Commodities Analysis & Opinion

The price of the cocoa future fell for the entire trading year of 2016. Now a floor may have formed in cocoa, at least in the medium term. Several factors suggest this: In the first image (weekly...

OPEC efforts to curb oil gluts has been fruitful as Iraq's oil minister Al-Luaibi assured on Monday that most oil majors working on its territory were participating in oil output reductions agreed as...

Gold has failed yet again at resistance in the $1220 region and has broken its up channel.Perhaps the key words here are “yet again” with regards to gold. As the chart below shows, gold...

Natural gas with lower lows and a lost support (3.36) Original post

Crude still above the pillars of safety Original post

Gold: The so-called corrective bounce starts to get challenged Original post

The US Constitution is often held up as an ideal to be aspired to, but it is actually far from ideal.One reason it is far from ideal is that the section setting out the powers of Congress (Article 1...

Key Points: Divergence evident on Stochastic Oscillator. Price action stalls at 100 Day MA. Watch for a breakdown in the coming days. Silver has had a relatively positive run over the past month, as...

The 2017 gold-market rally continues nicely, with a current pause at light overhead resistance in the $1215 - $1220 area. This is the daily bars gold chart. Note the flat lining action of the 14,7,7...

Good Morning!Today’s reports are Existing Home Sales at 9:00 A.M. Cold Storage and Milk Production at 2:00 P.M. and API Energy Stocks at 3:30 P.M. Yesterday’s Corn Exports week ending...

OPEC is talking about a further cut in oil production that could drain the swamp of oversupply. If OPEC is correct, they have already cut output by around 1.5 million barrels a day and will soon hit...

Some think it's important to watch copper's price action because it could send important macro messages about global growth or the lack thereof. Since 2011, Ole “Doc Copper” has been very...

The copper market has been sending mixed messages for the last year and the start of 2017 is no different. Consumers had gotten used to lower prices and the narrative of new mine investment swamping...

Gold and silver are off to a good start in 2017, advancing again last week into Donald Trump’s inauguration.If recent history is a guide, this year could bring some nice gains in precious...