In Part I ( http://www.gold-eagle.com/article/theory-interest-and-prices-paper-curre... ) , I made several points. First, that in the last gold bear market, miners capitulated after prices were low and falling for a long time. Then they sold massive amounts of...
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August 19, 2013
August 18, 2013
Last Weekend report , Rambus Showed a Provocative Scenario For the Precious Metals Markets dubbed “What If 1 : Circa 2013″ I would like to show you two stocks we bought recently that have nice inverse H&S bases. Inverted H&S patterns are generally reversal...
According to Austrian Business Cycle Theory, when a central bank slows its money printing that has fueled a manipulated stock market boom, the stock market is very vulnerable to a crash.Murray Rothbard in his book
August 17, 2013
Gold finished Friday up $14.10 on average volume to 1375, with silver up $0.25 to 23.18 on heavy volume. The gold/silver ratio dropped to 59.31. Silver's 50 day MA has flattened and is beginning to turn up. The last time silver's 50 MA was moving up was mid-...
The good news is: The market averages are likely to be at or near their low point for this month. The Negatives: New highs have disappeared. There were 406 new lows on the NYSE last Thursday, that is huge.
Finally, a classic example on the importance of reading developing market information, as shown in a chart! For the past several months, everyone interested in Precious Metals, PMs, has been deluged with never-ending fundamental information about the unprecedented...
All precious metal equities are on a Buy Signal short-term – although they continue to remain on a Sell Signal long-term.
August 16, 2013
We use the 20+ Year T-Bonds ETF (TLT) as the surrogate for long bond timing. As of 5/20/2013 TLT is on a Trend Model NEUTRAL signal, which means that the model has been out of bonds but not short. The LT Trend Model, which informs ou
Recently Contributing Editor Morris Hubbart has been providing his gold and silver market analysis via videos. Here are his latest videos:
Over the years that I’ve published my research letters, I have routinely observed selective thinking. In reality, what I have found is that rather than seeking the truth, people actually seek out opinion that supports their own. Now, this may or may not always...
Gold has been in a significant bear market since reaching a record high at $1,910 an ounce in 2011. In its collapse gold bullion lost $705 an ounce or 37% of its value to the recent low at $1,195.
Last week we focused on the idea that gold is not an inflation hedge (https://www.gold-eagle.com/article/gold-anti-inflation-hedge ). Today, we will develop this notion even further.
The flagship GLD gold ETF has suffered a radically unprecedented mass exodus this year. The capital fleeing this single vehicle was the primary reason gold plunged so dramatically in 2013’s first half. But just this week, money started flowing back into GLD for...
Stock market bears have accumulated four feathers in their caps, which tells us to remain flexible and open to additional weakness in stocks:
The destruction culminating in late June in the gold price brought out the usual suspects to school us ever since about why gold is all done as a worthy investment in an era of economic revival, compliments of heroic policy making by Ben Bernanke and Associates. ...
August 15, 2013
COMMENTARY: A number of factors have impacted gold in a positive way over the past 30-days. Egypt has entered a climatic period whereby the Egyptian Government has declared a month-long state of “emergency” The Egyptian Army today was given authorization today to...
Gold in relation to the Dow Jones Industrials (DJI) has taken a bit of a beating over the past few months. The DJI/Gold ratio rose from 7.82 as at December 31, 2012 to a close of 12.18 as at June 30, 2013 an increase of almost 56%.
What actually happened in the gold market during the second quarter of 2013? The One Bank launched one of its most savage assaults on bullion markets throughout the entire course of this 13-year bull market, causing all-time record demand for gold – while the market...
In our previous essay ( http://www.gold-eagle.com/article/recent-price-action-silver-breakout-or... ) we focused on silver’s relationship with the general stock market. Today, we think it would be interesting to revisit the silver-to-gold ratio. However, before...
August 14, 2013
At one point we thought we were alone in believing that eventually we would see a confiscation of citizen’s gold in one or more countries. Then we saw the confiscation of deposits in Cyprus in line with a “bail-in” policy.
In the 1990s, tech stocks were the place to be. After the dot-com bust, those who placed their money in bonds or shorted stocks did very well until October 2002. The winning asset class between late 2002 and October 2007 was stocks.
August 13, 2013
All aboard and back up the truck. The recovery train is soon to leave the station for higher prices! Obviously, the ideal time for that would have been at the exact bottom.
During this banker raid on paper gold and paper silver, while banking shill Nouriel Roubini was spouting more propaganda in the distribution channels of the mass media of a gold collapse to sub-par $1000 an ounce prices, we were busy informing our readers about the...
The spot gold price surged to a near three-week high yesterday as strong demand to buy gold hit the market. Analysts are now looking for December gold futures to push through $1,350, the next level of resistance.
First off let's go over the key cyclical points from today's action. Yesterday gold broke above the cycle downtrend line, thus confirming August 7 as a daily cycle low.
The Fed has taken extreme measures to kick start the economy. With fears of inflating another round of asset bubbles increasing, public statements from Fed governors in recent weeks have revolved around tapering their stimulative policies in the months ahead.
According to Reuters, Fed stimulus has helped fuel the S&P's gain of nearly 19 percent in 2013. The Fed is seen as moving toward reducing its $85 billion in monthly bond purchases, causing some investors to take a step back from stocks.
August 12, 2013
All the pieces are in place for a major uptrend in gold to begin right away, and it appears to be starting as this is being prepared. The Commercials have cleared out virtually all of their short positions, for a massive profit of course, meaning that the slate is...
I generally shy away from making time-specific economic and stock market predictions simply because they are extremely difficult to accurately pinpoint. During 2006 I warned about a coming real estate collapse that would cause a severe recession in 2007.
In April 2013, Japan announced a QE program of $1.4 trillion, an amount equal to roughly 25% of the Japanese GDP. To put this into perspective, the US’s QE1, QE 2, QE 3, and QE 4 programs which were spaced out over four years are an amount equal to roughly 16% of US...