Commodities Analysis & Opinion

Gold went down this past week. Sort of. It settled Friday at 1396.2. Which means that having settled the prior week at 1396.3, Gold net of the five trading days lost one trading "pip", (10¢).As...

I've been watching old episodes of The West Wing, the acclaimed television series about life and work in the West Wing of the White House. In one sequence of shows, bombers kill two U.S. congressmen...

The once famous Edwin Starr’s song War (What is it Good For?) has this line: War, huh, yeah. What is it good for? Absolutely nothing.Well, moral issues aside, wars and conflicts are certainly...

While there are many ways to invest in gold, none that have entailed long positions have been very rewarding in recent market action. Over the last week of trading, the GLD, the exchange traded fund...

A very quiet week all in all last week, with many traders taking off mid-week for an extra long, long weekend. We will see many participants return to work next week and volume should once again begin...

The last several weeks have seen a return of all the ingredients for a gold rally, from an “oversold” technical condition which sparked a short-covering rally to a spike in Treasury yields...

In late June, only 8 weeks ago I alerted all of my readers to a major buy signal in precious metals and energy. I was absolutely amazed at the investor euphoria in equities at the time and the...

Regarding 1-2 years of potentially moving sideways, we would be happy to be wrong. Last week, in a week of no news relevant to gold and silver, gold slipped under the 1400 level, for some "unknown"...

Gold has topped at the important resistance of 1420-30 and is now turning lower. Gold broke out and down from its upward-sloping channel from 1270. If you follow our analysis through our cooperation...