Gold Editorials & Commentary

The following is an article that covers an Interview with Andy Schectman, Miles Franklin's President and Co-Founder. ANDY HOFFMAN: Precious Metals, in our 26th year in business. It’s Thursday night, August 27th; and given the extreme volatility of global markets –...

Dow & Trans Indices, Gold, Silver & US$ Volume, GDX & GDXJ Bottoms, Key PM Stock Volume, Swing Trading analysis via videos.

The US stock markets just suffered an extraordinary plunge, shocking traders out of their complacency psychosis. This cast the foundational premise behind recent years’ incredible stock-market levitation into serious doubt.

Over the years we have frequently stated that every that every major bull market will experience at least one back breaking correction. Usually the correction culminates with a 50% pullback from the highs. In the case of Gold, this would equate to a pullback to $960...

For the past 20 years, and much longer in most cases, debt and prices have moved upward in exponential trends. Markets go up and down. Debt however, based on over 100 years of central bank and politician foolishness, only goes up – until a great deflationary crash...

Two weeks back I asked the question whether or not the "Final War" had started, between the EAST AND WEST. I was called a number of politically incorrect names for suggesting the Tianjin explosion might have been an "attack" and took even more heat,... because I...

We continue to have a wonderful dialogue with and frequent editorial submissions from readers and clients. Today, we have a thought provoking and important article that should greatly contribute to the debate on the merits of continuing to use artificial money.

Last week when we covered rebound targets in the precious metals sector, we also discussed the importance of Gold’s performance in real terms. It can be a leading indicator for the sector at key turning points. Since then precious metals sold off in aggressive...

Is China’s surprise move to weaken its currency a step towards market reform or does it presage a widespread series of “race to the bottom” devaluations reminiscent of the Great Depression? China joins the Swiss National Bank (SNB) who earlier this year let the...

Don’t let the bull-tards tell you the stock market over here is falling because of China’s problems, or Grexit, or fear of the nebulous Fed rate hike. We’ll just see about that last one now anyway

“In recent years, China has come to shape the very way in which commodities are bought and sold, traditionally the preserve of financial centers such as London and New York. Late last month, the price of gold fell sharply, to a five-year low, within minutes of Asian...

In our opinion, short (full) speculative positions in gold, silver and mining stocks are justified from the risk/reward point of view. Yesterday we saw another big daily decline and it served as an additional confirmation that taking profits on long positions and...

One of the most brilliant investors in the world just made a stunning call… Ray Dalio is the founder of Bridgewater Associates, the world’s largest hedge fund. Dalio manages nearly $170 billion in assets. He has one of the best investing track records in the...

We’re going to look at the precious metals complex and get focused again as this is the area we need to concentrate our efforts right now…IMHO. All the volatility in the stock markets has many taking their eyes off the ball of what may turn out to be the trade of a...

What was the best asset class to buy for the recovery that followed the 2008-9 crash in global financial markets? Step forward gold whose rise was only exceeded by silver.

Another day and yet another episode in the great gold/markets/dollar/renminbi saga. While the Shanghai Composite Index fell another 1.3%, and Hong Kong's Hang Seng Index was also down around 1%, Japan's Nikkei and European and American markets were all picking up...

The Chinese stock market is of interest to us not because we necessarily want to trade it, but because of its effect on other world markets. Its heavy drop on Monday morning contributed to the rout on Wall St later in the day. The Chinese economy is a massive Ponzi...

Are you ready to make a leap of faith? A buying opportunity is fast approaching in MINERS, whether it looks like they are crashing down or not. Let me show you what I am seeing. In July I expected a drop in the USD to the lower support line. This would cause a...

For years now, each time the metals rallied, most in the market believed that the bottom was in. However, the lower we get, it seems that the crowd of those believing the bottom has been struck continues to shrink. Many more are still calling for lower lows even...

When planning to write this piece, the Dow was up 250 points or so with 45 minutes of trading left. The anticipated bounce (if China cut rates) arrived this morning with a 442 point upward thrust. This on a report card could be categorized as a “C-” or even a “D+”,...

For someone carrying a dogmatic bent of the bearish persuasion, there's always conditions somewhere that can fill the narrative. Liquidity provisions, leverage, breadth, global macro developments - the list can go on and on and there's plenty of sites that cater to...

Most people did not expect what happened on Monday morning. The futures traders took the ES down to 1830 with the cash market stabilizing at SPX 1867 in just a few minutes time. Clive Maund gets some kudos here calling for the Dow Industrials to be down a...

I want to take a special look at gold and the dollar this morning to see if we can’t alleviate some of the fears created yesterday by the big move down in mining stocks. As I’ve noted before, it’s not uncommon for big money to try to run stops to enter at the...

As you can see on the attached Daily Gold Chart, it appears that wave *iii* could be complete at the 1167.90. We had a *iii*=2.618*i* projection of 1164.50. We cannot rule the possibility that with all of the market turmoil that wave *iii* will extend and head...

What is currently happening in markets should be no surprise to investors who understand sound money and have been following our risk warnings in the last few years.

Have US stocks entered a bear market? In most assets, MSM (mainstream media) uses a 20% decline as a rule of thumb to define a bear market. While an asset that’s declined 20% might be in a bear market, that rule of thumb is at best a very crude attempt to define...

Gold & Silver Volume, GDX & GDXJ Flags, Key Swing Trades And Key Bull Flags analysis via videos.

With stocks plummeting around the world, it’s clear that gold flunked the safe-haven test. Virtually no one would have predicted that bullion prices would barely budge if the Dow Industrials were to fall more than 2100 points in just three days.

Gold was valuable 3,000 years ago and will be valuable 3,000 years from now. But can you say the same for dollars, euros, yen, or pounds? Gold maintains its value (on average) over centuries. Can you expect similar longevity for debt based fiat currencies that are...

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