Analysis Topic: Commodity Markets - Metals, Softs & Oils
The analysis published under this topic are as follows.
Wednesday, November 13, 2013
Gold, It’s Been Proven for 2,500 Years / Commodities / Gold and Silver 2013
By: Richard_Daughty
It’s surprising how many people rudely interrupt me to say “Hey! Shut up for one minute about how the evil Federal Reserve is creating so much currency and credit that we are doomed to a horrible inflationary collapse, and just tell me if you want fries with your burger.”
On the other hand, none of them has ever asked me, “Okay, let’s see how smart you are in solving the economic mess, Mister Know-It-All who thinks he is so smart.”
Wednesday, November 13, 2013
Big Ideas on Gold and Resources in the Big Easy / Commodities / Gold and Silver Stocks 2013
By: Frank_Holmes
For nearly four decades, curious investors have made their way to the Big Easy for a taste of New Orleans and several helpings of advice and perspective at the New Orleans Investment Conference.
Coincidentally, President Barack Obama was in the city recently, speaking at the Louisiana port, which was the setting to showcase his focus on the nation's economy.
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Wednesday, November 13, 2013
Gold Tops and Bots Cycles Analysis / Commodities / Gold and Silver 2013
By: Ed_Carlson
In last week's Commentary I promised to share my forecast for the low of the 10/28/13 decline. I call my approach the Hybrid-Lindsay method as it uses the concept of Middle Sections which were developed by George Lindsay in his seminal paper "An Aid to Timing". Using Middle Sections tells us whether to expect the forecast date to be a high or a low. I combine this approach with what Lindsay called "intervals of equidistance". These are similar to cycles except that they can stretch from high-to-low or low-to-high and not just low-to-low as cycles are normally thought of.
Tuesday, November 12, 2013
Junior Gold Mining Stocks Picking Winners in a Field of Losers / Commodities / Gold and Silver Stocks 2013
By: Don_Miller
The airline tried to zap us with an overweight luggage fee on our flight home from the Casey Summit in Tucson. I was toting piles of notes and ideas to share with our readers, and I had to open two suitcases for the whole world to see. Your 73-year-old scribe was on his hands and knees moving clothes and folders between suitcases, but I managed to sneak in under the weight limit.
A few notes on the junior mining sector were among the stacks of paper I had to shuffle around. Lately the price of gold is seemingly going nowhere, and junior mining stocks are in the tank. Nevertheless, people had a tremendous level of interest in these companies, as evidenced by the crowds around their tables in the Map Room.
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Tuesday, November 12, 2013
Gold Buying Opportunity Like This Doesn't Come Along Often / Commodities / Gold and Silver 2013
By: Money_Morning
Charles Rice writes: Gold prices are the honey badger of precious metals right now.
As 2011's very popular YouTube video showed us, the honey badger makes moves that don't make sense - it "don't care."
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Tuesday, November 12, 2013
Gold and Silver Diamonds..Half Way There ! / Commodities / Gold and Silver 2013
By: Rambus_Chartology
In this Weekend Report I would like to take a fresh look at the precious metals complex again as things are still evolving in this area. I want to look at the GDX as our proxy for the rest of the PM stock indexes as it trades with the most volume and probably gives us a better feel for where the big caps are headed. As you know we’ve looked at several different possibilities for our recent consolidation zone that are still valid as consolidation patterns. At the end of some if these more complex trading ranges one can end up with a lot of trendlines that can make things a little confusing at times. With that said lets strip away all the noise and see what is actually there from a Chartology perspective.
Monday, November 11, 2013
Three Reasons Why Gold's Best Days Are Ahead / Commodities / Gold and Silver 2013
By: The_Gold_Report
It may be hard to find someone as enthusiastic about precious metals mining as Sean Brodrick. A natural resource strategist with the Baltimore-based Oxford Club, an independent financial organization, Brodrick isn't only filling his own portfolio with gold miners, he's launching two new newsletters to research and vet resource stocks. While Brodrick might be putting his money where his mouth is, it's not without solid reasoning and deep research. In this interview with The Gold Report, Brodrick discusses the projects he's visited, the management he's met and the companies that are getting his attention.
Monday, November 11, 2013
Time to Rethink Your Gold Investments? / Commodities / Gold and Silver 2013
By: DailyGainsLetter
Mohammad Zulfiqar writes: Is it time to rethink your gold investments? This question is being asked by those who have held on to their investments as the prices of the precious metal have come down significantly. It wasn’t too long ago when gold bullion prices soared beyond $1,900 an ounce; this year, they are facing scrutiny. Gold bullion prices witnessed plunges in April and June, and now sit close to $1,300—down more than 31% from their peak.
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Monday, November 11, 2013
How to "Democratize" Gold... and Give the Government a Black Eye / Commodities / Gold and Silver 2013
By: Money_Morning
Peter Krauth writes: We all know that, so long as the Fed keeps the printing presses on, the risk of a worldwide currency crisis gets even higher.
Gold, of course, is the timeless hedge here - for all the reasons you and I know.
But are we truly prepared for a currency crisis?
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Sunday, November 10, 2013
Silver Price Technical Perspective / Commodities / Gold and Silver 2013
By: Michael_Noonan
All people in the futures markets are there to make money, [hedgers excepted], or they would not subject themselves so unnecessarily to the risks. Even buyers of the physical, Stackers, want to get as low a price as they can. More people are fundamentally inclined than are technically driven. As a consequence, they like to read articles that provide a degree of psychological comfort in support of their own view of the market.
With the onslaught of bullish news/facts/figures about silver over the past year, one need only look at where the price of silver is and ask, "How is that bullish information working out for you?" This applies less to buyers of the physical, but even they need an occasional reminder that even though price has declined, their end game is still in process.
Saturday, November 09, 2013
Gold And Silver – Cognitive Disconnect Between Physical And Paper / Commodities / Gold and Silver 2013
By: Michael_Noonan
When one understands the widely pervasive but narrowly understood phenomenon of cognitive dissonance that permeates most of the Western world, it is not so difficult to put into context the disparity between demand for physical gold and silver and supply for the faux paper market. There is a growing sense for many that everything in the financial world is out of line, and way out of line for many others.
Saturday, November 09, 2013
Copper Demand Catch Up / Commodities / Copper
By: Richard_Mills
Until roughly 12,000 years ago - at least 90 percent of our history - we humans eked out a living by hunting and gathering. Our hunter-gatherer ancestors were replaced by farmers and herders who crowded into villages following the invention of agriculture.
Over the last 200 years a major resettlement pattern has emerged:
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Friday, November 08, 2013
Gold Futures Buying Returns / Commodities / Gold and Silver 2013
By: Zeal_LLC
Heavy and relentless selling by American futures speculators has been one of the primary drivers of gold’s horrendous year. These traders abandoned gold on the long side while piling in on the short side, unleashing withering selling pressure. But just in recent weeks, these speculators have started buying gold-futures contracts again on the long side. This critical and long-awaited reversal is very bullish for gold.
Futures speculators have long been at odds with gold investors. With gold futures’ inherent extreme leverage and expiration dates, speculators must maintain a very-short-term perspective in order to survive. Their whole worldview is based on technicals and sentiment, with trades lasting hours, days, or maybe weeks on the outside. Gold’s supply-and-demand fundamentals are largely irrelevant at this short scale.
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Friday, November 08, 2013
U.S. Non-Farm Data Sinks Gold, Bond Prices Set for Fed Tapering / Commodities / Gold and Silver 2013
By: Adrian_Ash
The PRICE of GOLD slumped $20 per ounce in 10 minutes Friday lunchtime in London, as the Dollar rose after much stronger than expected US jobs data.
Non-farm payrolls added 204,000 jobs net in October, the Bureau for Labor Statistics said, beating analysts' lowest prediction in a year of 125,000.
Friday, November 08, 2013
Stockholm Syndrome and the Precious Metals Price Discovery / Commodities / Gold and Silver 2013
By: Dr_Jeff_Lewis
The level of fraud in the financial system with utter lack of prosecution or accountability, combined with the ongoing love affair between the largest offenders and collective mainstream, results in financial media being a victim of the so-called Stockholm syndrome.Read full article... Read full article...
Friday, November 08, 2013
Gold and Silver Price Manipulation from the Top Down / Commodities / Gold and Silver 2013
By: Dr_Jeff_Lewis
The manipulation of gold prices, along with practically every other asset class, has perfectly transparent legal precedent. The precious metals political hot potato taboo has been strong enough to make it almost impossible for the mainstream to understand. And while it is perfectly plausible and even celebrated by the practitioners, the greatest threats to economic stability (LIBOR, bonds and interest rates, equities, electricity) are openly discussed facts. Obviously, history has demonstrated that these great unnatural “tinkerings” always end badly.
Friday, November 08, 2013
Who Needs Gold Really? / Commodities / Gold and Silver 2013
By: Adrian_Ash
Four reasons to waste your time with the deeply historic, deeply human value ascribed to gold...
People love to debate, but sadly sometimes it crosses a line and turns argumentative. That's what is happening right now with the debate over gold.
There have been several high-profile articles, most recently in the Wall Street Journal, saying you should eliminate gold as a worthwhile part of your portfolio. Primarily because of this year's lower price.
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Thursday, November 07, 2013
Gold Solution to The Biggest Fear in Retirement / Commodities / Gold and Silver 2013
By: Jeff_Clark
An interview with Dennis Miller of Miller's Money Forever, by Jeff Clark
We get a lot of questions from readers about what role precious metals should play in retirement planning, so we figured, who better to ask than our own Dennis Miller, editor of Miller's Money Forever. In the following interview, Dennis talks about how to categorize investments, why he likes Roth conversions, the greatest danger many seniors will face from Obamacare—and how he recommends protecting against it.
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Thursday, November 07, 2013
ECB Surprise Interest Rate Cut & US Growth Whip Soporofic Gold Market / Commodities / Gold and Silver 2013
By: Adrian_Ash
WHOLESALE GOLD turned suddenly volatile lunchtime Thursday in London after the European Central Bank surprised analysts by cutting its key interest rate to a new record low of 0.25%.
The Euro currency sank to an 8-week low vs. the Dollar, while European stock markets turned higher.
Thursday, November 07, 2013
Gold Price Forecast to Fall to $1180 / Commodities / Gold and Silver 2013
By: Gregor_Horvat
GOLD reversed sharply to the downside at the start of September, through the rising trend line of a corrective channel. As we know that's an important signal for a change in trend, which means that bearish price action is now back in view that could accelerate to the downside in the next few weeks if we consider possibly completed flat correction in wave 2. A fall and daily close beneath 1251 is needed for a wave 3 down back to 1180.