 2013, the commodities market came roaring back full throttle, outperforming the S&P 500 Index by more than 4 percentage points and 10-year Treasury bonds by more than 6.

Gold is often shunned by investors in favor of stocks. As Warren Buffett has noted, Gold doesn’t do anything “but look at you.” It doesn’t pay a dividend or produce cash flow. However, the fact of the matter is that Gold has dramatically outperformed the stock...

In previous reports on the AUDNZD, I have stated that the longer term technicals appear bullish. Hence I have been looking for an opportunity to enter into long positions on this recent pullback. There was an aborted attempt around a month ago but there now appears...