Jordan Roy-Byrne CMT, MFTA

C/O of GATA, here are some of Thomas Kaplan’s thoughts on Gold. Pay special attention to the bold: Even today, as the gold rally has reached the 10-year mark (following a 20-year bear market), the metal represents a mere 0.6 per cent of total global financial assets (stocks, bonds and cash). This is near the … Continue reading

At the end of December we posted a commentary titled “Three Things that could Halt Gold’s Run.” We theorized that strength in conventional markets pressures Gold. When stocks perform well, mainstream gurus and stock jocks can ignore Gold. Here is a snippet of our comment: Currently, stocks are performing well as are commodities led by … Continue reading

Jason Burack joins us to put the recent volatility in perspective. Jason Burack is an Investor, Entrepreneur, Financial Historian, Austrian School Economist, and Contrarian. Jason co-founded the startup investor education and financial education company Wall St for Main St, LLC, to try to help the people of Main Street by teaching them the knowledge, skills, … Continue reading

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The bull market in Gold is in its 12th year (globally it began in 1999) but has yet to exhibit any “bubble-like” conditions. In fact, we still see many people referring to this bull market as “the Gold trade,” as if its an aberration that needs to be reversed or corrected. That aside, we know … Continue reading

Gold is stuck between a bottom of $1310 and resistance at $1350. It has tested $1350 six of the past seven trading days. Should it breakthrough then we’d turn our focus to $1380 as the next key resistance. Silver is performing better. It held $26.50 last week (clear support dating back to November) and has … Continue reading

Standard & Poors cut Japan’s debt rating while Moody’s warned that the USA’s triple-A rating was at risk. The IMF had harsh words for both nations. The report is from Canada.com: “In advanced economies where fiscal sustainability has not been a market concern, credible plans going well beyond 2011 need to be put in place … Continue reading

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….

Dave Skarica joined me to discuss Gold and the gold stocks and the possibility of a bottom in the coming days. This was recorded Monday evening. David Skarica is the founder and Editor of the newsletter Addicted to Profits and is the editor of a Gold service published by Newsmax. Skarica entered the financial markets … Continue reading

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 sentiment will naturally become less bullish. In this case, sentiment has weakened considerably yet Gold is … Continue reading