Commodities Analysis & Opinion

Doc and Eric Dubin invited me back on their SD Weekly Metals & Markets show this past week. We discussed the upcoming “most important ever” FOMC meeting this Tues/Wed (note the sarcasm...

We opened last week's missive by highlighting gold having risen for, what was then, the ninth week of the prior 13. Now given this week's 19-point slide, 'tis of course risen in nine of the prior 14....

We analyze the gold market ahead of the Federal Reserve`s Policy Rate Decision, and the Bank of Japan`s Monetary Decision this week. The bottom line: No rate hike this week means buy gold. Just...

iShares Silver (NYSE:SLV) – on sell signal. Silver is on a major buy signal. Speculation remains near all time high. Summary Silver is on a major buy signal. Short term is on sell signal. COT...

UK Brent, D1 On the daily chart, the instrument is trading in the lower Bollinger® band. The indicator is directed down while the price range remains unchanged. MACD histogram is near the zero...

Stocks saw a very choppy week last week, as we enter the seasonally 6 to 8 week, challenging stretch of the year. I’m expecting lots of chop with a few trades here and I’ll also be looking...

The moment of truth for crude oil's coil-pattern setup is approaching as oil presses toward a test of the Sept. 1 low at $43, which if violated, will morph the June-Sept. corrective coil-type...

I share this one chart of crude oil, which has the new front month of November. My view is that breaking 43.59 is the next important event, since that’ll slice us through a trendline...

Crude Oil: Looking for a weekly close above trendline support.Original post

Gold forming a descending triangle within the general uptrendOriginal post

Gold's retreat from last week’s highs comes on two fronts. First, longs are paring back positions ahead of the FOMC next week.Non commercial and non reportable positions increased their long...

Oil is still pushing lower to complete red wave C or 3. We have marked twofold support levels around the 41.77 region since we have two possible outcomes. Anyhow near term target is at the mentioned...

Natural Gas has been bumping along the bottom of its long-term range for most of 2016. Indeed in March of this year, Natural Gas hit record lows of around $1.6 MMBTU’s.(that’s 1.6 million...

When it comes to investing in gold, there’s more than one way to skin a cat. You can buy gold futures … or a gold-linked exchange-traded fund. You could keep a few coins in your sock...