Mark Mead Baillie
Market Analyst & Author
Mark Mead Baillie has had an extensive business career beginning in banking and financial services for two years with Banque Nationale de Paris to corporate research for three years at Barclays Bank and then for six years as an analyst and corporate lender with Société Générale.
For the last 22 years he has expanded his financial expertise by creating his own financial services company, de Meadville International, which comprehensively follows his BEGOS complex of markets (Bond/Euro/Gold/Oil/S&P) and the trading of the futures therein. He is recognized within the financial community of demonstrating creative technical skills that surpass industry standards toward making highly informed market assessments and his work is featured in Merrill Lynch Wealth Management client presentations. He has adapted such skills into becoming the popular author each week of the prolific “The Gold Update” and is known in the financial website community as “mmb” and “deMeadville”.
Mr. Baillie holds a BS in Business from the University of Southern California and an MBA in Finance from Golden Gate University.
Mark Mead Baillie Articles
Gold just recorded a second consecutive down week for the first time since a trifecta which respectively ended this past 24 and 31 October, plus 07 November.
American Civil War Union Army General William Tecumseh Sherman coined the infamous phrase: “War is hell”, as woefully we again are witnessing all ’round the Middle East. ‘Tis remindful from the original “35 Undeniable Truths of Life” (...
026 has begun so swiftly! Thus with February already in the books, let us start straightway with our BEGOS Markets Standings, wherein we find Sweet Sister Silver topping this year-to-date table for the seventh month in-a-row, joined on...
We begin with a tip of the cap to mighty JPMorgan Chase, which in recent weeks projected a Gold price (’tis said some several years out toward decade’s end), achieving the 8300 area, and even 6300 this year.
‘Tis a Valentine Day’s edition of The Gold Update, (the only other prior occurrence being back in 2015)! And on the heels of last week’s piece “Gold Reaching Peak Volatility”, our timing has been spot on as Gold’s daily trading range this...
Gold by its daily trading range (intraday low to intraday high, or vice-versa) is establishing point swings “like ya never done seen” –[mmb, ’18]. Gold’s daily range through these first 25 trading days of 2026 has averaged 197 points per...
But is the mayhem yet done? Now obviously no one knows for sure if this recent metals’ mania just hit its maximum price point. So ’tis prudent to understand that superlatives such as “Maxed!” can further be “Maxed!”
Silver yesterday (Friday) at 15:10 GMT saw the current front month contract (March) achieve 100.00 for the very first time, en route to trading as high as 103.53 before settling the week at 103.26. Hearty congratulations to Sweet Sister...
Hardly shall Gold get to 5546 in a straight line. For given today’s milieu of this metals’ mania mayhem, prices — both by valuation and technicals — look as having achieved a max … ’til ’tis onward to the next higher climax.
Six trading days into 2026 find Gold having already netted a year-to-date gain of +4.3% and Silver +12.4%. Or … just in case you’re scoring at home … to go deeper inside the data for the 138 hours so far traded, 81(59%) have been up for...
