Gold Editorials & Commentary

Ever since the year 1961 there has been only one (1) secret that will tell us when the gold complex will top and bottom. The secret first appears in the year 1961. Starting in the year 1961 you add 6 to 6 ½ years. You keep adding 6 to 6 ½ years to the total. You now...

In the jigsaw that is the Great Game of Asia pieces which heretofore made little sense on their own are beginning to slot in to give us an idea of the final picture. These disparate pieces are as varied as China’s claim of territorial rights over Japan’s Senkaku...

The market you trade is not random… The use of cycles is perhaps the most misunderstood areas of technical analysis. And is widely miss used within automated trading systems. This is because there are a wide variety of approaches ranging from magnetic, to astrology...

Atlanta Federal Reserve President Dennis Lockhart delivered the news, responding to all speculation about the coming back issue of possible “tapering”. Despite the chairman change for Ms. Yellen, the tapering issue did not taper out yet. Lockhart has told us that...

For the near-term action in the gold market, there are several key cycles that are coming due right now with the gold market, with both the daily weekly cycles due for a bottom of some degree. Whether that low will end up as anything meaningful remains to be seen,...

The PRICE of wholesale gold held steady around $1230 per ounce in London trade Monday morning, ticking upwards as European shares slipped but Asian stock markets closed higher after strong data from China.

Not only Chinese Banks but also the general population of the Sino nation are snapping up all the gold they can lay their hands on at these bargain basement prices. The recent gold price consolidation is a godsend for the Chinese. This begs the question: Why are...

In this business there is no greater buying opportunity than at a bear market bottom. For those few investors able to control emotions, delay gratification, and go against the crowd, a bear market bottom is where millionaires and billionaires are made.

Tis the Season for the most powerful seasonality trade of the year! With the stock market up big in 2013 and most participants are speculating on a pullback in the next week or two, I have to say I am on the other side of that bet. Being a technical trader I focus...

The current correction in gold is not unusual! It also happened in the 1970s. We could go to $1,000 or even $700. Though the bull market is not over…if anything it is only beginning!

A bit of a choppy week for markets which corrected a bit before looking to have put in a bottom, then flipping back to looking like more downside was needed before a large gap opening Friday on good job numbers.

Long term – on major sell signal since March 2012. Short term – on sell signals. Gold sector cycle – down as of 11/08.

With the Holiday shopping season off to a slow start according to preliminary retail sales numbers and with the stock market sitting near all-time highs, one can’t help but wonder what will happen when investors realize the economy isn’t really doing as well as we’...

We had planned on writing about China’s emergence as the world’s new superpower, while the United States keeps sliding into Third World status, but we cannot escape the more cogent political implications/ramifications of the diverging paths between the two...

After making a bear market low in June, gold rallied about 20%. Then from the August top, price headed back down for a possible retest of the June low. There is a good chance that the retest will fail, sending bear market prices to lower levels, but there is also a...

Why do you think central banks may turn their deposit rates negative? Why, because the QEs of the central banks to stimulate economic growth is not working and will not work. The QEs are fuelling bond, stock and real estate prices in the US in the hope of...

Chart analysis On Gold, Silver, T-Bonds And HUI Index via videos.

It appears that the enlightened investor is now more likely to use Bitcoin to diversify their portfolio rather than physical precious metals held in their possession. Recent price performance and sentiment have all but wiped precious metals off the map - even for...

Meet Sun Zhaoxue: Sun Zhaoxue is president of China National Gold Corporation, China’s largest gold mining company. He is on record indicating that in order to have a strong currency, it must be backed by significant gold reserves.

Gold’s worst year in memory was largely the result of extreme gold-ETF selling. A flood of gold supply hammered gold prices as stock investors around the world aggressively dumped gold ETFs. They were rotating out of gold to chase the Fed-driven stock-market...

Long-Term nothing has changed. Precious Metals bull market continues and is moving step by step closer to the final parabolic phase (could start in summer 2014 & last for 2-3 years or maybe later).

WHOLESALE gold in London reversed a sharp drop Friday lunchtime, recovering a $20 plunge on the release of US jobs data to trade back above $1230 per ounce, heading for a 1.7% drop on the week.

The US Federal Reserve bond monetization support for government finance support, financial markets, banker welfare, economic props, redemption coverage, and liquidity fire hose functions will continue to expand and definitely not diminish. Only the brain-dead, the...

In 2013 the Indian Government raised import duties to 15% on gold. It then prevented the import of gold unless 20% of that gold was exported. Now this is blocked too. What impact has this had on the gold price? Here we look at the relevance of these moves to both...

In our previous essay we focused on the oil-stocks-to-oil ratio and its implications for oil stocks. However, at the end of November we checked this ratio to find out what impact it could have on future crude oil’s moves

There is no doubt that the S&P 500 has made new all-time highs. So has the Dow Jones Industrials (DJI) and the Dow Jones Transportations (DJT). The NASDAQ has not. Gold made new all-time highs back in September 2011. Despite the elation over the new all-time...

The PRICE of gold fell hard Thursday lunchtime in London, giving back all of yesterday's sudden 3.1% jump to trade back at $1223 per ounce after stronger-than-expected US economic and jobs data.

Throughout most of 2013, gold futures have been under major selling pressure. Gold opened the year trading around $1,675 per ounce. As of the 12/02/13 close, gold futures were trading around $1,220 per ounce which would mean that thus far in 2013, gold futures have...

In our last essay we examined the situation in the US Dollar Index (from many perspectives) and the Euro Index, as many times in the past it gave us important clues about future precious metals’ moves. Back then we wrote that the implications for the precious metal...

Having replaced savings with debt on both the national and individual levels, I think it's well past time for Westerners to take a few lessons from our creditors in the East. Many Americans consider gold a "barbarous relic," but in Asia, the yellow metal remains the...