Gold’s been on a wild ride. After reaching a peak of $1,920 an ounce in September 2011, gold has tumbled 28% to the current ~$1,380 level forcing John Paulson to take a 47% loss in his gold fund...

Markets & Manipulation: A long HistoryMost markets these days are manipulated to some extent, and this is nothing new if we look back through the history of financial markets. But there are some ...

Portfolio Rebalancing for start of 2013Silver closed Friday`s trading session at $28.46 an ounce, capping off what has been an auspicious start to 2013. On January 23rd, Silver was trading at $32 and ...

Natural Gas closed Friday at $3.35 per mmBtu, and has been on a three month downtrend from the $4 level where it put in a near-term double top in October and November of 2012. This was a classic short...

Dow Record in sightWe are 200 points from breaking a new high in the Dow Industrials, which got me looking back at assets over the last 25 years in relation to the value of the US Dollar Index, and ...

An Auction with Fake Buyers, that will end well!The reason why is when you have the Federal government in the form of the Federal Reserve injecting 85 Billion worth of artificial capital, i.e., ...

The Cotton Market and Historical SlumberThe Cotton market was a pretty calm market until the last four months of 2010 through the first four months of 2011 when it awoke from its giant slumber to more...

Down trending MarketThe Wheat market is definitely in a downtrend right now, and if we look at the 6 month chart we stand at $7.42 a bushel as of the close of last week. If we break $7.20 a bushel, ...

Trading: State of the UnionI was visiting a large oil trading floor last year, and they were having their big state of the union town hall on the floor and the CEO of the group that trading and ...

Portraits from the Dark Period"The price has nothing to do with a shortage of oil. There's a lot of oil on the market. It's because of speculation and OPEC cannot control speculation." Quote by OPEC ...