Gold Editorials & Commentary

The bloodbath phase in the Euro, usually last 5-7 days, so a top in the US Dollar as early as by the end of this week. Implications for the metals and a lot sooner ending to the sell-off in gold/silver stocks.

Despite the reality check, investors keep up their buying spree. Meanwhile, problematic events are starting to gain on gold, silver, and mining stocks.

Given our view that Gold will perform when the Fed stops hiking, there are a few leading indicators that can signal the Fed stopping hikes.

Rebecca Kerswell Talks With Michael Oliver about Russia / Inflation / Commodity Supply Chain. Michael talks about the change in the momentum of Natural Gas and how this may play a big part in some serious problems for market soon.

Given that the US government has lost almost every war it has ever fought, should investors and regular citizens be concerned that the current de facto war against Russia will end at least as badly as all the others and… what does this mean for gold?

The best performing precious metal for the week was palladium, up 0.49% despite hedge funds raising their net short position to a 12-week high.

The technical correction in gold, silver, copper, and crude oil is over yesterday. The next big wave of sell-off will be there only if they fall below yesterday’s low. The message is simple: Only a slump in global stock markets will cause a sell-off in precious...

After gold ran out of steam, the market was flooded by a wave of invalidated breakouts. Can anything keep the precious metals from nosediving?

There are three basic questions that need to be asked, and subsequently answered, regarding gold price manipulation. Here are the three questions:

Last week we saw that gold and silver were both looking good for the near to medium term future. What happened last with the two metals, however, did not live up to the promise hinted at by the technical analysis, with the prices coming under renewed pressure as the...

Last week's trading saw Gold forming its high in Monday's session, here doing so with the spike up to the 2003.00 figure. From there, a sharp decline was seen into later in the week, with the metal dropping all the way down to a Friday low of 1928.00 - before...

First Gold: A mere seven days ago we were singing Gold's praises as its price for two consecutive weeks moved higher in bold defiance of the otherwise Short weekly parabolic trend. "Like salmon spawning upstream" we wrote; that was Gold's gleam.

This week the Dow Jones seems to have figured out what its path of least resistance was; Down, if only by about 2% from last week’s close.  I don’t know if the Dow Jones will see things the same again next week.  Maybe next week will be different.  But in the months...

Our proprietary cycle indicator is now DOWN. Long term – on BUY signal. Short term – on sell signals. Gold sector cycle is DOWN. A correction is in progress.

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

The gold miners’ stocks are still running higher in a mounting upleg.  These sector gains accelerated into mid-April, spawning fears of excessive overboughtness.  While somewhat stretched, gold stocks’ leading benchmark remained nowhere near potentially-terminal...

I wrote the article with the above title in February 2019. The projection that the Dow could lose 98% in real terms (GOLD) is today even more likely, creating the biggest wealth transfer in history.

Gold and the US Federal Reserve have a love-hate relationship. Hate because they both enjoy it when the other one performs badly, but love it because the Fed owns over 8,000 tonnes of gold and would rather no one else had any.

The attack on the metals looked very bearish on Tuesday, the Fed is very desperate to fight inflation, and there will be more attacks. Right when there is a breakout, when traders are pulled in…the attack.

The battle for $2000 gold continues and the horrific tension between the governments of the East and the West intensifies.

Despite increased war tensions, gold failed to break above $2,000. What’s worse, rising USDX and interest rates are already lurking on the horizon.

In the world of trends, history repeats more than it rhymes. Things which were considered “in” decades ago, reemerge as cool again decades later. From mom jeans to vinyl records and even Marxist ideology. The spotlight of today turns to things—both good and bad—once...

While gold prices remain elevated and investors continue to ignore the implications of the Fed’s rate hike cycle, a reality check should emerge sooner rather than later. For example, Bank of America’s latest Global Fund Manager Survey shows that institutional...

There are just a few times in ones investing career, depending how early you start and if you survive long enough, that you are witness to some extraordinary changes from the MACRO scale perspective.

Ed Steer joins us to discuss the recent Nickel Squeeze on the London Metals Exchange. The declining inventories of many key metals is reaching critical levels.

Few investors under the age of sixty have even heard the name “Jesse Livermore” and even fewer have read as much as one page ever written by the legendary author “Edwin Lefevre” who wrote what many consider their personal investment “bible of sorts” in the classic “...

The Russian central bank recently announced that it will stop buying gold at a fixed rate and will instead buy it at the negotiated rate from banks. Following the numerous sanctions imposed on Russia, the ruble had fallen tremendously against the US dollar, to get...

Because gold and crude oil are both denominated in US dollars, they are strongly linked. That is because as the US dollar rises, commodities priced in USD fall, and vice versa. As the dollar drops, commodities generally go up.

The best performing precious metal for the week was silver, up 3.90%, likely on the stronger inflation data reported this week, which of course silver loves. Technically, $26.00 continues to act as major resistance to a price breakout.

In this week’s Live from the Vault, the author of the Mining Stock Journal, Dave Kranzler, joins Andrew Maguire once again to contemplate the changing dynamic of how paper and physical markets interact.