Gold Editorials & Commentary

Our proprietary cycle indicator is now DOWN. Long term – on BUY signal. Short term – on sell signals. Gold sector cycle is DOWN. A correction is in progress.

Here are today's videos and charts.  The videos are viewable on mobile phones as well as computers.

The gold miners’ stocks are still running higher in a mounting upleg.  These sector gains accelerated into mid-April, spawning fears of excessive overboughtness.  While somewhat stretched, gold stocks’ leading benchmark remained nowhere near potentially-terminal...

I wrote the article with the above title in February 2019. The projection that the Dow could lose 98% in real terms (GOLD) is today even more likely, creating the biggest wealth transfer in history.

Gold and the US Federal Reserve have a love-hate relationship. Hate because they both enjoy it when the other one performs badly, but love it because the Fed owns over 8,000 tonnes of gold and would rather no one else had any.

The attack on the metals looked very bearish on Tuesday, the Fed is very desperate to fight inflation, and there will be more attacks. Right when there is a breakout, when traders are pulled in…the attack.

The battle for $2000 gold continues and the horrific tension between the governments of the East and the West intensifies.

Despite increased war tensions, gold failed to break above $2,000. What’s worse, rising USDX and interest rates are already lurking on the horizon.

In the world of trends, history repeats more than it rhymes. Things which were considered “in” decades ago, reemerge as cool again decades later. From mom jeans to vinyl records and even Marxist ideology. The spotlight of today turns to things—both good and bad—once...

While gold prices remain elevated and investors continue to ignore the implications of the Fed’s rate hike cycle, a reality check should emerge sooner rather than later. For example, Bank of America’s latest Global Fund Manager Survey shows that institutional...

There are just a few times in ones investing career, depending how early you start and if you survive long enough, that you are witness to some extraordinary changes from the MACRO scale perspective.

Ed Steer joins us to discuss the recent Nickel Squeeze on the London Metals Exchange. The declining inventories of many key metals is reaching critical levels.

Few investors under the age of sixty have even heard the name “Jesse Livermore” and even fewer have read as much as one page ever written by the legendary author “Edwin Lefevre” who wrote what many consider their personal investment “bible of sorts” in the classic “...

The Russian central bank recently announced that it will stop buying gold at a fixed rate and will instead buy it at the negotiated rate from banks. Following the numerous sanctions imposed on Russia, the ruble had fallen tremendously against the US dollar, to get...

Because gold and crude oil are both denominated in US dollars, they are strongly linked. That is because as the US dollar rises, commodities priced in USD fall, and vice versa. As the dollar drops, commodities generally go up.

The best performing precious metal for the week was silver, up 3.90%, likely on the stronger inflation data reported this week, which of course silver loves. Technically, $26.00 continues to act as major resistance to a price breakout.

In this week’s Live from the Vault, the author of the Mining Stock Journal, Dave Kranzler, joins Andrew Maguire once again to contemplate the changing dynamic of how paper and physical markets interact.

It has been said that the more things change, the more they remain the same. That is certainly true of gold prices. Let’s look at the following three charts in succession. Then we’ll talk about them… Current Gold Prices (inflation-adjusted) – 100 Year Historical...

Gold's settling out the abbreviated trading week this past Thursday at 1977 was the yellow metal's second-highest year-to-date weekly close, bettered only by that ending 11 March at 1992.

This week, the Dow Jones closed between its last all-time high of last January 4th, and its double-digit BEV lows of last month. In other words, nothing much has changed in the stock market since last week. But, as a zero-heart beat EKG in a hospital tells the...

Our ratio is on buy signal. Trend is up for the dollar. Trend is up for gold stocks. Trend for gold is up. The multi year “cup with handle” is in progress. A breakout this week.

Peter Boockvar joins us to discuss how Fed policy is going to eventually pivot back to easy money. This weakness in the economy will likely result in Gold & Silver reaching new highs this year.

This secular gold bull’s latest upleg is strengthening, as traders gradually diversify into the yellow metal. Major bullish drivers are contributing to gold’s renaissance, led by the Fed’s epic money printing and the raging inflation it has unleashed. Weakening...

While investors remain happy-go-lucky, fundamental data for gold and silver is now worse than in 2021. Is this the last chance to come back to earth?

One of the clear-cut winners of the 2022 commodity rally has to be palladium. The metal commonly used in catalytic converters recently saw its price catapult to record highs following Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, and is now trading 30% higher since the start of the...

As central bankers play checkers on a global debt chessboard, we see below how policy hypocrisy, worsening monetary options, failed diplomacy, tanking bonds, rising rates, debt addiction, mismanaged sanctions, de-dollarization and a shift toward a disorderly re-set...

Recent rallies in the major indexes have had a hard time hanging onto their gains lately. ETFs like XOP (S&P Oil & Gas Exploration & Production), XME (S&P Metals & Mining), and XLU (Utilities) have been experiencing capital inflows. At the same...

Gold has always been the prized metal of mankind for its artistic and cultural value, with a rich history dating back to Ancient Egypt. In many parts of the world, it serves as a symbol of wealth and the centerpiece in almost every special social gathering. Each...

In a development which the participants understood the importance of then, but which the wider financial markets may understand the importance of going forward, on 29 June 2021 the Shanghai Gold Exchange (SGE) hosted a China-Russia Precious Metals Webinar with...

It is undeniable that the ongoing crisis in Ukraine has polarized Western societies to an extent unseen in decades in any other foreign conflict. For over a month, we have been bombarded unceasingly by all mainstream media sources with reports and stories about...