Gold Editorials & Commentary

There is a great story surrounding the late Joe Kennedy, father of former U.S. president John F. Kennedy, and a Wall Street robber baron of the highest order. A dedicated market player in the 1920s, as rumor (or myth) would have us believe, one fine morning in late...

On Thursday, the members of the Governing Council of the ECB met together to undertake monetary policy decisions. They decided to leave the interest rates and the conditions of the quantitative easing unchanged. This lack of action was widely expected, so attention...

Competition is supposed to be healthy, but when governments compete to see who can borrow the most money while paying their lenders little or nothing… that’s not healthy at all.

RESEARCH HIGHLIGHTS: Gold Pennant/Flag formation is now complete and setting up new momentum base near $1,925. Our Adaptive Fibonacci Models suggest support will prompt new Gold rally to $2,250. The rally in Gold will continue to extend higher over the next 4+ weeks...

As you know, I don’t make predictions based on charts, but clearly there is intense convergence of long-term support around the 2,000 level and strong indication of a subliminal desire in the market to keep plumbing the bottom to find that depth.

The best performing precious metal for the week was platinum, up 2.91 percent. The price of gold saw a small uptick on Thursday after the producer price index (PPI) increased 0.3 percent in August and the Labor Department said 884,000 Americans filed for first-time...

Some swear by price action, many others rely on indicators. There are actually many gold trading tips built around these techniques. Gold Miners Bullish Percent Index, is one of the rare ones that don't issue signals all that often. And it showed the highest...

RESEARCH HIGHLIGHTS: Although our modeling systems have recently switched into Bullish Trending mode, we are still very cautious of a Bull Trap pattern. Bearish technical divergences between price and RSI with an election 50+ days away indicates market weakness and...

Gold is inside a long-term Bull market. But recently, gold has formed a Parabolic rise. The problem for gold bugs is Parabolic rallies usually do not end well. The Parabolic rise has paused by forming a Triangle pattern. With gold down almost 10 percent, more could...

Daily coronavirus cases may be down in the United States, but that is no reason to be complacent, especially given that cold and flu season is only a few weeks away, says the nation’s top doctor. 

SPX is close to finding a low for this phase of the correction and this could happen next week.  It is not clear at this time if this will be a resumption of the uptrend, or if more short-term downtrend lies ahead.  The original thinking was that, due to seasonal...

Has the DJIA topped out? Is the attack on gold and silver over? Will it be a V or an L or . . .? What is driving the COVID weekly cycle? At the moment these and others are still open-ended questions, to be answered in the course of time. But for some of them there...

Last week's trading saw gold forming its low in Tuesday's session, here doing so with the tag of the 1911.70 figure. From there, decent rally was seen into late-week, with the metal pushing all the way up to a Thursday high of 1975.20 - before backing off the same...

At this time of the year when all hell supposedly breaks loose across the spectrum of the BEGOS Markets (Bond / Euro / Gold / Oil / S&P) -- and therein Oil has been contributing its part, -12.7% through just these first eight trading days of September -- the...

Our proprietary cycle indicator is down. Gold sector remains on long-term buy at the end of August. GLD is on short-term sell signal. Long-term – on major buy signal. Short-term – on sell signals.

Asset bubbles are a repeating theme. In 2017, bitcoin entered a bubble driving prices from $1000 to $19,000. The recent Bubble in Tesla marked a rally from $70 (post-split price) to over $500 in less than 6-months. Our work supports a bubble in gold and precious...

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

$2,000. Think about this number. Theoretically, it’s just a number, one of many. But… somehow we feel that jumping above this level was a big event in the gold market. After all, gold surpassed this psychologically important point for the first time in history,...

The big gold-ETF buying that catapulted gold higher into early August has gone missing in action.  That’s why gold stalled out since, drifting sideways flirting with a correction.  To continue powering higher, gold needs these major stock-market-capital inflows via...

Over the past month, gold has traded in a range with support around $1,900. Bulls have made a couple unsuccessful attempts to retake and hold above the $2,000 level following the sharp plunge below it on August 11th. 

Today, institutional participation – the enormous Wall St and global wealth management and investment firms and their clients from hedge funds to pension funds – in the gold market is minimal.

There can be little doubt that macroeconomic policies are failing around the world. The fallacies being exposed are so entrenched that there are bound to be twists and turns yet to come.

The U.S. stock market plunged last week. Will gold follow suit? Last week, the U.S. stock market has seen strong selling activity. The S&P 500 Index has declined about 7 percent from its peak, while the Nasdaq Composite Index plunged more than 10 percent (...

In mid-March, just as the coronavirus was gaining momentum, the price of gold began to rise.  After trading sideways from 2015 to 2019, gold rose from a low of $1,471 in mid-March to $2,069 on August 6th, a spectacular 40% rise in five months.

Institutional investors have maybe 0.5% of their assets invested in the precious metals sector. At the peak of the gold/silver in 1980 institutions had 5% invested in the precious metals sector. Since then that allocation has not been above 1%. Eventually a monster...

Gold doesn't exist in a vacuum, and within the love trade part there's to the king of metals, it competes with other risk-on assets such as the stock market. Let's dive into the most recent move in stocks.

Toined the macro, that is (in Moe’s Brooklyn accent). Step by step… A rising Gold/Silver ratio preceded the March disaster, made an ill-fated bounce pattern in May-June and then got hammered by the 24/7 liquidity spigots opened up by a desperate Federal Reserve and...

In this second MAM Chat, Egon von Greyerz and Matthew Piepenburg swap thoughts on the seductive yet dangerous 2020 market melt-up. Not surprisingly, all patterns point toward the case for precious metals.

I rarely mention anytime I’ve been interviewed. However, I was reviewing a casual conversation I just finished with one of my readers, Bob Unger, and I thought Bob’s questions led to a well-rounded expression of how, over the past two years, our economy got to the...

The government saved nothing to prepare for any type of crisis, and the result of that failure is obvious. As horrifying as the failure-to-save actions of the government are, I’ve argued that most of the Corona crisis debt is factored into the gold price.