Gold Editorials & Commentary

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.

We cannot control the markets, but we can control how to respond to what they are saying. The paper market has been turned into a circus, thanks to JP Morgan, and abetted by the exchanges, COMEX and LME.

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There are monumental ramifications to China's dire and urgent necessity to buy gold to diversity foreign reserves.

A great week once again but for different reasons than of late.  While we had some amazing gains recently, the key way booking those gains.  It’s sometimes easy to get on board but knowing when to exit is just as important.  Profits do not count until you press

We would like to start with a question from one of our subscribers today, as we believe that it is a good way to show the distinction between tools that help you spot what direction the market is about to move and those that are better suited to time the exact

Two weeks ago we looked at the difference between gold ETF outflows vs. physical gold purchases, and showed that most sales were coming from the former while aggressive buying was coming from the latter.

Silver has suffered horrendously in 2013’s opening months, plunging dramatically to miserable lows.  This exceptional weakness has naturally kindled extreme bearishness.  Predictions abound for silver to continue selling off indefinitely.  But amidst this sever

You know that gold bear market that the financial press keeps touting? The one George Soros keeps proclaiming? Well, it is not there. The gold bear market is disinformation that is helping elites acquire the gold.

This has been one of the worst stretches for gold and silver pricewise in quite some time, no secret there.  I have to go back to when silver was in single digits to find a comparable period.   The question on precious metals investors’ minds is whether this ba

Much has been made about the drop in COMEX gold stocks. COMEX gold stocks have fallen from 11.1 million ounces in the end of 2012 to just under 8 million ounces today.

In a recent post, The Pull from the Future, I discussed how any sort of quantitative model based on statistics, earnings, GDP -- really any extrapolation of past data into the future -- is just not a viable method for forecasting future market behavior.  

Billionaire hedge fund manager, David Tepper, made news this week when he emphatically stated that investors have nothing at all to fear regarding the eventual tapering off of Fed’s $85 billion worth of monthly debt monetization.

China has signaled it is going to propose plans this year to allow freer flows of the Yuan both in and out of the nation as part of measures to loosen control over the Yuan and interest rates.

The physical buying has been overwhelming all over the world

There are several indications that the currency war is heating up, the gloves are coming off and new players are piling into the barroom brawl.

The gold market was smashed as you can see by the collapsing red line which occurred at 6 P.M. Sunday May 19. As far as I am concerned nothing in the bullish picture has been violated. What is meaningful is on the following pages.

I used to half joke with some of my investing friends that the best time to buy stocks is during or right after a crash.  Think 1987, 2000-2002, 2008-09, and now perhaps Gold Miners??

1. Huge rallies begin from these conditions

Let’s take a look at a few graphs of the dollar, from Feb 1, 2013 through Friday May 17, 2013. Yes, I said graphs of the dollar. I’ve priced the dollar in gold first (of course), then silver, the euro, and even the yen. The pattern is obvious.

While The Banking Cartel Tries To Suppress Gold Prices,

Demand For The Physical Metal Increases.

After the 1929 crash, the US Treasury & the Fed worked together.  They revalued gold, and began a program of Quantitative Easing (QE).