Gold Editorials & Commentary

At the beginning of the month I theorized that stocks were about to enter a final bubble phase, and that during that process gold should deliver a capitulation phase to end the three year bear market. This is a follow up to see how things are playing out now that we...

Another volatile week for markets. Moreover, leading stocks are being battered and most earnings numbers, even if good, cause a large sell-off, even after a large initial gap higher. It remains a dangerous market with not much to do. A lot of investors and traders...

One of the biggest problems for the West, the US in particular, is its increasingly parochial perspective from the narrowest of lenses, fully colored by the elite’s use of its main propaganda machine, the Maintstream Media. It will not work for people to expect...

Long term – on major sell signal since Mar 2012. Short term – on mixed signals. Gold sector cycle – down as of 3/21, ending the up cycle since 12/27. COT data is not supportive for higher prices overall.

John Kerry and other U.S. officials and once again banging the war drums. In the most recent comments, Kerry said that the United States is “ready to act against Russia.” The truth is that the U.S. has been acting against Russia for quite some time in various ways....

The figures are out and it looks like the United States exported a record amount of gold to Hong Kong in January. Not only was this a one month record… it was a WHOPPER indeed.

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Gold’s sharp selloffs since mid-March have been mostly driven by American futures speculators’ heavy selling. These traders dramatically slashed their long bets on gold while ramping up their shorts. The resulting deluge of supply flooded the market and...

Systemic failure and its pathogenesis have been over 50 years in progress, with countless events. The origin is found with the cabal murder Kennedy, but the climax finale will be found with the Saudi Petro-Dollar rejection and the arrival of Eastern gold-backed...

Silver and gold price sentiment is an unmentionable reflection of the desires of central banking, backed by a currency enforced by decree.

In the two months since my last update on USD Fiat Money Quantity, it has increased by $292 billion to $12.861 trillion and is still growing rapidly as shown in the chart below. It is now 70.6% above where it would have been if it had grown at the long-term pre-...

Admittedly I had some reservations in 2006, when we originally began explaining the merits of palladium ownership.  Not because I didn’t believe in

For all the recent depressing price action in gold and silver, really nothing has changed in the past year. Take silver’s BEV chart as an example, below we see where in April of 2013 it was bushwhacked to its BEV -60% from its BEV -40% line in just a matter of...

Recently, it was reported Warren Buffett the world’s richest man is accumulating massive amounts of cash, implying stocks may be over-valued. The Sage of Omaha’s net worth tops $63 Billion, which was made entirely from his stock market investments over the decades...

The bottoming process for gold and silver shares has been arduous as they’ve oscillated back and forth for almost a year. We noted a month ago that the failed breakout in March was strong evidence that an interim top was in place. Heading into this week it looked...

Briefly: In our opinion no speculative positions are justified from the risk/reward perspective. Yesterday’s price action in the precious metals market might seem perplexing to some investors and there’s good reason for it. Gold declined, but silver didn’t, and...

In many countries, inflation is beginning to creep higher. Please click here now. That’s the Australia CPI (Consumer Price Index), courtesy of Trading Economics. The next report will be released today. Note the recent jump in prices. It comes as the Western...

Today I want to talk about crises. Two of the most notable ones that have been in the public eye over the course of the past 6-8 months are obviously the conflicts in Ukraine and Syria. The two are very different, yet both seemed to cause rallies in the gold market...

Among its 29 pages of high quality market analysis, this week’s edition reviewed the Commitments of Traders (CoT) structures of a few markets and their implications.

In the context of the magnitude of the rally from the December lows that preceded it, gold’s reaction from its March highs, see 1-year chart below, seems like a reasonable correction, although there have been some factors indicating that this is not a normal healthy...

In today’s Weekend Report I’m going to post a ton of charts so you can see what I’m seeing and why the Kamikaze Portfolio is fully invested in the 3 X short the precious metals complex etf’s. Before we look at the charts we need to discuss why it’s so important to...

China’s love and lust for gold is becoming increasingly voracious for several reasons. The next six years are expected to see China’s middle-class grow by over 60%, or 200 million people, to a total of 500 million," write the analysts at the World Gold Council. "...

Gallup poll ranks gold second best long term investment after real estate. Under normal circumstances, I might let a rutty headline about gold in the Financial Times pass without much notice. I say “rutty” because the Financial Times has long been stuck in a rut as...

The ebb and flow of futures and weak handed speculator games on the COMEX have been in place for decades and continues to shape sentiment and market commentary.

Last week a report from the World Gold Council suggested that around 1,000 tonnes of gold is being used as collateral in Chinese commodity financing deals that would be unwound if the shadow banking complex was to collapse. Not surprisingly news of such a supply...

A Rich Man Poor/Man Partnership never works: der Euro Union ist Kaputt

W D Gann has long been recognized as an astute market trader, and followers of Gann have been trying to figure out his genius. The best way to describe how he made so many successful market calls is, in a word, astrology. Having died in 1955, we did not know him,...

Volatility reigned supreme again this past week as many stocks look to have put lows in now just as earnings season is really heating up. Lots of big companies are reporting in the weeks ahead and could move this market and stocks higher if earnings are good. At...

The lofty stock markets are starting to wobble, with selloffs’ frequency and sharpness increasing. The dominant reason the Fed’s stock levitation is running out of steam is severe overvaluation. Stocks are just far too expensive today compared to historic...

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