Gold Editorials & Commentary

With all the fear around the world, it is fascinating to watch the battle that is underway between risk-on and risk-off assets. Chris Vermeulen joins Cory Fleck to share the way he is trading these markets and what he thinks will cause a breakout in either risk-on...

Gold surged to a seven year high at $1,610.90 overnight prior to retreating as markets experience volatility due to the risks of a U.S. retaliation after Iran’s attacks on U.S. bases in Iraq.

The Canadian dollar has been going from strength to strength recently, but isn’t it time for the greenback to stage a comeback? Let’s examine the story the technicals tell...

As America loses a ridiculous trade war and manufacturing activity tumbles to 10year lows, the nation’s horrific GDP growth rate for 2019 was ranked an abysmal… number 107 in the world.

The geopolitical events have a way of driving the gold market – in the short-term, that is. And the news of rising U.S.-Iran hostilities is no exception, making it easy to get caught in the bullish sentiment of the day. As far as the short-term is concerned though,...

Normally, after tensions between Iran/Iraq and the US flare-up, Oil and Gold rally quite extensively but reversed sharply lower by the end of the session.

The top performing precious metal for 2019 was palladium, gaining 54.20 percent. In a weekly Bloomberg survey of analysts and traders, gold sentiment remained marginally bullish the first days of the New Year. The survey showed eight bullish, two bearish and seven...

Gold surged to fresh highs after confirming its recent 6-month low. Prices have rallied over $100 since Christmas. The short-term trend is overbought, and we could get a brief a pullback. 

Gold and silver investors buy metals because they are scarce. Precious metals are by nature difficult to find, and hard to produce. Consequently, above ground stocks are limited and valuable, particularly when priced in unlimited fiat currencies.

It was a very good year for precious metals.  Gold posted a nearly 19% gain and silver rose over 17%.  As you can see in the chart below, the move higher began in early summer defying the annual summer doldrums, hit an impasse during autumn, then ended the year with...

Analysis of the short-term trend is done on a daily basis with the help of hourly charts.  It is an important adjunct to the analysis of daily and weekly charts which discusses the course of longer market trends. 

In this update I am not going to repeat the points made in the last fairly comprehensive update, instead we are going to focus on the importance of the resistance level just above where the price is now, and impact of the killing of the Iranian General and its...

Gold started off the new year with a resounding bang - with the metal forming its low for the week in Monday's session, doing so with the tag of the 1513.50 figure. From there, a slingshot to the upside was seen into late-week, here running all the way up to a...

With two 2020 trading days under our belt (and hopefully you can buckle yours post-holiday), we find Gold at 1555, up a swift 2.3%. To achieve the above Scoreboard's forecast high for this year of 1675, price en route shall have to find itself up 10.2%, a gain...

Our proprietary cycle indicator is up. Gold sector is on major buy signal. GLD is on short-term buy signal. GDX is on short-term buy signal. XGD.to is on short-term buy signal. GDXJ is on short-term buy signal.

This article is an overview of the economic conditions that will drive the gold price in 2020 and beyond. The turn of the credit cycle, the effect on government deficits and how they are to be financed are addressed.

Originally published on Sat Dec 28 for members of ElliottWaveTrader.net:   When I peruse the comments on our Elliottwavetrader site alone, I am seeing a myriad of “beliefs” as to what the metals are doing and will be doing.  Most of such beliefs seem to be driven by...

Gold miners’ stocks blasted higher this past week, breaking out of their correction downtrend.  Rapidly-improving psychology fueled such strong upside momentum that sector benchmarks are challenging months-old upleg highs.  Most traders assume this is righteous,...

Gold continues to move higher due to trouble in the Fed Repo and U.S. Treasury Market.  In the first hour of business today, the Fed has already injected $57 billion in the Repo Market.  While the Fed’s Repo Market injections did not spike at during the last few...

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

Hooray, the twenties are here! But what will the 2020 bring for the gold market? Shall we see the beginning of the Belle Époque for the yellow metal?

The focus of today’s article is naturally on gold and its price path ahead. But before looking at the lessons from topping action in gold, we’ll dive into a key market of interest for gold. No market exists in a vacuum, and neither does the yellow metal.

Precious metals markets enter the New Year with some impressive upside momentum. Are gold and silver poised to deliver big gains in 2020?

The Gold rally we predicted to happen in late 2018 took place, almost perfectly, based on our ADL predictive modeling systems results.  This rally took place in May through September 2019 and pushed  Gold up to levels near $1600.

I’m growing more confident that we’re on the cusp of a big move higher in the precious metals sector because of the Fed’s massive money printing. Also, because the money printing and near zero interest rates are visibly not stimulating economic growth, we’re at the...

The King is dead, long live the King - 2019 is over, long live the 2020! As tumultuous as they have been, what have we learned about the gold market in the past twelve months? And what can we glean from this knowledge for the times ahead?

As a student of market history, I always find it interesting, and even sometimes quite comical, how certain fallacies about markets are continually propagated by investors and analysts alike. Throughout my career in writing about metals, I have tried to bring many...

The US stock market has recently rallied throughout most of the last year after the very deep downside price rotation in late 2018.  Our researchers believe there is a very high likelihood of this trend continuing in early 2020, yet we would need to see confirmation...

I predicted gold would bottom in mid-November and it did.The fabulous daily gold chart. A lot of amateur gold investors have missed this rally.That’s partly because they thought the “smart money” was shorting a lot of gold on the COMEX.

In this important discussion between Egon von Greyerz of Matterhorn Asset Management and Grant Williams of Real Vision TV, they talk about the fake prosperity we live in, facilitated by negative interest rates as well as endless money printing and the dire...