Commodities Analysis & Opinion

Charts created using Omega TradeStation 2000i. Chart data supplied by Dial Data After peaking at just over $1,300, back on January 22, 2015 gold has been on a bit of a slide. The prime reason appears...

Near term crude oil outlook:No change in the bigger picture view sign Jan of an important bottoming (see longer term below). However nearer term as been warning, there remains scope for a continued...

Mexico’s massive precious-metals belts are some of the world’s finest. As global #1 in silver production they are obviously quite well known for the shiny-white metal. But these belts have...

As highlighted in last week’s Strategy: A blue world is good for risk assets, Friday 20 February, the current phase of the business cycle with global growth acceleration and accommodative...

Fundamental Forecast for Gold:Neutral Gold Holds Up at $1200, SPX 500 Remains in Consolidation Mode Gold Price 1170s Still Seen as Support Sign up for DailyFX on Demand For Real-Time Gold...

The professional investors must profit by anticipating future trends and events rather than chasing old news. This is done by following the invisible hand or message of the market. That message, the...

Crude Oil prices appear to have settled around $50, half the level of last summer. For income investors, that has played merry hell with the economics of energy master limited partnerships, previously...

My time in San Francisco at The Oil and Services Conference revealed a lot about what’s going on in the hallways and boardrooms of the country’s oil companies. On Tuesday, I explained the...

Investment: asset classes turning pointsSilver has seen its lows, and the Dow may blow-off to 19,700 by the end of next month, if it were to actually do so. I previously thought that such an event...

Weekly CFTC Net Speculator Crude Oil Report CFTC COT data shows speculators oil bets fell sharply lower last weekCRUDE OIL: Futures market traders and large Crude Oil speculators sharply cut their...

Weekly CFTC Net Speculator Gold Report Gold positions fall for fourth week to +126,171 large speculator contractsGOLD: Gold speculators and large futures traders decreased their gold bullish bets last...

Gold’s CoT data predictably improved again this week, but here I think some discussion is needed just in case it starts to get hyped too much.Below is the CoT on an improving trend of Commercial...

Natural gas prices vary widely — not just seasonally (electricity generation for summer air conditioning and winter heat create a familiar wave pattern to prices) but also regionally. It’s...

The Greek Eurozone creditors that have been keeping Greece afloat since 2010 have extended the country’s bailout by four months however it is only the beginning from what we see as a number of...