Investing vs. Speculating in Gold and Silver Stocks

Dec 20, 2011

One thing that is intriguing about the precious metals sector is the vast composition of the companies in the sector. The entire equity sector can be divided in so many forms and ways. We can divide the gold and...

Why Gold Stocks Have Underperformed and What Lies Ahead

Dec 06, 2011

Gold is higher by 20% this year but the large cap gold stocks (GDX) are down 6% while the junior gold stocks (ETF) are down 25%. With Gold higher by 20%, we’d normally expect the gold stocks to be...

Major Catalysts Ahead to Trigger Next Breakout in Gold Market

Nov 22, 2011

In bull markets, corrections and consolidations are needed to periodically cleanse the market of extreme optimism and an overbought condition....

Gold Producers Lead while Developers and Explorers Lag

Nov 14, 2011

Back in August we wrote a piece titled: The Catalyst for Consolidation in the Gold Sector. We noticed that the large cap producers had begun to outperform the rest of the sector which consists of small producers, developers and...

Gold Consolidates Gains while Gold Equities Outperform

Sep 08, 2011

In only two months Gold surged from $1500 to $1900/oz. Over the past few weeks Gold has remained range bound from $1750-$1900. The longer Gold holds this range then the more optimistic we can be. That $400 move was...

Gold Stocks Inch Closer to Major Breakout

Aug 28, 2011

In recent commentaries we’ve discussed the relative strength of the gold stocks and in particular the relative strength of the large miners. This relative strength comes at a time when the sector is nearing a potentially historic breakout. We’ve...

Relative Strength of Gold Stocks Signals the Future

Aug 15, 2011

Savvy and experienced market technicans and traders will laud the concept and importance of relative strength. Relative strength analysis can be used on any time frame. On large time frames it can tell us which sectors could be future...

Gold & Silver Stock Bottom Likely Days Away

Jun 17, 2011

Gold and Silver equities have led the markets lower and have underperformed the metals significantly this year. For the past month or so Gold has firmed and Bonds have moved higher as most asset classes have declined. Unfortunately mining...

Swing And A Miss To Start June

Jun 02, 2011

  May was the worst month for the S&P 500 since August 2010, but the percentage loss for the month only ended up being about 1.5%.  The four day rally at the end of May, including the big up...

Gold and Silver Shares Retest of 2010 Breakout Almost Complete

May 31, 2011

At the start of the year we wrote about what we could expect from the gold stocks and juniors over the first half of the year. All of these markets experienced significant multi-year breakouts in late 2010. This year...