Commodities Analysis & Opinion

This time, I'm going to change up the weekend newsletter and focus on the 8-year cycle. I compiled a brief list of arguments supporting its early arrival and separate evidence opposing it.I originally...

This article aims to provide price forecasts for commodity futures for May 27, 2016.The table below shows the weekly commodity futures prices in US dollars over the period from April 22, 2016 to May...

While virtually every commodity known to man has been plunging over the past 18 months there has been one very notable exception.Lithium carbonate prices rose 47% in the first quarter of 2016 compared...

“Gold is always a safe haven at times when risks for investors are escalating. It’s better to sit out turbulence with gold,”.This is the standard remark from most economists when it...

Dominoes Are FallingReverberations from the oil-price crash continue as more bankruptcies and increased geopolitical tensions are causing a seismic shift in the long term outlook for energy...

Many of you are aware my friend Northy’s OPEX chart, which shows that, almost without exception, options expiration weeks are screamingly bullish for stocks. I was quite torn about this a week...

Gold traded bearishly in the Asian session, but it remains trapped within a tight range after touching 1260.00, which is a negative signal. RSI is negative, but ADX needs a stable move below 1247.00....

Oil-June settlement- has stabilized above 48.50 where 88.6% exists, while ADX shows increase in bulls’ power although RSI resides near 70.00. We will ignore the signals on RSI due to stability...

Key themes The outlook for commodity markets is slowly turning in a more positive direction. Recent monetary stimulus from the European Central Bank, the Federal Reserve and the Bank of Japan, the...

Gold price has broken down yesterday as we expected towards $1,240 and bounced. Price stabilized for a few hours around $1,260-55 and then broke to new lows. Price is expected to move even lower as I...

As we discussed last week, the period between May 1 to August 31 is the weakest season, annually, for stock performance.Over the last 10 years, the Dow Jones Industrial Average has experienced a...

With expiration of the June crude oil on Friday May 20th, the most actively traded contract is now the July contract. July crude oil traded to 49.56 on Wednesday, May 18th, a new high for the year and...

The FOMC minutes released yesterday afternoon were the real player across the commodity complex as all indications point to a greater chance of a June rate hike than previously considered. Strong US...

The chart shows that silver and SLV are both testing triple resistance inside of a falling channel at (1) above. This test of resistance is happening just as the “dumb-money traders” have...