Gold Editorials & Commentary

This is probably the most important article I have penned. It is about the destiny of three individuals who all followed different tides. We are today at the point when the consequences of taking the wrong tide will be ruinous whilst the right one will be extremely...

The precious metals market didn’t do much yesterday, but – what may seem surprising - that’s quite bullish. It’s bullish, because the USD Index rallied to new yearly highs and this “should have” caused the PMs and miners to decline. It didn’t, which suggests that...

Having opened with a sizable gap, stocks scored sizable gains recently. The reversal higher makes one think that we’ve seen a bullish turn. And the short-term outlook has certainly turned more to the bullish side of the spectrum. Let’s assess what the recent market...

The gold futures contract lost 1.70% on Tuesday, as it retraced most of the recent weeks’ advances in just one day of trading. The market has reached a local high of $1,598.50 on Monday and yesterday it fell to a daily low of $1,552.80. The sentiment towards risk-on...

Having predicted last year that a recession would begin in the summer of 2019 and that it would likely start with a major repo crisis, I am now proven wrong by 2019’s fourth-quarter GDP. If the repo crisis that started in the final week of summer had actually been...

Last week we noted that the risks in precious metals were primarily technical. Sentiment and technicals urge caution over the short-term.

Back in the 1980s, I had a boss that was right out of Monty Python. A Canadian by birth, he was the son of a very wealthy English nobleman who spent a number of years in Brazil as CEO of Brazilian Traction, where he was raised by servants and nannies and attended...

Are gold miners poised to begin a long period of outperformance against gold? I’ve argued that most gold stocks peaked against gold bullion in 2006.GDX $31 and GDXJ $46 are my “launchpad” numbers for a major new bull run, a run that could last for decades.

It’s hard not to mention gold and its paper nemesis in one breath. And understandably so, as the yellow metal moves have a certain relation to the way the greenback performs. Consequently, one of the critical parts of gold analysis is actually the analysis of one of...

The best performing metal this week was gold, up 1.12 percent. The majority of gold traders and analysts were bullish in the weekly Bloomberg survey as concerns mount regarding the coronavirus spreading out of China.

As the markets grapple with the coronavirus story, the stock market is no exception. Jittery and volatile trading is what we’ve seen on Friday, January 24 already. In the heat of the moment, it’s easy to sell first and ask questions later. But times like these call...

Let me turn to the January 31 historic passage of the new proposed position limit regime as voted on by the CFTC.  As I believe most regular readers are aware, the issue of position limits has been a singular concern of mine for decades, one to which I have devoted...

This is our annual analysis of the gold and silver markets. We look at the market players, dynamics, fallacies, drivers, and finally give our predictions for the prices of the metals over the coming year.

The World Health Organization has declared the coronavirus outbreak a global health emergency. What does it mean for the global economy and the gold market?

Last week’s economic data releases have been dimmed by China virus crisis intensity on Friday, but there was an increase in volatility following Wednesday’s FOMC and the important quarterly earnings releases on Tuesday and Thursday. This week we will have Friday’s...

It is my privilege now to welcome back the one and the only Gerald Celente, publisher of the renowned Trends Journal. Mr. Celente is a frequent guest here on the Money Metals podcast and perhaps is the most well-known trends forecaster in the world and it's always...

The “narrative” architects and fairytale spinners are desperately looking for evidence to fit their “consumer is still healthy / economy still fine” propaganda. The hype over strong holiday sales was premature if not fraudulent, as data-manipulators appear to have...

The 2019-nCoV coronavirus was declared a global emergency when the number infected surpassed that of the 2003 SARS outbreak. With the death toll doubling every 3-days, the outlook is grim.

Gold once again saw its low for the week made in early-week trading, here doing so with the tag of the 1567.60 figure (April, 2020 contract). From there, strength was seen into a Thursday high of 1595.50 - before backing slightly off the same to end the week, with a...

The majority of precious metals investors do not understand the important fundamental factor to acquire and hold gold and silver.  While most precious metals analysts promote investing in gold and silver due to the highly leveraged money supply, debt, and...

So how did January work out for ya? In a mere month the killer coronavirus has taken (at this writing) over 300 lives with sadly more in the offing given reports of some 14,000 folks being infected ... the global negative economic effect is of macro proportions,...

It’s been awhile, but this week we saw some excitement that took the Dow Jones down to its BEV -3.75% line at Friday’s close. And being today was also the first Dow Jones 2% day since last August, a -2.09% day, most of this week’s decline happened today.

The correction continues as anticipated and its end may come as early as this week if the two-year cycle makes its low in conjunction with the 80-day cycle. Potential price targets are given above.

Gold sector remains on long-term buy at month end. GLD is on short-term buy signal. GDX is on short-term sell signal. XGD.to is on short-term buy signal. GDXJ is on short-term sell signal.

Recession, recession - will we see one in 2020? And will it bring about a rally in gold then?. True or false? In today’s article, we’ll test the ‘recession in 2020’ narrative and we’ll then show you what it all means for the gold market.

The following is a TA post. It tries not to focus on fundamentals or the negative potential sentiment setup that could develop when Coronavirus relief finally spreads across the land. It’s the short and long-term TA of it, as it stands now.

The US stock markets dramatically surged mostly in a straight line since mid-October.  This extraordinary rally started when the Federal Reserve announced it would resume expanding its balance sheet for the first time in years.  The deluge of new liquidity from that...

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

Our research team has highlighted a number of technical and other factors that point to a very real potential of a major market top setting up across the global markets.  We’ve highlighted a number of research articles over the past 30 to 45 days that clearly...

With the newsworthy events of the last few weeks including the assassination of Iranian general Soleimani, retaliatory missile attacks against US forces in Iraq, and now the coronavirus, gold has just broken all-time records for volume on the world’s futures...