Bloomberg: Gold Traders most Bullish Since 2004

According to Bloomberg, Gold traders are the most bullish they’ve been since 2004. The survey shows 21 of 22 respondents expecting Gold to rise this week. Gold is up 26% year to date and has benefited from the Euro...

Gold and Silver Speculators Have Left the Building

Gold and Silver Speculators Have Left the Building by Jordan Roy-Byrne We use a combination of sentiment analysis and technical analysis in market timing which often gets a bad name courtesy of mainstream retail nonsense. The dumb money tries...

Canadian Wealth Managers Less Bullish on Gold

This comes from Reuters: The fading allure of bullion and gold stocks is tied to rising prospects for the global economy, said Howard Atkinson, the president of BetaPro Management Inc, which puts out a quarterly survey on adviser sentiment....

BCA Research on Gold Bull Market

Back to gold bullion, BCA Research argues that it is hard to make the case that gold is currently "a crowded trade". Many institutional and retail investors agree with the gold bull case but....

Spec Money Exits Gold & Silver but Remains Heavily Long Other Markets

There are many ways to measure market sentiment. We use surveys, put-call ratios, fund flows data and for commodities especially, the commitment of traders reports (COT). Lately, we’ve noted the improving sentiment picture for Gold. As a market weakens...

GTU Premium

This chart comes from Babak at TradersNarrative: The premium in GTU has dipped into the red for the first time since October 2010 and prior to that, late 2008. This is positive as it shows optimism is now quite...

Bullish Sentiment in Gold Abates

An upward sloping consolidation in Gold that began in October has, despite a lack of any real losses, been enough to improve various sentiment indicators. Mark Hulbert of MarketWatch gives an update on his Gold sentiment indicator: Consider the...

UBS Poll of Central Banks & Sovereign Wealth Funds…

This nugget comes from Peter Spina and GoldForecaster.com UBS, in its annual poll of central bank and sovereign wealth funds found nearly a quarter of central banks believed gold would become the most important reserve asset in the next...

Great Sentiment Analysis from Steve Saville…

From Gold-Seek.com: These days it is popular and conventional to be a contrarian. It seems that almost everyone tries to figure out what everyone else is thinking/doing so that they can then do the opposite. Right now, for example,...

HGNSI at 9.2%

The Hulbert Gold Newsletter Sentiment Index (HGNSI) has gone more bearish than it was last week when Mark Hulbert noted it as being very bullish (on a contrarian basis) on a decline to 23.5%. According to information forwarded by...