Analysis Topic: Commodity Markets - Metals, Softs & Oils
The analysis published under this topic are as follows.Thursday, January 14, 2010
Will 140% Return on Warrants of Gold and Silver Miners Repeat in 2010? / Commodities / Gold and Silver 2010
A comparison of the returns of the various gold investment alternatives achieved in 2009 clearly shows that gold bugs were misguided in focusing on gold bullion alone. Why? Because gold was NOT where the major profits were realized - not by a long shot!
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Thursday, January 14, 2010
Gold, Silver Oil and Natural Gas Commodity Futures Trading At Pivot Points / Commodities / Commodities Trading
The commodity futures charts and gold precious metal stocks have be trading with increased volatility as they bounce between support and resistance levels on the daily and hourly charts.
This report is focused more on technical analysis and charts so that I can show you what I feel these commodities are lining up to do.
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Thursday, January 14, 2010
Watch Natural Gas in 2010 / Commodities / Natural Gas
If there is one commodity that I believe will be worth watching in 2010, it will be natural gas. Natural gas has the technical characteristics of an asset poised for a secular trend change from down to up, and I believe the price action over the past 4 months has already confirmed that a trend change is underway.
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Wednesday, January 13, 2010
Gold and Silver Recover from Earlier Plunge on Fresh U.S. Dollar Weakness / Commodities / Gold and Silver 2010
THE PRICE OF GOLD regained a third of yesterday's 2.5% plunge in London dealing on Wednesday, bouncing as the US Dollar eased back and Wall Street futures pointed higher from Tuesday's 1.0% drop.
By the time New York traders reached their desks, gold priced in Dollars stood little changed from last week's close at $1137 an ounce.
Wednesday, January 13, 2010
Gold Falls 2% as Macroeconomic and Geopolitical Risk Sees Increasing Risk Aversion / Commodities / Gold and Silver 2010
Gold fell nearly 2% yesterday as talk of China curbing lending (raising the proportion of deposits that banks must hold in reserve) saw traders take profits. Gold range traded in Asian trade before rising to currently trade at $1,134.00/oz at 1000 GMT. In euro and GBP terms, gold is trading at €782/oz and £698/oz respectively. The German economy shrank by 5% last year, its deepest recession since World War II. This makes the euro vulnerable to a correction - especially given the risk of insolvency to some other EU members. Gold's resistance at €800 per ounce could be overcome soon.
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Wednesday, January 13, 2010
Outlook for Commodity trading 2010 / Commodities / Commodities Trading
Everyone would love to know what would be the outlook for the commodity markets and commodity trading. After a roaring 2007 and 2008 it seemed that commodity trading advisors would know no limit. The stock markets collapsed in 2008 and fear was rampant through out the world. During the turmoil when virtually every strategy lost money the Newedge CTA Index was up 13.07%. However in 2009 we encountered one of the biggest run up in the history of Wall Street and commodity traders did not find oppurtunities to profit. Many question was this a dead cat bounce or have things really changed and improved?
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Wednesday, January 13, 2010
Silver Bearish Technicality / Commodities / Gold and Silver 2010
Don't get me wrong: I love silver - I have for as long as I can remember. There is just something about the oft-mystically-mentioned white metal that attracts me. Maybe I hate vampires (that new Twilight craze certainly hasn't added any vampire merit points), or maybe I just like high electrical conductivity and a pure looking luster.
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Tuesday, January 12, 2010
Why Silver Premiums Are Critical to Your Bottom Line / Commodities / Gold and Silver 2010
Investors looking for the best and most lucrative silver investment should be keen to buy physical silver that carries the lowest premiums. Consider these three reasons why.
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Tuesday, January 12, 2010
Unemployment, A Boon for Silver / Commodities / Gold and Silver 2010
There isn't a single commodity, equity, or security that escapes the influence of the unemployment rate. Typically, unemployment has lasting implications on investments, but for metals, it may be positive rather than negative.
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Tuesday, January 12, 2010
Bottom Fishing in the Junior Precious Metals Sector 2010 / Commodities / Gold & Silver Stocks
According to John Kaiser, creator of the Bottom-Fish Index, companies on his 2010 list are cheap because the market thinks the junior resource sector lacks the staying power it needs for their management group to guide them into significant growth. Whether the market is correct remains to be seen. John hopes to never again see a Bottom-Fishing opportunity such as that left in the wake of the crash of 2008. That said, the denizens of the deep he dredged up for his 2009 Bottom-Fish Index soared spectacularly close to 300% last year and in this exclusive Gold Report interview, he says they may double or triple in the year we've just begun. As for gold, regardless of where the price goes—up, down or sideways—John has suggestions about good places investors to be.
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Tuesday, January 12, 2010
Central Asia's Most Precious Resource is Water, Not Oil / Commodities / Water Sector
In every drop of water there is a grain of gold." - Aral proverb
Since the 1991 collapse of the USSR, foreign investors have looked at the former Soviet space as a land rich in underdeveloped resources waiting for Western technology and finance to bring to the world market. Gold from Kyrgyzstan, uranium and oil from Kazakhstan, oil and natural gas from Azerbaijan - all have begun to make their way to the global market, generating rich profits for both their owners and developers.
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Tuesday, January 12, 2010
Will Gold be the only Currency? / Commodities / Gold and Silver 2010
Lets face it…when we look at a $100 Bill. It says this note is legal tender for all debts public and private. More so. It says In God We Trust. However… Can we still believe in the central banks, the FDIC or for that fact any currency because at the end of the day it is just a piece of fine weaved paper. It does not matter if it is the US dollar, the Japanese Yen or the Swiss Franc… It is just paper. I am not a gold bug nor do I know where the gold market is headed. I am a trend following commodity trader who just reacts and tries to follow trends when they happen.Read full article... Read full article...
Tuesday, January 12, 2010
Gold Falls on China Rate Tightening / Commodities / Gold and Silver 2010
THE PRICE OF GOLD fell early Tuesday in London dealing, dropping below $1148 an ounce as commodity prices and equities fell after China's central bank reduced credit supplies in the world's fastest-growing economy.
The gold price gave back half of Monday's 2.1% jump agains the Dollar after the People's Bank raised its yield on 1-year bills by 0.08% – twice the expected rise – and withdrew a one-day record worth $29 billion in cash from the Chinese bond market.
Tuesday, January 12, 2010
Gold Rises as Financial Markets Wobble on Increased Interest Rate Risk and Alcoa / Commodities / Gold and Silver 2010
Gold rose 1% yesterday reaching 5-week highs and range traded between $1,151/oz and $1,158/oz overnight. It has dropped off slightly since but remains marginally higher in late morning trade in London. The poor jobs report last Friday has created investor uncertainty and has seen dollar weakness in the early part of the week leading to the firm gold price. Alcoa's below consensus earnings have not soothed these jitters. Gold is currently trading at $1,152.00/oz and in euro and GBP terms, gold is trading at €796/oz and £716/oz respectively.
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Tuesday, January 12, 2010
New Crude Oil Index to Create Even More Profit Opportunities for Investors / Commodities / Crude Oil
Kent Moors, Ph.D writes: Speculators in New York won't be calling the shots anymore. Not in oil, anyway.
The way we price it. The places we trade it. The companies that stand to profit most.
Tuesday, January 12, 2010
Silver Futures Reversal: Can the 2008 Highs Be Taken Out? / Commodities / Gold and Silver 2010
Trading Silver Futures: Silver bulls have been rewarded for their patience during the recent sell off with a very strong bullish weekly reversal bar, one that also forms one end of a very nice up trend line (see dotted blue line on the chart). For the moment, the momentum is now back in the hands of the bulls, and there seem to be numerous technical clues that suggest that another attempt to take out the March 2008 near $21.19 may be launched soon. A look at the weekly chart for cash Silver may help us discern how far this new reversal may run.
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Tuesday, January 12, 2010
Gold, Silver, Platinum...W.T.F.?! / Commodities / Gold and Silver 2010
Brad Stafford here in place of Adam Hewison and I have a great new video for you. I’m sure many of you read that title and your mind went in the gutter, but today I’m going to show you a whole new meaning for this acronym and how it applies to gold, silver, and platinum.
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Tuesday, January 12, 2010
Rewarding New Decade for Agri-Foods Investors / Commodities / Agricultural Commodities
What needed remembering this past week as a goodly part of the Northern Hemisphere sat frozen was that all that cold was a mirage. This cold weather, practically everywhere, was really just cloaking the underlying warming trend of the world. Do not let this cold weather fool you! This phony cold weather does, however, have some hidden dangers. We have been, here in south Florida, under an Iguana Alert. Iguanas, which are illegal immigrants without a natural predator, become immobile at temperatures below 40 degrees. They were falling out of the trees, which made walking under Iguana filled trees dangerous.
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Tuesday, January 12, 2010
How Does U.S. Dollar Weakness Impact Gold and Silver Investors? / Commodities / Gold and Silver 2010
During the past week we've sent a Market Alert to our Subscribers, in which we commented on the current developments on the precious metals market, and indicated what action appears to be profitable under those conditions, and in the following essay we would like to elaborate on one of the points raised in that particular message.
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Tuesday, January 12, 2010
More Mexican Precious Metals Investing Stars Part2 / Commodities / Gold & Silver Stocks
As we learned in Part I of Trey Wasser's interview, his Mexican Gold & Silver Explorers Model (MSG) tracks junior explorers and producers as they define and develop precious metal assets and bring them into profitable production. Trey's model-based index has enjoyed a 250% increase since inception in January 2007—including no loss in the 2008 crash—so he clearly has a keen eye for what it takes to make a winner. Read on as Trey willingly shares insights on lots of his favorites in Part II of this exclusive interview.
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