Analysis Topic: Commodity Markets - Metals, Softs & Oils
The analysis published under this topic are as follows.Wednesday, June 07, 2017
Gold Price Breakout? / Commodities / Gold and Silver 2017
Gold actually broke its bear market trend line last year. There was never any doubt that a new bull market had begun.
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Wednesday, June 07, 2017
Gold Price Is Facing 1295.44 Resistance / Commodities / Gold and Silver 2017
After touching the ascending trend line from the January 27 low of 1180.51 to the March 10 low of 1194.94 on its daily chart, XAUUSD rebounded strongly from 1214.17 and the pair is now facing 1295.44 resistance.
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Wednesday, June 07, 2017
Gold Price Rallies / Commodities / Gold and Silver 2017
Gold futures have risen to 1298.65 thus far today. I have redrawn the chart to show a probable Broadening Wedge that may allow gold to rally to the Cycle Top at 1335.49. However, I would approach this projection with care, since today Wave 5 has reached equality with Wave 1 and the Cycles Model shows peak strength today, as well. The Broadening Wedge does not require the final rally to touch the upper trendline. Despite all this, should there be a flash crash in equities, gold may still rally higher.
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Tuesday, June 06, 2017
Gold and Silver on Major Buy Signals / Commodities / Gold and Silver 2017
Technical analyst Jack Chan charts the latest moves in the precious metals markets, noting a new major sell signal in the USD, which supports metal prices.
Our proprietary cycle indicator is down.
Tuesday, June 06, 2017
UK Terrorist Attacks See Gold Price Stay Firm / Commodities / Gold and Silver 2017
A summer evening on London Bridge and in Borough Market ended in terror on Saturday as attackers killed seven people and injured 48.
This is the second terrorist attack on British soil in less than two weeks and the the third this year. The attack was immediately labelled as a terrorist attack. In the hours that followed police arrested a further 12 people who were suspected of having links to the horrendous incident.
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Tuesday, June 06, 2017
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Sunday, June 04, 2017
Gold Mining Stocks in 2017 Whipsaw / Commodities / Gold and Silver Stocks 2017
Ever since 2012’s failure of the ‘QE 3 rally’ in the precious metals it has not been fruitful to micro manage the gold sector, because that failure jump started a savage bear market that would need time to work out the excesses both in the sector’s investor base and in its mining businesses, which had become bloated and inefficient. That’s what bear markets do; they clean out the landscape to make it inhabitable for new investors one day. Here is a weekly chart showing the bear’s kickoff. HUI’s 55 week EMA then became the ball and chain that kept its fate sealed (red arrows) until January of 2016.
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Saturday, June 03, 2017
Gold Miners Weak but not Oversold / Commodities / Gold and Silver 2017
If looking at Gold only in a vacuum, it looks good. Its uptrend since the start of the year remains intact and it has pushed above its 50 and 200-day moving averages. It closed the week at $1280/oz and could test $1300 next week. But looks can be deceiving. Considering the US Dollar index closed at a 7-month low today, Gold is lagging a bit. Moreover, both Silver and the gold miners have not confirmed Gold’s recent rise. In fact, the miners are lagging the metals “bigly.” At the moment the miners are not so oversold but a reversal in Gold could be the catalyst that pushes miners to oversold extremes.
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Saturday, June 03, 2017
Gold Keep Calm and Carry On / Commodities / Gold and Silver 2017
As precious metals expert Michael Ballanger ponders the current markets, he vows to "Keep Calm and Carry On." As I was walking through the shopping district of Kingston-on-Thames yesterday, I was wondering whether the locals had gotten the memo that the country remained on "High Alert" in light of the Manchester bombings. Here I was in the middle of an historic "village," walking across the Clattern Bridge (built in 1293) along with thousands of British shoppers, laughing and joking, sitting in pubs, talking about the rugby matches and generally going about their regular daily business as if nothing had happened. If I could have drawn little "thought balloons" above each and every person I observed, there would be one simple image of a raised middle finger everywhere. It was a wonderful, beautiful thing to witness.
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Friday, June 02, 2017
Silver Short-Squeeze Potential / Commodities / Gold and Silver 2017
Silver has suffered a lackluster year so far, really lagging gold’s upleg. Sentiment is still reeling following silver’s crushing selloff from mid-April to mid-May. But that plunge was largely driven by extreme silver-futures selling by speculators, including a blistering spike in short selling. The resulting excessive shorts have left silver with excellent near-term potential for a short squeeze, which would catapult it rapidly higher.
Technically, silver ultimately acts like a leveraged play on gold. The yellow metal has long been silver’s dominant primary driver. Investors and speculators alike flock to silver when gold is rallying, forcing this tiny market to surge dramatically. But when gold sentiment is weak due to lackluster price action, silver demand from traders dries up. Thus silver drifts listlessly or grinds lower, compounding bearish psychology.
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Friday, June 02, 2017
Silver and NASDAQ Strength Will Reverse / Commodities / Gold and Silver 2017
Bubbles come and go.
Silver and gold – 1980
Japanese Nikkei – 1990
NASDAQ – 2000
Mortgages and Real Estate – 2006
Bonds, Debt, Stocks, Real Estate – 2017
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Friday, June 02, 2017
Has Permian Crude Oil Productivity Peaked? / Commodities / Crude Oil
The U.S. shale industry might have just received a huge windfall with the nine-month extension of the OPEC cuts. Shale output was already expected to come roaring back this year, but the extension of the cuts provides even more room in the market for shale drillers to step into.
The sky is the limit, it seems. However, there are growing signs that the U.S. shale industry could be reaching the end of the low-hanging fruit. Or, more specifically, drilling costs are starting to rise and the enormous leaps in production that can be obtained by simply adding more rigs also appears to be running into some trouble.
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Thursday, June 01, 2017
Gold Price Moves Higher but Miners Don’t / Commodities / Gold and Silver 2017
Yesterday’s session was yet another one in row when mining stocks underperformed the yellow metal, which continues to have bearish implications. Nonetheless, gold moved to new short-term highs and in today’s alert we’re going to discuss the implications of this move.
In short, there are no important ones. Let’s see why (charts courtesy of http:/stockcharts.com).
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Thursday, June 01, 2017
Is the Energy Rally Running out of Gas ? / Commodities / Natural Gas
Today I would like to update some charts for Natural Gas and oil which appear to be building out a topping formation. If these patterns play out there is a lot of room to the downside we can take advantage of. There has been a lot of backing and filling, but it looks like this may be coming to an end and we may finally get the impulse move down.
$NATGAS has been building out a 1 year H&S topping pattern and just recently completed the high for the right shoulder. This daily chart shows a blue 5 point bearish rising flag that broke below the bottom rail today. A backtest to the underside of the 5 point bearish rising flag would come in around the 3.18 area which would represent a low risk entry point to go short natural gas. The possible neckline is still quite a bit lower which would be another low risk entry point if the neckline gives way.
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Thursday, June 01, 2017
Gold Benefits from Uncertainty Thanks to Twitter and UK Election / Commodities / Gold and Silver 2017
- Gold hits five-week high
- Reaches $1,273.74/oz, highest since April 25th
- Sterling recovers after UK polls point towards a hung Parliament
- Expected Fed-tightening capped gains
- 90-dead in Kabul, further signs of increasing tension in Middle East
- Trump expected to pull out of Paris Accord and Trump’s anti-Iran axis already feuding
Thursday, June 01, 2017
How Low Could Crude Oil Price Go? / Commodities / Crude Oil
Although crude oil climbed above the level of $50 yesterday, this improvement was very temporary and the black gold closed the day below this barrier. In this way light crude invalidated the earlier breakout, which will likely trigger further declines. How low could the commodity go in the coming days?
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Thursday, June 01, 2017
Kenadyr's Kyrgyz Region Gold Drilling Improves on Historic Results / Commodities / Gold and Silver Stocks 2017
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Thursday, June 01, 2017
[TRADE ALERT] Write This Gold Stock Ticker Down Now / Commodities / Gold and Silver 2017
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Wednesday, May 31, 2017
Silver Elliottwave Followup: Looking for 16.90 / Commodities / Gold and Silver 2017
Hoag Trading : Talking Point:
Technical Strategy: Turning Bearish
Elliottwave View: Progressing reversal.
Wednesday, May 31, 2017
Gold Price Seasonal Low / Commodities / Gold and Silver 2017
Gold rallied $14.90/oz. last week closing at 1,267.60. On Friday, gold printed a gravestone doji candlestick (bearish). Seasonality is bearish in June. The June/July period has a strong tendency to mark a low. In addition, a 40-wk cycle low is due in July. Despite a whipsaw in Nov-Jan, the 34mo moving average is a good indicator of trend. Currently, gold is above the moving average keeping the long-term trend bullish.
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