Commodities Analysis & Opinion

Jordan Roy-Byrne recently posted an interesting video discussing gold’s Commitments of Traders (COT) data. The video was a response to numerous articles warning that the COT situation was...

The Oregon legislature has adopted a first-in-the-nation plan to phase out electricity from coal, a major source of climate-changing greenhouse gases.The state's environmental community had been...

For those looking forward to a permanent recovery in oil prices don’t hold your breath. With recent gains made after the FOMC meeting and increased fear mongering from OPEC, the news seems to be...

With the March meeting of the Federal Open Market Committee now past, on rates their having passed, (as was widely forecast), let's start straight-away with the Economic Barometer as we're somewhat...

A calendar of key events in the Commodities Market for the week ahead.To read the entire report Please click on the pdf File Below

Gold and silver markets showed serious disrespect to Janet Yellen while she was speaking on “monetary policy” Wednesday on CNBC. I couldn’t say exactly what happened, but I liked...

A solid week for markets as they rested well until the Federal Reserve released their statement, which kept rates the same and lowered their expectations of four rate hikes this year to two, and...

Gold edged lower Friday and ended the week slightly lower as the dollar steadied after suffering significant losses following the FOMC’s statement on Wednesday. Gold regained much of the...

Weekly Large Trader COT Report: WTI Crude Oil CFTC COT data shows speculator’s oil bets continued higher last week WTI Crude Oil Non-Commercial Positions: Futures market traders and large oil...

Weekly Large Trader COT Report: Gold Gold speculative positions edged down last week to +169,512 contracts GOLD Non-Commercial Positions: Gold speculator and large futures traders reduced their gold...

The natural gas markets continue to struggle overall, as the pricing power is still all but gone. The market is still below the $2 level, and we believe that we will continue to see negative pressure....

Gold and gold stocks have refused to correct for more than a few days at a time. Weakness is being bought and quickly. Gold has gained over $200/oz but not corrected by more than 6%. The miners...

As WTI continues to move higher, up 50% from the multi-decade low back in February, U.S. oil producers may be preparing to increase production and crash the market once again.FundamentalsThe survival...

Nearby oil has traversed its Feb.-Mar. bullish channel again to the upside off of Tuesday’s pullback-low at $35.96 into the $41-$42 area -- the upper-channel boundary zone.Notice that this new...