Gold Editorials & Commentary

A leading precious metals consultancy, Thomson Reuters GFMS, has forecast that investors will buy record amounts of gold in the remainder of 2012. GFMS produces the benchmark supply and demand statistics for the gold market.

There was plenty of hoopla last week. The Federal Reserve's announcement Thursday of a third round of quantitative easing sent investors scrambling for gold and silver.

GLD - on buy signal.

Silver has certainly enjoyed an impressive run of late, catapulting nearly a third higher since mid-summer. Because this surge looks nearly vertical on short-term charts, some traders are getting nervous about this rally's staying power.

An Appropriate Quote

The great H.L. Mencken wrote:

The last several weeks have really changed the look of the HUI and the precious metals complex in general. In this report I would like to examine the HUI going back to the October 2008 bottom to the present.

Last week was a momentous one when the financial world passed the point of no return.

With yesterday's Fed decision and press conference, Chairman Ben Bernanke finally and decisively laid his cards on the table. And confirming what I have been saying for many years, all he was holding was more of the same snake oil and bluster.

GLD - on buy signal.

Stock and commodity prices across the board soared on the latest announcement from the Fed, which was viewed as wildly bullish by Wall Street.

Silver is mined year-round at a fairly constant rate across the globe. Thus it is somewhat counterintuitive that this metal would exhibit marked seasonal tendencies tied to the calendar. But it sure does.

The price of silver reached a 5-month high this past week as investor interest seems to have been rekindled in both gold and silver as belief in financial markets increases that the latest round of monetary easing from the Federal Reserve - QE3 - will soon be o

In this weekend report I would like to focus in on some of the longer term weekly and monthly charts for gold but would like to start off with just one daily chart.

Most investors were duped by the mainstream financial media into thinking that the broad US stockmarket made an important upside breakout last week, but according to our charts it did no such thing.

Last week was pivotal for equities as well as a reminder that the 3-½ year-old recovery is still alive.

GLD - on buy signal.

After weathering a long consolidation followed by a major correction, gold stocks remain deeply out of favor today. But this bearish sentiment is slowly yielding as gold powers higher in its usual autumn rally.

For the first time in over 30 years, talk of a return to the gold standard has become part of mainstream politics in the United States.

The Hippocratic Oath dictates never to do harm to the patient.

Gold's latest rally - and the dollar's recent decline - has the investing world buzzing with speculation as to the meaning behind it. Convention wisdom says that gold senses another round of loose money on the part of the world's leading central banks.

Both the VIX (S&P500 Volatility Index) as well as the Bollinger Bands Indicators gave us buy signals on Friday, August 31st, which goes along with what I have been talking (speculating) about over the last few months.

The Fractal Gold chart work is a direct comparison of Gold, today, to the late 70's Gold Parabola.

GLD - on buy signal.

[Before reading this update on Fractal Silver, you might wish to skim through my recent public article, "Fractal Gold Review and Update" since it discusses key timing issues that this article is based upon.]

Gold was a star performer during the month of August, outshining other assets in an impressive rally which took many investors by surprise.

It has been a year since the price of gold bullion topped out and even longer for silver. Many traders and investors have been patiently waiting for this long term consolidation pattern to breakout and trigger the rally for precious metals and miner stocks.

Begin with a preface to a meaningful event that could change the entire US landscape, a redux of what happened four years ago. Consider the next Wall Street financial firm failure. It is in progress. It is not avoidable. It will have numerous ramifications.