Gold Editorials & Commentary

Got gold? Got silver? If not, you may not survive very well under the current and future regime[s] established in this country. Does price matter? Sure, everyone wants to buy reasonably near the lows, and there are many of us who paid substantially higher prices...

Long term – on major sell signal since Mar 2012 when $HUI was at 550. Short term – on buy signals. Gold sector cycle – up as of 11/14. A bear market rally is in progress. COT data suggests lower metal prices overall going forward.

The precious metals market isn’t really all about metals. Well, it sort of is but it is not ONLY about metals. Mining stocks are a significant part of the market and one that is very much interesting for gold and silver investors. In this commentary, we try to give...

2015 is upon us and the turbulence has already begun. 2014 was another year of an uneasy calm interrupted by sudden bouts of abrupt market volatility. We were surprised how risk appetite remained so high despite emerging and a high level of risk especially from the...

2014 ended with two ominous developments: the strength of the US dollar and a collapse in key commodity prices. It is tempting to view both events as one, but the continuing fall in oil prices through December reveals they are sequential: first there was a greater...

Gold Jobs, Silver Slow, US$, DOW, GDX & GDXJ analysis via videos.

The gold miners have seen impressive investor interest in their beaten-down stocks in this young new year, with capital inflows fueling a sharp rally. And this buying is likely just beginning, as major market changes are afoot that should catapult gold much higher...

Contrary to every publicized commodity and stock market expert on this planet earth, gold did not, I repeat did not top at $1,923.70 an ounce in the month of September, 2011. Gold topped at $1,033.90 in the month of March 2008.

Yet another country has requested that their gold be repatriated from the United States! Netherlands was the newest nation to announce this past November that they too had requested that $5 billion of their gold be repatriated from New York.

For those looking for a possible major bottom in gold and the beginning of a new bull market in 2015 they might be disappointed. For those looking for at least a temporary bottom in gold followed by a recovery rally in 2015 they might be pleased.

The current trendy reason for the mainstream to dislike Gold is strength in the US Dollar. On the surface it makes quite a bit of sense. Gold is priced in dollars. Dollar strength automatically pressures the Gold price. However, this popular view reveals a total...

Unfortunately, very few investors in the world are cognizant of the relative performance of the gold price vis-à-vis the traditional world stock markets...as demonstrated by the chart below (2001 to 2014). It shows the percent gain or loss over 14 years:

Three months ago, I wrote “2008 is back, with one temporary exception”; which, in hindsight, parallels May’s “most damning proof yet of QE failure” as the most important articles published in the past year. The latter refers to the abject failure, based on plunging...

We have seen unprecedented volatility over the last 2 months, in particular the last 3 weeks. This is highly unusual as most year ends and beginnings are calm with very little news. The news on a global scale has had the volume turned up so that nearly no market has...

In anticipation of the New Year ahead, I pulled together 15 charts that we’ll be watching and might help guide our expectations for what 2015 has in store for us.

This article is based on an interview conducted by Claudio Grass, the Managing Director of Global Gold based in Switzerland, with Mr. Steen Jakobsen. Mr. Jakobsen is the Chief Economist and Chief Investment Officer at Saxo Bank, where he has served for a total of 14...

With commodities now moving down into their three year cycle low I’m hearing more and more talk about deflation. This is complete nonsense. Bernanke had it exactly right when he pointed out that any determined government could halt deflation at will with a printing...

The purpose of this article is to illustrate the continuous strength of the US Dollar from back in September 2014 -- and how we are not even at the half way point yet for this current move. The US Dollar Index is thought to be in a bull market for another 5-7 years...

Tonight I would like to touch on several different areas in regards to our trades we have going right now. First lets look at the INDU and some of the reasons I went short yesterday. The daily chart shows a rising wedge in which the price action closed below the...

After the 1999 gold crisis, bankers could no longer force the price of gold lower by loaning central bank gold and selling it in the open market. In 2001, as demand—and the price of gold—rose, the bankers were forced to flood markets with discounted ‘paper gold’,...

In the world of fiat currencies, 2014 was the best of times and the worst of times. On the one hand, we had Japan’s Shinzo Abe and his Keynesian cohorts, who have relentlessly devalued the Yen with the hope that a cheap currency would eventually ring in the best of...

Review of yesterday’s gold and silver market activity and trends in gold and silver prices.

We came into last year with the idea that despite a historically low disposition at 3 percent, the 10-year yield had become stretched at a relative performance extreme. In less than two years, yields had run up over 100% above the July 2012 cycle lows around 1.4...

The correction in the price of gold and silver is now in its fourth year, and in the words of W. D. Gann: “When time is up – price will turn.”

And today we are witnessing the perfect set-up for a huge rally in gold and silver. The dollar index, which weights the US currency against a basket of major trading counterparts, hit its highest level in nine years in the last week of 2014, rising of 13% over the...

Is the recent bout in volatility yet another ‘buy-the-dip’ opportunity or a sign of worse to come? Investors struggle to both keeping up with the markets while protecting themselves against a severe correction. By taking a step back, investors might be able to see...

In late 2013, I predicted the Fed would taper its QE program to zero, and the first taper would cause gold to rally, stunning the Western gold community. I also predicted the taper would turn the US stock market into a “wet noodle.” That’s what happened.

2014 was a year of posturing. The U.S. "postured" by trying to lure Mr. Putin and Russia into a war. First it was over Syria and then later over Ukraine. The Russians postured by not taking the bait and buying time. Yes, Russia has suffered with a devaluing currency...

Tensions between Russia and the West continue to push precious metals higher.  Gold climbed back above the critical $1200 mark.  Once again the Greek debacle is coming back to haunt markets as investors fear another decline in the Euro.

There is a lot of news chatter about the impending doom of the Russian Economy. The Ruble has fallen 45% against the Dollar during the last 6 months. Crude oil & gas, Russia’s main exports, have fallen in half from 6 months ago. Russia depends on oil & gas...