Commodities Analysis & Opinion

Increased Ivory Coast cocoa deliveries bearish for cocoa pricesCocoa deliveries to Cote d'Ivoire ports have increased compared with the previous season. Will cocoa continue falling?Cocoa deliveries at...

Investors Shaking Off Trump Concerns and Focused On Jackson Hole | Oil and Euro LowerEuropean markets have shaken off the anxieties of the US dysfunction and the focus has turned towards the Jackson...

{{8830|Gold Futures}}The longer the market stays close to downtrend line resistance the higher, I think, are the chances for a clean breakout. Original post

Gold: The longer the market stays close to 1.300 resistance the higher, I think, are the chances for a clean breakout. Original post

According to the AISI report based on preliminary U.S. Census Bureau data, through the first seven months of 2017 total and finished steel imports are 23,168,000 and 17,938,000 net tons, up 22.1% and...

“Dr Copper” as an economic measure is becoming popular again, but where has it been the past 8yrs when the US economy has been in an uptrend since 2009 as shown by IndProd. Commodity...

Oil and Gold had relatively calm sessions overnight with both crude and gold quietly consolidating their recent gains ahead of Jackson Hole.OIL Oil prices rose by just over one percent overnight as...

This only applies to coffee traders but here is a pattern I want to point out for those in this space. Notice the 7’s (small) posting on the latest bars. This is a pattern and it could signal...

Live CattleThe October Live Cattle contract reversed course on Wednesday, August 23, 2017, as the declining 13 DMA (107.625) provided resistance for the second day in a row. The session high (107.90)...

According to the most recent report on the U.S. Financial Institutions Derivatives trading activity, the U.S. banks held a record amount of precious metals contracts in the first quarter of 2017. Not...

We discuss the concepts of "Market Sucker" "Market Schmuck" and the important role that selectivity and trading patience plays in financial markets these days. Trading algos are built to exploit...

Money Metals readers may remember my November 2014 report in which I discussed how gold flowed into China in "tributary fashion" like small streams flowing into a giant one. In this case, the gold has...

Silver is cheap and will outperform all other metals, says Lior Gantz, founder of Wealth Research Group, and highlights one company he expects to do well.I've been looking at this chart for...

The 2017 Economic Symposium in Jackson Hole, Wyoming, is set to start on Friday. How can it affect the gold market?This week is rather light in terms of incoming economic data. Instead, investors...