Gold Editorials & Commentary

If you do not use stops in a market, do not complain about giving back profits or taking larger losses. That is the negative approach to handling one’s portfolio, and for some reason, more the norm for stock investors/traders.

HAS THE GOLD MARKET MADE ITS LOW? -- I have been burning the midnight oil since the beginning of July trying to figure out an intelligent and useful answer: I now finally feel confident enough to state that June 30th was most likely the low for GOLD, SILVER and the...

I spent the decade of the 1960s in and around Los Angeles (Ah! them were the days). There was a music radio station that focused on the “oldies” (yes, there were oldies, older than the 60’s). I still remember their slogan, which went something like this: “First...

The PRICE of gold bullion bars slipped Monday morning, recovering early $25 drop in quiet dealing as Asian and European stock markets rose following strong manufacturing data.

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In a week of no news relevant to gold and silver, gold slipped under the 1400 level, for some “unknown” reason, while silver just slipped a little. Friday marked the close of the week and month, for charting purposes. A look at the Quarterly, in progress, seemed...

Now that gold has broken its daily cycle trend line I think we can assume that the daily cycle decline has probably begun. My best guess is that we will see gold drop into next week's employment report and test the support zone and intermediate trend line around $...

A very quiet week all in all with many trader taking off mid-week for an extra long, long weekend. We will see many participants return to work next week and volume should once again begin to pick-up.

Gold finished Friday down $10.60 on average volume to 1396.20, with silver down $0.35 to 23.56 also on average volume. The gold/silver ratio rose to 59.26. It appears that the correction from seriously overbought silver is proceeding apace, although the lack of...

As if the federal government were not already doing enough to kill the U.S. airline industry with restrictive workplace rules, over-regulation, and a monetary policy that supports higher fuel prices, earlier this month anti-trust authorities at the Justice...

The good news is: There has been no significant increase in new lows on the NASDAQ. The negatives: New highs have disappeared.

The war drums are beating. This has driven gold higher and the June lows look like a classic bottom. Think about it. Gold had been dribbling down all year, but when the Fed began its tapering talk in mid-June, it pushed gold down to new lows.

In late June, only 8 weeks ago I alerted all of my readers to a major buy signal in precious metals and energy. I was absolutely amazed at the investor euphoria in equities at the time and the pessimism in precious metals and commodities and predicted correctly...

All precious metal equities are on a Buy Signal short-term – although they continue to remain on a Sell Signal long-term since March 2012.

According to Bloomberg, whose calculations were based on Hong Kong customs data, net gold imports into China more than doubled in the first half of 2013 to 493 metric tons, up from roughly 239 tons over the same period in 2012.

The last several weeks have seen a return of all the ingredients for a gold rally, from an “oversold” technical condition which sparked a short-covering rally to a spike in Treasury yields which caused investors to look for safe haven investments. Gold has...

Syria is about the last gasp for the Petro-Dollar, the emergence of energy pipeline geopolitics, the rise of the NatGas Coop, the new dominance of Russian Gazprom, the eclipse of OPEC, the fall of the house of Saud, and a grand adjustment process in global commerce...

Gold’s precipitous decline in the first half of 2013 sent shockwaves throughout the entire mining industry. Its scary panic-induced 28% plunge over just six months has forced the miners to revisit their development plans. And this will no doubt have an adverse...

Yesterday, gold stopped a five-day rally that had pushed it to its highest since mid-May, and lost some of its safe-haven appeal as the chance of imminent U.S. military strikes against Syria seemed to diminish, and investors booked profits. We let our subscribers...

Recently Contributing Editor Morris Hubbartt has been providing his gold and silver market analysis via videos. Here are his latest videos:

The PRICE of gold fell $15 in London trade Friday morning, reversing the last of the week's 2.5% gain to sit flat at $1395 per ounce.

Successful parasites do not kill their hosts, yet the currently parasitic banking system seems to be unsustainable for this very reason. Like an ineffective parasite, the huge international banks have sucked the juice from and distorted their hosts— the economy, the...

The Gold/Silver ratio is currently just under 58:1. Many have cited that the Gold/Silver ratio should be roughly 16:1. This was an historic level that existed largely prior to 1900 during periods when both gold and silver were routinely fixed prices. The ratio as a...

My guess is many on Wall Street thought “no way” when they first heard the name Larry Summers mentioned as the possible next Fed chairman. Back on August 19 we made the argument that President Obama’s “artificial bubble” comments seemed to point to Summers, rather...

Gold could see new mega-highs according to two prominent international super-bank economists -- While all eyes have been on Syria, what might turn to be a much more insidious problem for the world economy has been bubbling below the surface – and for

China continues to hoard gold en masse, which is starting to have a dramatic impact on the gold price. Chinese gold consumption is up 50% to 706 metric tons (hereafter tonnes) in the first six months of 2013 -- and is most likely to overtake India as the largest...

These last few years have been exceptionally challenging for those who share in the belief that the endless flood of worthless paper and debt can only end with investors, consumers and citizens being forced to pay a bill they cannot even begin to comprehend.

Last week we wrote: “Technically, the gold stocks continue to follow a typical post-bottom rebound path and look very strong. The daily RSI of GDX is at a 10-month high as GDX consolidates around $30. We’d love to see GDX consolidate for a few weeks but it may...

The Federal Reserve is in a very tough position. Despite unprecedented amounts of stimulus, GDP growth is anemic, unemployment remains historically high, durable goods orders have plunged and rising rates are harming the housing rebound. If this is all that can be...

It has been a bumpy ride for precious metal investors over the past couple of years and it unfortunately I do not think it’s over just yet. The good news is that the bottom has likely been put in for gold, silver and gold miners BUT the recent rally in these metals...