Gold Editorials & Commentary

Ben Bernanke, Janet Yellen, and Alan Greenspan have explicitly stated within the last few months that stock markets are not in a bubble. History shows their track record on such predictions is embarrassing, which has left both Greenspan and Bernanke grasping for...

There are very few price areas where risk capital can be invested in gold, with a reasonable degree of confidence that a “significant low point” will be established there.

Recently, the global gold market has been dominated by the situation in Crimea and the latest Federal Open Market Committee. After trading above the $1,390 an ounce level for the first time since September 2013, gold’s upward momentum was thwarted by the outcome of...

Delusions die hard! The delusions regarding the value of paper currency, usefulness of the Fed, government entitlements, the welfare and warfare state, and continual growth are weakening. The ultimate reckoning may be sudden or slow, but it will not be pretty for...

It seems that the last thing the internet needs right now is another story on the Crimea but this is an older story. Doug Casey once said he thought there should be 7 billion independent countries in the world - one for every human being on the planet. Just what is...

Despite last week’s pullback, the precious metals market is off to an impressive start in 2014. Gold is up 10.6%, silver 4.3%, and the PHLX Gold/Silver (XAU) 17.1%. Gold, in particular, had a great February, rising above $1,300 for the first time since November 7,...

Briefly: In our opinion short speculative positions in silver (half) and mining stocks (full) are justified from the risk/reward perspective. Friday was generally a calm day in the precious metals market and for the currency indices. The initial moves higher (in the...

As a native Canadian, hockey is in my blood, but after moving to Texas, the icy arenas changed to basketball courts, as the sole major league sports team in the city is the San Antonio Spurs. We’re proud fans, too, as the Spurs currently hold the best record in the...

As we all know last week was a tough week in the PM sector. The real question we have to ask is whether this was just a short term correction in the uptrend that started at the December low or is this the end of the three month rally? We’ll look at some charts to...

Internationally known technical analyst Adam Hamilton expressed it well: “The gold-mining sector is on the verge of flashing the fabled Golden Cross Buy Signal. This is one of the most powerful and revered indicators in all of technical analysis. When it arrives...

Last week, SPX re-tested its 1883 high but was only able to surpass it by a fraction before being pushed back. Another attempt is likely this week if the pattern it is making is correctly being analyzed as an ending diagonal. This should be followed by another...

The rise in gold bullion prices since the beginning of the year has been very hard to digest for those who said the precious metal is useless. To me, this rise in gold bullion prices isn’t surprising at all.

With markets showing they need some time I took last weekend off to go away and get some skiing in so my apologies to the many who’ve emailed wondering my thoughts on gold and silver this past week.

From our perspective, the charts reflect the reality of the unreal within the ruling Western elites that continue their financial stranglehold over every Western government, at a minimum, and through their central banks dictating how governments are to rule the...

Long term – on major sell signal since Mar 2012. Short term – on sell signals. Gold sector cycle – down as of 3/21, ending the up cycle since 12/27.

Current investing model favors equities and both the growth and energy sector are on major buy signals. Investors should stay invested and new money should wait for the 4 year cycle bottom in coming months.

Its game on in the resource space at long last. There are plenty of market players that are still cautious but that is how it should be early in a bull market. Technically, we need to be 20% off the bottom for a Bull to be official but it seems very unlikely we...

History was made in Ukraine this weekend as an overwhelming majority of Crimean slaves (96%; turnout of 83%) self-determined that they wanted to pay tribute to the Russian oligarchs instead of the Ukraine oligarchs.
The Crimean parliament passed a bill to adopt the...

Unless you’ve been living under a rock then you have witnessed the now false breakout in Gold and gold stocks. Our expectation was that the breakout would take Gold to $1420 and the stocks up to their neckline resistance (GDX $30 and GDXJ $51) and then we’d see the...

The red flags contained in the national and global headlines that have come out thus far in 2014 should have spooked investors and economic forecasters. Instead the markets have barely noticed. It seems that the majority opinion on Wall Street and Washington is that...

Gold is at a crossroads. No the gold chart is not “that sinking feeling” but gold has reached point where it must either break out or fail. That would turn gold into that “sinking feeling”. The bullhorn pattern is rather interesting. I first learned about the...

The gold-mining sector is on the verge of flashing the fabled Golden Cross buy signal. This is one of the most powerful and revered indicators in all of technical analysis. When it arrives after the right conditions, it flags the critical transition from bear to...

Chart Analysis Gold Fibonacci, Silver, US$, GDX & GDXJ via videos.

There is a fascinating story from Robert Peston, the BBC's business editor about his interview with Hank Paulson, who was the US treasury secretary at the time of the Lehman crisis. Paulson said that he was told by the Chinese that they had a message from the...

I've had some recent conversations with attorneys who were considering class-action lawsuits regarding a gold price manipulation stemming from reports about the London Gold Fix. I told them that while there is no doubt that gold and, particularly, silver are...

Briefly: In our opinion short speculative positions in silver (half) and mining stocks (full) are justified from the risk/reward perspective.

I had the privilege of interviewing Louis James, the chief metals & mining investment strategist at Casey Research. Louis is the editor of Casey International Speculator, the first subscription newsletter I ever bought, and I am holding a good number of his...

Do you recall that last week I pointed out some interesting research on the monthly price of gold, from our friend Jeff Clark, that March was gold’s worst performing month of the year. I found that very surprising, but wrote that if gold finished this month “up” (...

Fundamentally, Gold should soon start the final 3rd phase of this long-term bull market.

Gold seems to be sparking more attention these days, as investors have seen the precious metal steadily rise from its December low of around $1,200, to a new high of $1,350 just three months later.