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November 23, 2013

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

Well, I am about to share with you my discovery of secular, long term, intermediate term and short term cycles in the investment markets. I am confident that when you have concluded your reading that you will understand that all financial markets are governed by...

November 22, 2013

Stockmarket up, precious metals down. Will the final 'bugs' now throw in the towel...? YET MORE money managers threw in the towel on gold this week, pulling the big gold trust-funds' holdings down to new four-year lows as the Dow closed at new record highs.

There is considerable disagreement about Chinese gold demand, with delivery figures on the Shanghai Gold Exchange and import/export figures for Hong Kong suggesting the real totals are far higher than those published by the World Gold Council and Thompson-Reuters...

China has a proclivity to plan and a propensity to execute. Of particular interest to us in this regard is their focus on gold. In particular, the government has exerted considerable effort to develop and open its gold market.

Already beleaguered, gold suffered another sharp drop this week. When the minutes from the Federal Reserve’s latest policy meeting implied it might slow its QE3 bond-buying campaign “in coming months”, futures speculators responded with heavy selling. But their...

Chart analysis On Gold, HUI, Silver And T-Bond Yields via Videos.

Still unnoticed by a large part of the population is that we have been living through a period of relative impoverishment. Money has been squandered in welfare spending, bailing out banks or even — as in Europe — of fellow governments. But many people still do not...

In our latest free essay, we focused on silver. We wrote: "the outlook for silver remains bearish and further declines should not surprise us." On the same day, after the essay was posted, silver declined sharply moving very close to the declining support line that...

Among the alternative financial press (the so-called bloggers of finance) there is a renewed buzz regarding a slowly unfolding crisis. Many believe we are near an inflection point.

FOUR-MONTH lows in gold continued vs. the Dollar and Euro in London on Friday, with the metal heading for its lowest weekly finish in British Pounds since early August 2010.

November 21, 2013

Two weeks ago we penned Gold Bear to end with a Bang, and noted the increasing probability that precious metals could be headed for a plunge to new lows ahead of a final major bottom. Two weeks later we continue to hold that view. The forthcoming charts present...

In case anyone is wondering, the long-term bull for gold remains intact. However, it sure doesn’t feel like it. The daily trend is down, the weekly trend is down and the monthly trend is down. So how can the long-term bull remain intact? It is based on the long-term...

When revolutions start, it's not uncommon for almost nobody to notice. It may take years or even decades before historians can look back, point a finger and say "that's where it really began."

London dealing in gold saw prices retreat towards last night's new 4-month lows Thursday morning, failing to rally above $1250 per ounce as world stocks markets held flat – and major government bonds continued to slip – following publication of minutes from the US...

In our essay on oil stocks from Nov. 14, we focused on the connection between the XOI and the general stock market to find out what impact the S&P500 index could have on the oil stock index’s future moves. Back then, we also wrote about the relationship between...

November 20, 2013

Private Chinese demand for gold has leapt ahead of economic growth... ONE MAN'S investor is, apparently, another's middle-aged housekeeping auntie in China.

Does the stock market’s relentless push higher seem unbelievable? Now might be the time to listen to your intuition… Like the nearly religious belief in the technology bubble, the dot-com boom, the housing bubble, and countless other bubbles across history, people...

WHOLESALE gold fell to new 5-week lows Wednesday lunchtime in London, dropping below $1257 for a 2.5% loss so far this week after new data showed US consumer prices falling last month from September.

November 19, 2013

While paper gold is getting the cold shoulder in the West, the Love Trade buyers in the East are wrapping their arms around all the physical gold they can get their hands on.

If you work around or trade the financial markets, it is impossible to insulate yourself from the never-ending use of the term bubble. Barron’s, a respected and widely read financial publication, has featured the word bubble on its cover twice in the past two years...

It’s almost never openly admitted in public, but the reality is that few if any investors actually beat the market in the long-term.

In our previous essay, we examined one of the most interesting relationships in the crude oil market – the one between oil stocks and other stocks, to find out if there's something else on the horizon that could drive oil stocks higher or lower in the near future....

I’m becoming increasingly concerned by emails that I’m receiving from amateur investors. These emails tout a fabulous future for the American stock market. Many stock buybacks have occurred, but actual earnings growth for American companies is highly questionable...

On Monday, former Fed official Andrew Huszar publicly apologized to the American public for his seminal role in executing the Quantitative Easing (QE) program, a program he characterizes as “the greatest backdoor Wall Street bailout of all time,” and “the largest...

According to the popular way of thinking, bubbles are an important cause of economic recessions. The main question posed by experts is how one knows when a bubble is forming. It is held that if the central bankers knew the answer to this question they might be able...

As Marc Faber put it: "Gold is bottoming out here. We have a lot of bearish sentiment and a lot of bearish commentaries about gold, but the fact is that...prices are probably in the process of bottoming out here".

WHOLESALE QUOTES for gold bounced from 1-week lows beneath $1270 per ounce Tuesday morning in London, turning higher as Asian and European stock markets failed to extend Monday's rise to new all-time highs in US equities.

I recognise that I’m sticking my neck out here, but this post will be short and to the point. It seems to me that, barring significant Fed intervention, the US equity market probably peaked today. Please take the time to read my “Author Comments” that follow the...

A couple weeks ago I posted these same charts talking about the pending breakout (in either direction) with silver, gold and mining stocks. Fast forwarding to this week its clear this sector continues its struggle to rally. Key support levels are now being tested...

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