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 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...
5546 is our forecast Gold high for 2026. When we set upon such annual analysis for this year, we admittedly felt a bit snarky in perhaps selecting the year’s high as “the opening tick”, which yesterday (Friday) was 4340. After all, Gold...
To Gold: With specific respect to this week’s title, our missive from back on 06 September, (the 14th anniversary of 2011’s All-Time Intraday Gold High at 1923), was queryingly entitled “Is Gold (Again) Getting Ahead of Itself?” The key...
Merry metals, indeed! En route to finishing the final full trading week of 2025, both Gold and Silver made fresh All-Time Highs! “Surprise, surprise, surprise!”
We are “pleased as punch” –[Hubert H. Humphrey, circa ’60s] to proclaim that Gold just completed yet another “failed” weekly parabolic Short trend of but three weeks, settling higher yesterday (Friday) at an All-Time Weekly Closing High of...
So let’s begin with the Gold/Silver ratio, by which these last several years we’ve gone on time-and-again as to the white metal being “the better buy” over the yellow metal. Thus straight away from the “Everything Reverts to the Mean Dept...
