A gap occurs on a bar chart in a bull market when the low for any period (day, week, month) is higher than the high for the immediately preceding period.
Bear's Lair
Bear Markets always follow Bull markets and a severe stock market correction is long overdue. Bears Lair will spot, monitor and analyze the stock market correction as it develops.
To listen to the Bears over the past few years, you would have thought we would all be in breadlines and soup kitchens by now.
There are never ending arguments by many market participants as to what constitutes a bull market, and a bear market. There are many definitions, interpretations, and downright confusions.
To their credit, Wall Street pundits have noted the proliferation of signs warning financial danger; to their peril most have chosen to ignore them.
It's always easy to make investment decisions in hindsight. It's much harder to have a vision for the future.
Technical analysis has issued a loud positive signal for gold investors, and to currency traders. The euro currency is key to the USDollar in recent weeks in the Foreign Exchange markets (FOREX).
The Merriam-Webster Dictionary defines "El Dorado" as a place of fabulous riches or opportunity. In my opinion Eldorado Gold Corp.
[Every once in a while an artist creates a work which weaves a mix of emotions that mimic the real emotions of people in everyday life. Such a work might even become a "classic" if the work is upbeat and tells a simple story.
Monetary inflation*, despite its popularity as a 'cure-all' during times of economic stress, can't possibly bring about an increase in total wealth.
[Every once in a while an artist creates a work which weaves a mix of emotions that mimic the real emotions of people in everyday life.
Despite all the hype, the Commodities:Gold Relative Strength chart remains intact
Gold in US dollar attracted a lot of attention in the past few weeks. It broke $500, went parabolic by reaching $540, then dropped like a rock to touch $494 four days later.
Despite all the hype, the Commodities:Gold Relative Strength chart remains intact
The U.S. dollar, which has staged a counter-trend rally all year, looks like it is finally poised to resume its historic decline.
The USDollar is next to be subjected to a double-barrel assault, call it a shotgun. The first barrel lies in the financial sector.
The word on the street today came out that there is no need to worry about inflation and the market shot up over 100 points, while gold dropped over $25 intraday points in two days.
With gold and silver making new highs every other day, a lot of attention is shifting to the precious metals.
The demand for gold has been exceeding production for over 18 years and there is a tremendous amount of money in the system beginning to aggressively chase gold, a limited commodity.
We have spent some months, now, considering the Precious Metals markets, especially the HUI Index, as being in a great BULL MARKET.
The Russian Central bank is buying up to 1,000 tonnes of gold to double its gold holdings from 500 tonnes, most of which, 377 tonnes, is lent out.
Yesterday I posted a chart of COMEX October 1979 gold, showing the very nice run gold had back in '79.
An article in yesterday's Wall Street Journal discussed how self-proclaimed "Depression buff" Ben Bernanke claims understanding of how the Fed caused the Great Depression and precisely what he would do to prevent such a calamity fr
Tis the time of the year when analysts and market observers are busily presenting their forecasts and outlooks for 2006, and as always, it will be a mass confusion for the investing public, as both bulls and bears will showcase the
The market price for an ounce of gold rose to over $500 last week, a significant milestone for economists watching precious metals and commodities markets.
Random Walk, the name of a well-known theoretical market model of random price movements, definitely does not exist in the gold market.
This purpose of this article is to examine the veracity of the claim made in the first line of my debut article "Silver: A Rare Opportunity"