Commodities Analysis & Opinion

Dear Madame Chair:Allow me to acknowledge your and your Committee's taking to heart our prior missive regarding renewed strength in both Gold and the Bond market as indicative that an interest rate...

A retrace that fills open gaps and kisses the 50-day moving average surprises everyone who was confident oil was heading straight down to $40/barrel. When the conventional media ordains oil inevitably...

And so it begins… Collapsing crude prices are starting to make their way through the North American energy sector, as the most unprofitable oil & gas rigs are mothballed. Those flashing red...

Weekly CFTC Net Speculator Crude Oil Report CFTC COT data shows speculators push bullish bets up by +22,303 contracts for weekCRUDE OIL: Futures market traders and large speculators sharply added to...

CountingPips.com | Weekly CFTC Net Speculator Gold Report Gold positions sees small gain to rise for a third weekGOLD: Large futures traders and gold speculators added to their overall bullish bets...

Gold enters the final ten days of 2014 in a very interesting, and far from clear, position. Some observations in no particular order:Gold in US dollar terms is down slightly less than 1% year to date...

Natural gas futures continued sliding hitting a low of $3.315 on yesterday's session, 25% lower than the Jan 2014 settlement price. Natural gas futures have been hit by relatively mild temperatures...

Putin's PrayerA large number of Oil pricing experts – taking this to mean the interaction of oil, finance and the global economy – would likely agree that $75 a barrel is a reasonable and...

Gold stocks have suffered a miserable few years, becoming a laughingstock even among contrarians. But this despised sector’s seemingly-endless downward spiral has left gold stocks vastly...

The US Energy Information Administration’s latest Short-Term Energy Outlook, forecasts that Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) member countries not counting Iran will...

Gold and Silver stocks put in a bullish weekly reversal, although neither has not confirmed it. The interplay between the metals and the shares has been complicated in recent weeks. Hopefully, this...

As you know, oil prices have plunged since June. Many so-called experts such as T. Boone Pickens are predicting prices will, indeed, go back to $100 a barrel. Below I give you three reasons why oil...

The U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA) reported Thursday morning that U.S. natural gas stocks decreased by 64 billion cubic feet for the week ending December 12. That compared with an...

Signals are automatically generated by integrating electronic weekly statistics with proprietary algorithms.GoldWEEKLY MOVING AVERAGESThe February gold futures contract closed at 1195. The market...