Analysis Topic: Commodity Markets - Metals, Softs & Oils
The analysis published under this topic are as follows.
Saturday, August 29, 2009
Why Did the U.S. Government Confiscate Gold in 1933 and Can it Happen Again? Part3 / Commodities / Gold & Silver 2009
By: Julian_DW_Phillips
In this the third part of this series we look at the fall of gold as a medium of exchange and the freeing up of gold ownership from August 15th 1974 onwards.
Saturday, August 29, 2009
Profiting from the Precious Metals Sector… / Commodities / Gold & Silver Stocks
By: Oakshire_Financial
In keeping with our recent theme of generating income from gold and gold share investments, we now continue with the final installment in our series. We trust you found the first two parts helpful, the former on convertible gold securities and the latter on covered calls.
Friday, August 28, 2009
Bullish on Crude Oil and Natural Gas ETF / Commodities / Crude Oil
By: Mike_Paulenoff
My hourly work is warning me that crude oil's powerful rally off of
yesterday's low at 69.83 into the morning high at 73.3 exhibits a bullish
profile, which indicates to me that new uptrend might have started rather
than the strength representing an oversold bounce after Tuesday's powerful
dwonside reversal spike.
Friday, August 28, 2009
Gold Is Pale Because It Has So Many Thieves Plotting Against It / Commodities / Gold & Silver 2009
By: Professor_Emeritus
* The title is a quotation from Diogenes Laertius (fl. 2nd century A.D.) This was the favorite quotation of the late Chicago economist and gold expert Melchior Palyi.
25 years ago I visited Comex at the World Trade Center, watching the feverish activity in the gold pit from behind the glass wall in the gallery. A gentleman standing next, unknown to me, remarked: "One day this make-believe charade will come to a bad end. All that these guys are doing down there is creating ever more claims to the same lump of gold -- just as governments have been doing before they met their ignominious fate."
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Friday, August 28, 2009
New Upleg for UltraLong Oil and Gas DIG ETF? / Commodities / Natural Gas
By: Mike_Paulenoff
The hourly candlestick chart of the ProShares Ultra Long Oil & Gas ETF (NYSE: DIG) shows the August rally period, which exhibits bullish form from the August 17 pivot low at 26.43 to the August 25 high at 31.60. After that rally, let’s notice that the pullback to 29.04 yesterday represents an almost exact 50% correction of the prior advance before yesterday afternoon’s initiation of a new upleg.
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Friday, August 28, 2009
Three Triggers for Higher Crude Oil Prices / Commodities / Crude Oil
By: Uncommon_Wisdom
Sean Brodrick writes: Oil prices recently came close to $75 a barrel before heading south again. Enjoy the cheap oil while you can. The odds are you’ll be paying higher oil prices by the end of the year.
The good news is there are some easy ways to profit from it. First, let’s look at the forces that could drive oil higher …
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Friday, August 28, 2009
Ben Bernanke Speaking At Jackson Hole / Commodities / Crude Oil
By: Andrew_McKillop
STILL AN UNCERTAIN OUTLOOK - “Strains persist" in the world banking system and finance markets across the globe, Ben Bernanke said on August 21 at the Jackson Hole, Wyoming annual Federal Reserve meeting of banking and finance deciders. He of course cautioned, like other leading bankers that the economic recovery "...is likely to be relatively slow at first, with unemployment declining only gradually from high levels.”
Friday, August 28, 2009
Gold's Seasonal Bull Market / Commodities / Gold & Silver 2009
By: Zeal_LLC
New gold investors are often surprised to learn that gold prices have a heavy seasonal component. Seasonality makes intuitive sense for commodities inexorably tied to orbital mechanics, like wheat. Their annual late-summer harvest really increases supply. But why should gold, which is mined evenly and continuously throughout the year, have big price swings governed by the solar calendar?
Friday, August 28, 2009
Uranium Investing for a Nuclear Powered World / Commodities / Uranium
By: Richard_Mills
Uranium Investing for a Nuclear Powered World
As a general rule, the most successful man in life is the man who has the best information
Friday, August 28, 2009
Four Reasons Why Gold Will Rise During September / Commodities / Gold & Silver 2009
By: Adrian_Ash
THE PRICE OF GOLD rose in early London trade on Friday, heading into the long August Bank Holiday weekend unchanged from Monday and little changed from the start of the summer at $952 an ounce.
World stock markets also rose, taking London's FTSE100 index to fresh 10-month highs and pulling government bond prices lower.
Friday, August 28, 2009
Evaluating and Choosing Gold Mining Stocks / Commodities / Gold & Silver Stocks
By: Neil_Charnock
One of the most important questions investors have about gold stocks is “which is the best stock to buy”? You want to invest in the next ten bagger, all investors do. Huge profits that leverage the coming gold price rise are most certainly possible in gold stocks however you are unlikely to achieve this by luck. Choosing without in-depth evaluation is a recipe for disaster.
Friday, August 28, 2009
Ellis Martin and David Morgan Discuss Junior Silver Mining Companies / Commodities / Gold & Silver Stocks
By: David_Morgan
Ellis Martin: Welcome to The Opportunity Show. I’m Ellis Martin. Today we are talking about the possibility of making real money at this time by investing in silver stocks. Joining me is silver guru David Morgan of silver-investor.com. Thanks for joining us today again.
Thursday, August 27, 2009
Investing for the New Long Term Energy Bull Market / Commodities / Energy Resources
By: The_Gold_Report
Encompass Fund managers Malcolm Gissen and Marshall Berol sat down with The Energy Report to share their views on energy investing and what they believe are the strongest subsectors in the mix. While bullish on coal and natural gas, both are strong advocates of uranium, citing a "definite supply-demand imbalance." Discover new opportunities for long-term appreciation in this exclusive interview.
Thursday, August 27, 2009
U.S. Bank Enemies At The Gates Could Trigger Sudden Gold Breakout / Commodities / Gold & Silver 2009
By: Jim_Willie_CB
While all manner of attention remains transfixed inside the United States on a remedy and recovery of its bank sector, once again Americans make dangerous assumptions. They tend to assume that the US Federal Reserve near 0% interest rates, Quantitative Easing (aka exploding Printing Pre$$ output), endless liquidity facilities (e.g. TALF), TARP funds (aka Wall Street slush fund), Stress Tests (rigged), bank stock sales (aided by FASB accounting fraud), bank carry trades (exploiting low short-term & higher long-term rates), and the passage of time can revive the US banking industry. They tend domestically to overlook the gradually worsening insolvency condition. Banks are bracing for a new wave of commercial mortgage losses, of prime Option ARMortgage losses, and credit card losses. The delinquency rate of prime Option ARMs is now higher than subprime home loans!!
Thursday, August 27, 2009
Gold Break Out Looms as Stocks Battle Bonds / Commodities / Gold & Silver 2009
By: Adrian_Ash
THE PRICE OF GOLD held inside this week's tight range early Thursday in London, trading up to $949 an ounce as Asian stock markets closed 1% lower and European stocks moved sideways.
Crude oil ticked lower towards $71 per barrel. Government bond prices rose.
Thursday, August 27, 2009
Commodity Trading Alert for GLD, SLV, UNG, USO ETFs / Commodities / Commodities Trading
By: Chris_Vermeulen
GLD Gold Trading Fund – Weekly Chart
As you can see on this weekly chart gold has been consolidating for the past 5 months. This bullish pennant pattern is hinting that prices will breakout to the up side in the coming weeks. If for some reason we see the USD rally then I expect to see the price of gold move down as traders rush to sell their gold bullion. I continue to watch and wait for the next buy signal for gold.
Wednesday, August 26, 2009
Are the Bullion Banks losing their grip on Gold and Silver? / Commodities / Gold & Silver 2009
By: Peter_Degraaf
“The Central Bank is an institution of the most deadly hostility existing against the Principles and form of our Constitution. I am an enemy to all banks discounting bills or notes for anything but coin. If the American people allow private banks to control the issuance of their currency, first by inflation, then by deflation the banks and corporations that grow up around them will deprive the people of all their property, until their children will wake up homeless on the continent their Fathers conquered.” - Thomas Jefferson.
Wednesday, August 26, 2009
Gold and China's Savings Glut, Part I / Commodities / Gold & Silver 2009
By: Adrian_Ash
"They rush about in disorder, anxious slaves of the three M's – the moment, the mode, and the mob. They see too well their want of dignity and fitness, and need a false elegance to hide their galloping consumption..."
- Friedrich Nietzsche, Thoughts Out of Season II: The Use & Abuse of History (1874)
Wednesday, August 26, 2009
Is There an Investment Better than Crude Oil? / Commodities / Natural Gas
By: Q1_Publishing
Is there an investment better than oil?
It seems to many, oil has it all.
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Wednesday, August 26, 2009
U.S. Dollar Versus Gold, the Flea on a Bull's Back / Commodities / Gold & Silver 2009
By: Adam_Brochert
Gold versus paper. That's the real battle under the surface. This is the more important battle from a societal standpoint. Honest money or crooked money. Humans will always cheat, steal and lie, but when a system is set up specifically to promote cheating, stealing and lying, this is exactly what happens on a large scale. Though we were only on a quasi-Gold standard from 1934-1971 in the United States, it at least provided a modicum of restraint. Before 1933, we were on a fairly "pure" Gold standard for several decades.