Commodities Analysis & Opinion

One thing you can’t accuse me of…I’m not a permabear or permabull. I’ve been oil bearish from $48 to $52 and back to $46-$45 area for the whole of October and now I see a...

Over the past few years there has been a lot of irrational fear-mongering within the gold commentariat regarding the potential for the Comex to default due to having insufficient physical gold in its...

Aluminum prices are on the rise in a major way with a stockpile in the Chinese market leading the charge, along with concern over an available supply shortage.According to a recent report from The...

This week the prices of the metals, as measured in terms of the much-abused and much-hated but much-preferred US dollar, went up. +$28 and +0.66 respectively.That’s a pretty big deal. So big, in...

We examine gold and the US dollar index from election into the December Fed rate hike in this video. If the December rate hike is a go, then gold is a sell into said event. Pay attention to the pulse...

CFTC Weekly Commitment of Traders Report WTI Crude Oil Non-Commercial Positions: Large speculators and traders sharply trimmed their net positions in the WTI crude oil futures markets to the lowest...

The drop in crude oil this week, definitely got everybody’s attention as the S&P 500 once again seems to be closely correlated with the trading of crude oil, causality or not.This blog has...

Gold and the dollar each have daily cycle trend lines that need to be broken over the next week or two. This video discusses the likely price action of both gold and the dollar during the month of...

We started the week off with stocks acting poorly and the poor action morphed into some solid weakness as the S&P 500 nears its major support level at the 200 day moving average.We are into very...

Pre report positioning ahead of the November 9th WASDE report was the theme in the grain complex this week. Investors also are keeping a close eye on the election results Tuesday, especially if Trump...

(NYSE:GLD) – on buy signal. (NYSE:SLV) – on buy signal. (NYSE:GDX) – on buy signal. (TO:XGD) – on buy signal. (NYSE:CEF) – on buy signal. Trend has turned up. Trend...

Technical analyst Jack Chan charts the latest movements in gold and silver, noting the markets will be volatile until the election is over. Our proprietary cycle indicator remains down. The gold...

The payrolls report came in pretty much as expected and thus seems to be a non-event for the most part. The dollar is slightly weaker, bonds are higher, oil is lower and gold is a tad higher. Mining...

The gold stocks continue to correct their epic +150% rebound that began in January and ran into the summer. Last week, it was the poor relative strength in the miners that hinted the correction had...