Gold Editorials & Commentary

Except for the Almighty, all things have limits in this world.  Our knowledge of the vast universe is limited by the speed of light.  Our knowledge of the most minute particles is limited by the uncertainty principle. Of course the current global printing press will...

The chart above speaks for itself. You could not find a more bullish chart set-up in the stock market. Note that the HUI/Dow ration bottomed out in late 2019 at the same level where it bottomed in late 2000. Most investors in this sector were not around for the...

A signal has just appeared in the global financial markets which has only been witnessed one other time in recorded history – and it foretells of immense trouble for the world economy ahead.

To be bullish or not to be – that is the question. Or it might have been the question, if someone named Shakespeare wrote a piece titled Investhamlet. The choice whether to be bullish or bearish or neutral on a given asset should be made each day, each time based on...

Suppose you wanted to run an enterprise the right way (we know, we know, this is pretty far-out fiction, but bear with us). And, your enterprise has a $1 million dollar piece of equipment that wears out after 10 years. You must set aside $100,000 a year, so that you...

The 21st century was ushered in by fears about Y2k and how it might impact computer programming that was already in place. Part of the concern centered on the financial markets.

Gold and silver have both been surging recently perhaps for different reasons. Gold safe haven demand has been up since the COVID inspired lockdowns increased deflationary pressures on world economies.

This week has been a wild and emotional one and it's just started! With Monday’s big pop in the stock indexes, the big rally was based on vaccine news and bullish comments from the fed, convincing most traders and investors to be overly bullish this week.

Back in March and April, a chasm opened between the dollar price of spot gold (XAU) and the front month COMEX futures contract. So-called experts reassured us that this was simply due to "logistics" and "gold being in the wrong place". Was this true, or might it...

Important weekly gold chart.Gold is consolidating after reaching substantial resistance in the $1800 area. There was wild gyration in 2012 around that resistance zone and a breakdown that disappointed investors.

History tends to repeat itself. And if not repeat, then at least rhyme. But it can’t be argued that examining what has happened and how it’s relevant to today, is valuable. After all, that’s what technical analysis is about.

The ruling of the Federal Constitutional Court sets Germany against the EU. A planned crash? Southern Europe cannot exist without tourism. But the bang will probably come from the US, which despite huge QE programmes is plunging into a depression that will make the ...

The best performing precious metal was silver, up 7.30 percent. Gold had a strong week and held above $1,700 an ounce. Bullion rose the most in a week on Wednesday after Fed Chairman Jerome Powell said that the U.S. economy is facing unprecedented downside risks...

Whenever one hears the words precious metals, gold and silver spring to mind. But this world is much richer, and precious metals don’t end with the yellow or white metal. The less well known cousins, platinum and palladium, can and do send valuable signals too....

Bill Gates, a plague and central banks have converged like the perfect storm to propel the US toward becoming a cashless society and toward using digital ID’s for all personal financial transactions. The coronavirus bound these forces together, compounded them with...

During the Great Depression, stocks lost 90 percent of their value, people lost savings and jobs. Today there are a record 33 million jobless Americans, double the 15 million jobless in the Thirties or 25 percent of the population then. And today, there are long...

The 80-day cycle is likely to have double-topped at 2955-2945 and started its down-phase which should conclude in the first week of June.  Projection is likely to be a minimum of 2650.

Last week's trading saw gold forming it's low in Monday's session, here doing so with the tag of the 1692.10 figure (June, 2020 contract). From there, a sharp rally was seen into late-week, with the metal running all the way up to a Friday peak of 1761.20 - before...

So much for "Gold's Near-Term Trend Turns Negative", the title of last week's missive, proving once again that price moves ahead of that which technical analysis later behooves. Below in the left-hand panel across Gold's last 21 trading days we see the grey diagonal...

The Dow Jones is on the rebound from its March 23rd BEV -37.5% bottom; the bottom of one, if not the steepest percentage decline in Dow Jones history.  So far its BEV 17.5% line in the BEV chart below has been the first line of resistance that has held during this...

It is my privilege now to interview our good friend, Greg Weldon, CEO and President of Weldon Financial. Greg has decades of market research and trading experience specializing in the metals and commodity markets and he even authored a book back in 2006 titled Gold...

Gold sector remains on long-term buy at the end of April. GLD is on short-term buy signal. Breakout this past week.

I was pacing around the house this lovely but cold Friday afternoon (after finally having the water supply restored after our well filed for unemployment benefits), trying desperately to think of a topic to write about in this weekly missive, when it suddenly...

So here we are, with the sector leading the recovery out of the March crash during still-deflationary times. Inflation? It is not yet anywhere to be found, and that probably has a lot of inflation-centric would-be gold boosters on the sidelines. Someday, when these...

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

The gold futures contact gained 1.43% on Thursday as it broke above the recent consolidation. Gold price has retraced more of its month-long decline from April’s high. On April 14 it was the highest since November of 2012 and the high was at $1,788.80. Since then we...

The recession that started in 1929 is called the Great Depression. The global financial crisis that originated in 2007 bears the name the Great Recession. The current coronavirus crisis can be called the Great Lockdown. Let’s take a look at the Great Lockdown and...

The major gold miners’ stocks have rallied dramatically out of mid-March’s stock-panic lows, soaring to new bull-market highs. Their just-reported Q1’20 operational and financial results reveal whether today’s higher gold-stock prices are fundamentally justified....

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President Reagan memorably said that the nine words you don’t want to hear are “I’m from the government and I’m here to help.” Governments in all the major jurisdictions are now making good on that unwanted promise and are taking responsibility for everything from...