Gold Editorials & Commentary

Long term – on major sell signal since Mar 2012. Short term – on buy signals. Gold sector cycle – up as of 12/27. COT data is favorable for a bear market rally.

Current investing model favors equities and both the growth and energy sector are on major buy signals. However, there has not been a multi week correction in the major indexes for over a year now, most likely due to the four year cycle phenomenon and influence....

Beginning in 1999, we predicted a systemic economic collapse that would take place in the First World and would impact all other economies. We began to list some of the "dominoes" that would fall as the collapse evolved and described that the "Great Unravelling," as...

Ian Gordon doesn't look like a prophet of doom. A vice-president of Canaccord Capital, one of the major brokerage companies in Canada, the affable 62-year-old is more at home in a sober jacket and tie rather than gypsy head scarf. With his conservative dress and...

A subscriber said he had heard a number of talking heads claiming that we are in a secular bull market, and he wondered what I thought. My gut reaction was to say "no way", but then I got to thinking about it.

Chart Analysis On Gold, GDX, GDXJ And Silver Stocks Ratio via videos.

Investors’ interest in silver is starting to rebound after last year’s carnage. As capital prepares to return to this beaten-down asset, many investors are wondering how to game silver price action. Gold is the key. The white metal closely mirrors and amplifies...

A number of readers and bloggers have recently suggested there must be collusion between America and China over the transfer of physical gold from Western capital markets. They assume that governments know what they are doing, so there is a bigger game afoot of...

2014 the year of truth! A US dollar crisis, interest rates spiking and worldwide debt growing out of control and gold and silver through the roof! Conclusion

Seasoned and long term investors are familiar with the effects of price suppression.

Nick Laird’s “Gold Charts ‘R’ Us” may be the best source of gold charts in the world (www.sharelynx.com). Nick has literally 1000’s of pages and 10,000’s of charts on gold as well as silver, stocks and numerous other things. Indeed, I suspect I have barely touched...

“The inability to predict outliers implies the inability to predict the course of history. . .But we act as though we are able to predict historical events, or, even worse, as if we are able to change the course of history. We produce thirty-year projections of...

There is no need to beat around the bush. Junior mining stocks have bottomed. The bear market is over. Sure we could be wrong. We’ve been wrong before and will be again. However, the evidence is too compelling and is growing by the day.

As most readers know, Doug Casey's most notable characteristic as an investor is his highly successful contrarian nature. It's how he bagged some of his biggest wins-not just doubles and triples, but 10- and 20-fold returns.

The XAU/USD pair (Gold vs. the American dollar) fell two days in a row as some investors continued to cover their long positions after the latest reports released from the Unite States fuelled expectations that the Federal Reserve will continue trimming monetary...

There remains a debate over whether gold and silver prices are ‘manipulated’, although perhaps the debate should actually be are the prices manipulated by central banks, governments and the major investment banks in an attempt to control (suppress) prices.

2014 the year of truth! A US dollar crisis, interest rates spiking and worldwide debt growing out of control and gold and silver through the roof! (Part 2)

There are several cardinal reasons why gold will be continually buoyed upward in the future.

2014 the year of truth! A US dollar crisis, interest rates spiking and worldwide debt growing out of control and gold and silver through the roof! (Part 1)

The S&P500 has been in Major wave Elliott Wave 3 up of Primary wave 3 from 1267 by our best projected counts. Our technical analysis of stock trends predicted back in early September a large rally up in the S&P500 to 1822-1829, which we managed to see hit...

Back in late 2004 during the first year of the Hat Trick Letter, my father had a conversation with me on his front porch. He was concerned about a negative streak in my perspective and a critical slant in my analytic work. He actually helped me in writing style, not...

Fractional reserve banking and central banking began their reign of destruction upon our financial world a few centuries ago. Politician’s greed and need for control over people have been ever present. Their mutual interests created an unholy union from which were...

Despite the painful decline in gold and gold shares that persisted throughout the entire year, we believe that the fundamental case for both remains strong. It seems to us that the correction has left the entire sector sold out and friendless. As contrarians, our...

If gold miners got destroyed in 2013, junior gold miners got taken to the woodshed, obliterated, then eviscerated. You really can’t find a more beaten up sector over the past 3 years. You can’t find a sector that is more hated, where more pessimism and fear reign...

WHEN the stock market comes crashing down like it did in 1929, the DOW could feasibly go from 16,150 to 1,700 a 90% drop! The U.S. GDP would also plummet by $1 trillion in economic value today.

Goldilocks is the term used by Wall Street to describe a nearly perfect environment for stock values to rise. The term is being used again today, just as it was mistakenly uttered in the middle of the housing bubble, to express the belief held by most investors that...

In 1973, as heavyweight boxing champion Joe Frazier was knocked to the canvass by George Foreman, Howard Cosell uttered the now-famous words, “Down goes Frazier!”

The USA thrived during a 20th century rife with war, famine and depression. This was a wealthy country however, founded on principles of self-reliance and valuing thrift, saving and honest work for an honest return. Add in unparalleled productivity and...

According to a famous trader of the past, W. D. Gann: “Time is more important (in markets), than price; when time is up, price will reverse.” It has now been 29 months since gold last reached a new high in its current bull market cycle. The downtrend lasted 22...

Currently the mining shares are still selling at near record discounted values with the gold price in the $1220 range. At this point, even a sideways gold price could support a major rally in the gold mining shares.