Gold Editorials & Commentary

There’s a reason why commercial traders are regression to the mean traders. In this business it is the one thing that you can absolutely bank on. It's like death and taxes, it never fails. All markets eventually return to the mean.

Timing stock market tops and bottoms is risky business and we all know the more the more risk we take the more potential gain would could also make. Correctly timing a top or bottom for any investment is flat out exciting not to mention financially rewarding.

The market is undergoing a correction, but it is enough to call it a top? No. More evidence is required before saying that the Fed has thrown in the towel. If it takes more fiat to keep prices inflated, it will be provided.

So how's the bull market in gold and silver going? As seen below, they are doing just fine. In fact gold and silver are doing better than the Dow Jones 1982-2000 bull market was at its day 2,746 on June 24, 1993.

It was a quiet week for the most part as markets and many stocks setup new patterns to trade off of but in doing so have given us decent intraday moves which can be capitalized on.  I like to take one or two trades per day and am very selective in those trades.

Anybody halfway attuned to the markets knows that copper has been a 21st-century rock star.  No longer just a boring industrial metal, copper is a flamboyant asset that has made fortunes for investors and speculators.  It’s soared a staggering 662% from its 200

Stocks have reached record levels thanks in large part to a coordinated central bank stimulus.  The current financial market-led recovery is unlike previous recoveries in that the economy, unlike the stock market, has been painfully slow to respond to the stimu

This week economists, investors and politicians were treated to some of the "best" home price data since the frothy days of 2006 when home loans were given out like cotton candy and condo flipping was a national pastime.

Stocks have reached record levels thanks in large part to a coordinated central bank stimulus.  The current financial market-led recovery is unlike previous recoveries in that the economy, unlike the stock market, has been painfully slow to respond to the stimu

The price of gold reached an all-time high of $1925 on September 6th 2011. Since then the price dropped to a low point of $1321 on April 16th 2013. A correction of 45% during a bull market is not unusual; as painful as it is for gold bulls. In the process gold...

Alan Greenspan gave them the playbook (Credit & Debt Manipulation 101) and now Ben Bernanke and global inflators everywhere have taken the ball and run with it in new, innovative and levered up ways.  Actually it’s a game of Whack-a-Mole and they play it

As you heard in the European Union conference last weekend, there is a demand from these governments that there be a sharing of banking information. The U.S. is following a similar line as we saw with Google and Apple answering questions on Capitol Hill.

To an extent that reveals a thorough misunderstanding of the market forces, the financial media has failed to consider the different motivations and beliefs that drive the different types of investors who are active in the gold market.

Remember that there is nothing stable in human affairs; therefore avoid undue elation in prosperity, or undue depression in adversity.

- Socrates

Investors should have gained confidence from Ben Bernanke’s recent testimony to Congress that the Federal Reserve intends on being accommodative as long as needed.

The Wall Street Journal ran a piece delineating the two sides of the gold debate giving five reasons why the gold bulls are right a

Gold appears to be entering the “summer doldrums” season, but there are some black swan issues that could add a lot of volatility to the market.

On the rare occasions when the US stock market crashes, the crash never begins immediately after the price peak.

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

The imminent train wreck is picking up speed and your life’s savings will soon evaporate overnight if you do nothing!  You won’t like hearing this but least of all will you enjoy living through it!  The Central Banks control the timing but the

Elliott Waves over the past 12000 years

On behalf of Matterhorn Asset Management / GoldSwitzerland, independent financial journalist Lars Schall interviewed financial markets publisher Tekoa Da Silva about, inter alia, opportunities and risks in the precious metals field, the lack of enforcement of r

Precious metals and their related mining stocks continue to underperform the broad market.

I like looking for market extremes, as they usually occur prior to a major change in the market’s price trend.  One market extreme to follow is the number of 52Wk highs or lows an index is making, as we can see in the chart below where the Dow Jones plot is bou

Stocks were flat Friday, May 24th in light volume pre-holiday trading.