Analysis Topic: Commodity Markets - Metals, Softs & Oils
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Wednesday, January 15, 2014
Gold Contrarians’ Wildest Dream Coming True / Commodities / Gold and Silver 2014
By: Jeff_Clark
As most readers know, Doug Casey's most notable characteristic as an investor is his highly successful contrarian nature. It's how he bagged some of his biggest wins—not just doubles and triples, but 10- and 20-fold returns.
There's only one way to realize these kinds of gains: You must buy when the asset is out of favor. Buying an investment that has already run up is at best chasing momentum and at worst a portfolio wrecker.
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Wednesday, January 15, 2014
Gold and Silver - Inflation and Deflation - Fire and Ice / Commodities / Gold and Silver 2014
By: DeviantInvestor
Fractional reserve banking and central banking began their reign of destruction upon our financial world a few centuries ago.
Politician's greed and need for control over people have been ever-present.
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Wednesday, January 15, 2014
GOLD Price Corrective Rally Within Downtrend / Commodities / Gold and Silver 2014
By: Gregor_Horvat
GOLD DailyGold has turned bearish at the start of September, after the break through the rising trend line of a corrective channel. We knew at the time that it was an important signal for a change in trend, which means that bearish price action is back in play which also accelerated at the end of December, so we assume that price is moving down in larger wave 5) heading through 1180 June low. With that said, we think that current bounce is most likely just another corrective rally in the middle of a bearish trend. Resistance is seen around 1250/1270 from where new sell-off could occur.
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Tuesday, January 14, 2014
Gold - Is now the time to ‘Back Up The Truck’? / Commodities / Gold and Silver 2014
By: Peter_Degraaf
According to a famous trader of the past, W. D. Gann: “Time is more important (in markets), than price; when time is up, price will reverse.”
It has now been 29 months since gold last reached a new high in its current bull market cycle. The downtrend lasted 22 months (top to bottom), having bottomed on June 28th 2013 at $1180. Confirmation of the bottom came on Dec 31 when gold briefly touched $1182, and left behind a double bottom, see chart #3.
Tuesday, January 14, 2014
Reasons To Buy Gold NOW! / Commodities / Gold and Silver 2014
By: Money_Morning
Peter Krauth writes: Gold fell by 28% in 2013. That's a huge reversal of a decade-plus trend.
Between 2001 and 2012, gold managed positive gains every single year, a track record unmatched by any major asset.
The precious metal went from a low of $255 in April 2001 to a high of $1,900 in September 2011, for a peak return of 745%.
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Tuesday, January 14, 2014
How Putin Conquered South Africa, Russia Uranium Victory over the United States / Commodities / Uranium
By: Marin_Katusa
In the global war for energy supremacy, Russia has won another victory over the United States.
This time, the battleground has been South Africa, where Russia's state-owned nuclear power company, Rosatom, has just signed an agreement to build eight new reactors. Once all of them are operational, South Africa's nuclear capacity will increase more than sixfold—from 1.8 gigawatts (GW) to 11.4 GW over the next 15 years.
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Monday, January 13, 2014
Buy Oil Stocks Shielded from Middle East Uncertainty / Commodities / Oil Companies
By: Submissions
Richard Cox writes: As most investors know, the seemingly constant threat of conflict in the Middle East has the ability to create drastic volatility in oil. The most recent example of this has been seen in Syria, which only accounts for 0.5% of world oil production (500,000 barrels per day). But the possibility of a disruptive chain reaction has been enough to put markets on edge and bring increased volatility to oil and most energy-related assets. Syria’s close ties with Iran, the possibility of a civil war in Iraq, and near-constant turmoil in Egypt mean that economic sanctions could be seen at any time.
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Monday, January 13, 2014
Silver 2014 - A Great Buy Opportunity! / Commodities / Gold and Silver Stocks 2014
By: Peter_Zihlmann
Silver: the Indispensable Element
Silver has innumerable applications in art, science, industry and beyond.
At the highest level, though, demand for silver breaks down into three important categories:
• silver in industry,
• investment, and
• silver jewelry & décor.
Monday, January 13, 2014
Silver - Both Sides of the Coin / Commodities / Gold and Silver 2014
By: Rambus_Chartology
In this Weekend Report I would like to show you some charts for silver which shows a bullish and bearish scenario. As we are at an inflection point we need to monitor both sides of the precious metals complex for clues that may give us the next important direction this group, as a whole, may move. To pick an absolute bottom is next to impossible to do but one can get very close sometimes if a clear and open mind is present.
Sunday, January 12, 2014
New Gold Price Bull Market Cycle Has Started / Commodities / Gold and Silver 2014
By: Chris_Vermeulen
2013 was one of the worst years for gold in a generation and the strangest part of it is that this loss came during a time in what should have been a banner year for gold.
When the Fed launched its QE1 and QE2 programs, gold posted huge gains but with QE3, we only had a brief rally in late 2012, it’s been all downhill for there.
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Sunday, January 12, 2014
Gold Price is Going Higher / Commodities / Gold and Silver 2014
By: Thomas_Clayton
Two weeks ago I wrote: “Gold Probably Has Bottomed”, Last Week Gold Has Bottomed”, and this week, “Gold Is Going Higher”. Of course, there must be proof and the proof is in the Charts. Anyone who can predict for more than a few days, I don´t think they know what they are talking about. There is this Harry Dent Service you can subscribe to who says “Gold will go Up then down to $250 an ounce.” He lost my following with that statement forever. Prices do undulate, however, in waves in a Mathematical Rhythm which according to the Elliott Wave Theory. Sometimes the Five Wave Theory works and sometimes it doesn’t then the interpreter covers himself by subwaves, and if this happens and that happens. Well, the Theory seems to work if July 28th,2013 was indeed the bottom and retested in late Decemember 2013 with a confirmation on the last day of the year, December 31, 2013. Read full article... Read full article...
Saturday, January 11, 2014
Gold And Silver – There Are Reasons Greater Than Demand For Owning Them / Commodities / Gold and Silver 2014
By: Michael_Noonan
Here is some very cogent rationale for owning gold and silver. None pertain to the ever-ending reasons that demonstrate great demand. Everyone has been hearing about them in a steady stream for the past year, and the impact on the market has been nil. Often in tandem with the latest news, like record coin sales from...[pick a mint or country], is the lament from PM holders on where the current price of gold is, at lows for the past two + years, making many question the validity of owning PMs.
Saturday, January 11, 2014
Second Greatest Opportunity to Buy Gold: Empire Club Investment Outlook 2014 / Commodities / Gold and Silver 2014
By: Nick_Barisheff
Last year, a year that saw gold's greatest decline in 32 years, my book $10,000 Gold was published. How's that for timing.
However, I'm confident that gold's bullish fundamentals are still intact.
Last year the COMEX futures exchange distorted gold prices, and provided investors with the second-greatest opportunity to buy gold since 2002.
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Saturday, January 11, 2014
Why Gold Price Suppression Can NOT Continue / Commodities / Gold and Silver 2014
By: DeepCaster_LLC
“Market data provider Nanex in Winnetka, Illinois, tonight produces proof that Monday’s smash down in the gold futures market was not a mistaken ‘fat finger’ trade but the product of a high-frequency algorithm trading program painstakingly designed to take the market down. Nanex’s report, with great charts, is here: http://www.nanex.net/FlashCrash/OngoingResearch.html ” www.gata.org 01/08/2014
Friday, January 10, 2014
Silver Price SLV ETF Super Bullish Divergence / Commodities / Gold and Silver 2014
By: Zeal_LLC
Despite its miserable 2013, latent investor interest in silver remains strong. This manifested in robust worldwide demand for physical silver driven by its lower prices. The hidden strength in silver was also evident in the holdings of its flagship ETF, which held steady in defiance of plummeting silver prices. SLV’s massive bullish divergence reveals big dormant silver investment demand ready to be unleashed.
If there was ever a year to scare investors away from silver, 2013 was it. This white metal plummeted 35.6% last year, its worst calendar-year performance in 32 years! As the general stock markets melted up in response to the Fed’s epic money printing, capital fled alternative investments like precious metals so their prices utterly collapsed. Silver was largely left for dead, with only hardened contrarians remaining.
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Friday, January 10, 2014
Will Gold and Silver Price Increase from Here? / Commodities / Gold and Silver 2014
By: P_Radomski_CFA
In our previous article on gold, we examined the situation in the U.S. dollar and the euro as many times in the past they gave us important clues about future precious metals’ moves. At that time we wrote in the summary:
(…) gold's lack of will to really (!) react to positive news, like the dollar's huge intra-day drop, is a bearish piece of information on its own and an indication that gold is likely to move lower in the short run.
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Friday, January 10, 2014
Gold… The Bull vs Bear ; Checkmate or Game On ? / Commodities / Gold and Silver 2014
By: Rambus_Chartology
In Keeping with a Theme here at Rambus Chartology lets look in on the complex game being played on the Chess board that is the Precious Metals Market
Tonight I would like to show you some charts from the bull and bear side of the equation for gold. This is called an inflection point where the precious metals complex can move either way and establish some sort of short to intermediate term move. A lot of these charts you have seen before. Lets start with the bearish charts for gold which there are a lot to look at. Before we do I just want to make it perfectly clear that I’m still in the bear camp but as you will see we could have a short to intermediate rally that fits into this scenario that doesn’t change the big picture.
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Friday, January 10, 2014
Banking on Ethanol and High-Tech Fracking / Commodities / Energy Resources
By: The_Energy_Report
Keith Schaefer, editor and publisher of Oil & Gas Investments Bulletin, has built an impressive track record of foreseeing structural changes in the energy industry. Schaefer knows when to take or refuse opportunities in the volatile ethanol industry, as he demonstrates in this interview with The Energy Report. And he knows how to bide his time while waiting for catalytic moments—the singular events that can make all the difference between survival and extinction for a junior oil and gas company struggling to raise above the fray in the fracking fields.
Thursday, January 09, 2014
Violence Threatens to Thwart Iraqi Crude Oil Resurgence / Commodities / Crude Oil
By: OilPrice_Com
A wave of violence has swept parts of Iraq at the start of 2014 as the central government fights back against Al-Qaeda aligned militants in Anbar Province. The Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) reportedly took control of Ramadi and Fallujah, bombing police headquarters and killing dozens. On New Year's Day Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki sent in reinforcements to take back control of Anbar Province's two largest cities. The clashes kick off 2014 in much the same way as 2013 ended – a return to violence in a country that had seen important security gains in recent years.
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Thursday, January 09, 2014
Will Silver Price Rebound in 2014? / Commodities / Gold and Silver 2014
By: DailyGainsLetter
John Paul Whitefoot writes: The year 2013 was not kind to gold; the yellow metal closed the year down about 28%—its biggest annual drop in three decades. But in spite of the awful year for gold, it wasn’t the worst-performing metal in 2013. That dubious distinction goes to silver.
On the heels of quantitative easing, a devaluation of the dollar, and inflation, safe haven investors were expecting silver prices to trade in the $30.00–$50.00-an-ounce range. Sadly for these investors, that did not come to fruition.
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