While investors in the precious metals sector had to endure a tough bear market in the past couple of years, there is a glimmer of golden light at the end of this dark tunnel. The fundamentals for gold ownership have not changed and remain as strong as ever, and...
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May 22, 2014
First I want to acknowledge how frustrating the markets have been over the last several months for most of you. There has been no clear cut trend in which one can just take a position and not get caught up in the chopping action the markets have been giving us.
May 21, 2014
We are very rapidly approaching a point in time where the citizens of the US and the inhabitants of the free world will be faced with the true realit
There is a belief that central bank gold in the custody of the world’s leading central banks such as the Fed, the Bank of England and the Banque de France has been leased out to the market. Central Banks have confirmed this, but it remains a source of contention....
May 20, 2014
Gold continues to trade sideways. The next trending move may be decided by an important economic report. Janet Yellen is scheduled to speak at Yankee Stadium tomorrow morning, and the FOMC minutes will be released a few hours later.
Europe is abuzz with Capital in the Twenty-First Century by French economist Thomas Piketty, released in Europe in March of this year and now a best-seller. It has since crossed the Atlantic and is already the number-one best-seller for booksmith Amazon. It has been...
Gold did NOT blow-off into a bubble high in 2011, all the drivers for continued higher gold prices are still valid, demand is huge, supply will be restricted when the western central banks run out of gold or choose to terminate “leasing” into the market, and...
Until early in the 20th century, gold played a central role in the world of money. Gold had an incredible run — almost three thousand years. And why not? After all, Professor Roy Jastram convincingly documents in The Golden Constant just how gold maintains its...
May 19, 2014
One of the biggest questions at the end of 2013 was how the Treasury market would react to the reduction of bond buying that would result from the Federal Reserve's tapering campaign. If the Fed were to hold course to its stated intentions, its $45 billion monthly...
Each year since the recession officially ended in the summer of 2009, Wall Street and Washington have tried to dupe investors into believing a second half recovery was in store for the stock market and economy. However, this promise has failed to come into fruition...
An important question all investors must ask: Which asset class has performed the best during the past 42 years? Answer: Gold Price Performance Leaves Other Assets Dead In The Water Since 1972
May 18, 2014
With the fall of the Iron Curtain in 1989 came a surge of expert opinion explaining why the Soviet Union was destined to fail; apparently, communism had made it impossible for the Soviet economy to find the correct prices for goods and services. For example; Soviet...
May 17, 2014
Another choppy week for markets and stocks with no real direction. It’s still very hard to catch a winner. We saw one stocks we’ve been eyeing for a while as it built its super base, and it broke-out Thursday on heavy volume which is usually the blueprint to...
Based on several thousand years of history, and based on the last 100 years of fiats, gold will continue to rise as a store of value, and almost all fiats will fail, massively. Which fiats will continue? The Yuan and the Ruble, for two. The Panama Balboa is...
Long term – on major sell signal since Mar 2012. Short term – on mixed signals. Gold sector cycle – down as of 3/21, ending the up cycle since 12/27. COT data is not supportive for higher prices overall.
May 16, 2014
Every major corner of the world’s economies is sitting on a knife’s edge of one type or another; the question becomes who falls first triggering the next leg down in the Global Economies and ongoing depression. All are in debt spirals as deficits and debt compound...
Chart Analysis Gold Upward Chop, Silver Trend, Gold Stock Trend & Coppock Metals Buy Analysis via videos.
Briefly: In our opinion speculative short positions (half) are justified from the risk/reward perspective in gold, silver, and mining stocks. The situation in the currency and precious metals markets developed to a large extent as we had outlined it yesterday. The...
Precious Metals continue to be in a long bottoming process that began last summer. Though many quality juniors have already bottomed and while GDX, GDXJ and SIL probably won’t see new lows, the broad sector as a whole is struggling to push out of this long bottoming...
At the outset I should declare an interest. In the 1980s I was a member of the UK's Society of Technical Analysis and for a while I was the society's examiner and lecturer on Elliott Wave Theory. My proudest moment as a technician was calling the 1987 crash the...
Jim Rogers co-founded the Quantum Group of Funds in 1973. He has warned investors that governments could loot savings and pension plans soon. With gold coming down again over the last month, I asked him about his gold holdings now.
May 15, 2014
A report from the demand front… “I can’t remember the exact quote but when I used to trade and Mr. Volcker was Fed chairman, he said something like ‘gold is my enemy, I’m always watching what gold is doing’, we need to think why he made a statement like that. If you...
Gold investors are wondering how much longer the metal will remain stuck in the mud as they await the next major “fear catalyst” that will launch a sustainable rally. Gold futures have gone nowhere recently as traders assess the safe haven demand for the metal in...
Countries all over the world are meeting for a purpose that concerns you greatly, whether or not you're American: disuse of the US dollar. Since the outbreak of the Ukraine crisis the end of the US dollar seems closer than ever. In move-after-move, Russia and China...
May 14, 2014
Since the top in gold in 2011 gold has been in a bear market. Depending on your outlook, this 3 year down trend could also be seen as consolidation within a major cyclical bull market. Either way, the outlook is bullish, that is if gold can bottom this year.
In our opinion speculative short positions (half) are justified from the risk/reward perspective in gold, silver, and mining stocks. Yesterday was another day during which the precious metals sector didn’t really decline (just a little) despite a move higher in the...
The more it gets talked about, the less likely it will happen. Here's what I'm talking about:
May 13, 2014
Many bank economists believe second quarter GDP growth in the United States will be about four percent. This daily Dow chart shows that a modest upside breakout to new highs occurred on Monday.
The Dollar is following an accurate 15-Year Cycle which is made of five 3-Year Cycles. On the following chart you can see that we are currently in the 15-Year Cycle that began in 2008. The current 3-Year Cycle that began in 2011 did not make new highs above the...
We’ve been focusing in on the shorter term charts for the precious metal complex for some time now which is important but we also need to keep a very close eye on the bigger picture as that over rides the shorter term charts. You really have to know the big picture...