Gold Editorials & Commentary

This market is amazing!

Gold miners have to be the most hated sector in the markets these days.  At best they’ve been forgotten as the hyper-complacent general stock markets continue to inexplicably levitate.  At worst they’re utterly despised.  But the breathtaking bearishness chokin

We have seen a great deal in the media about the best place to hold your gold, so would like to address the issue in real terms.

5 Reasons Gold Will Set an All-Time Record In 2013

Have cycles have been overpowered by central bank intervention?  This is a question that many investors have been asking in view of the stock market's relentless strength since November.

Trading with the trend should be your main focus for long term success no matter what type of trader you are (Options Trader, Stock Trader, or ETF Trader) although it’s not as easy as it sounds.

“The central banks’ gold is likely gone, and the bullion banks that sold it have no realistic chance of getting it back” Eric Sprott tells us.

The stock market has been on a tear since 2009 and currently displays a 6.5% stock market rally over the last three months, so why are billionaires quietly dumping their American stocks fast?  I have been predicting a drop in the market of 30-50% but you can’t

Every once in a while, someone utters a statement that suddenly galvanizes the issue at hand.

Silver and silver mining stocks are front and center for investors and active traders. Because of silvers high volatility (large price swings) it naturally attracts a lot of attention.

Gold’s technical breakdown suffered in its recent capitulation selloff naturally unleashed a flood of bearish sentiment.  Traders are totally convinced gold’s woes are just starting, that the worst is yet to come.  This pessimistic worldview is largely universa

GLD – on sell signal.

Last week I outlined a very bearish larger picture for the precious metals.  I haven’t seen anything to change that view occur this past week with the exception of palladium.

To put the current financial situation in perspective, here's a long-term history of the debt-to-GDP ratio, which reached a record high at the beginning of the current crisis.

Even though the newsletter I write for Casey Research is focused primarily on gold, our metals investments cover all the precious metals, and when warranted, some base-metals plays too.

The Dow reached an all-time high of 14,253 on Tuesday and naturally, the financial press drew lots of attention to this fact.  Conspicuously absent from the media attention, however, was a complete lack of enthusiasm.  The perma-bull cheering section was eerily

home: Golden Jackass website

The propaganda has turned openly laughable. On the popular major financial news networks, the recent decline in the so-called Gold price has prompted quite the parade of clowns on the ship of fools to trumpet nonsense.

Every baseball player knows the saying, “3 strikes and you’re out!”  Well, the dollar bugs may be about to strike out, against silver bullion. 

Featured is the weekly gold chart, with the US dollar at the top. Five times during the past five years did gold and the US dollar rise in tandem. The sixth time could happen any day. In 1973 and in 2005, gold and the mining stocks rose along with the U.S. dollar...

Nobody ever said riding a (gold) bull market was easy. Unless you’re prepared to buy, close your eyes, and come back years later, then I’m afraid we have to take the good with the bad.

Over the past year my long term trends and outlooks have not changed for gold, oil or the S&P500. Though there has been a lot of sideways price action to keep everyone one their toes and focused on the short term charts.