Commentaries

The following is from the ShortSideofLong Blog: I have to admit, I love the “Safety Crowd.” In case you don’t know what that means, it’s a term I coined for those who interpret every single set of news as bearish, regardless of it being inflationary or deflationary. This group of investors is also known as … Continue reading

Gold this morning is plunging by the most since December 2008. For those seeking the reason for the sell off, it once again appears that the market is about 24 hours late in processing news that has been out for over a day. One of the main catalysts for today’s gold price is the … Continue reading

8/20/2011 GLD – on buy signal. SLV – buy signal this week. GDX – on buy signal. XGD.TO – on buy signal. CEF – buy signal this week. Summary Long term – on major buy signal. Short term – on buy signals. So far we have no set ups to re-enter this market and we … Continue reading

The Gold and Silver business is one that naturally involves consolidation. The industry product is the same and the business is such that mergers and acquisitions are commonplace. As many readers know, the secular bear market of the 1980s and 1990s had an obvious impact on the exploration side of the business. Larger mining companies … Continue reading

We are marking a dubious 40-year anniversary this week. It was on August 15, 1971 that President Richard Nixon unilaterally “closed the gold window,” severing the dollar’s ties to gold forever, possibly one of the most significant policy decisions in modern economic history.

Uncertainty and fear are the mother’s milk of the metal’s market. Our pundits, politicians and professors have given us plenty of reasons to question whether these supposed savants are steering with a working compass.

In our most recent commentary we wrote about the relative strength in the gold equities. Gold equities have not only bucked the downtrend in the equity markets but in relative terms are breaking to new highs against equity indices. In the chart below we plot precious metals prices, GDX versus the Morgan Stanley World Index … Continue reading

GDX declined  by -0.10% while GDXJ declined by -3.29% and SIL  declined by -3.71%   Here are today’s best  performing Gold stocks:         Here are today’s worst  performing Gold stocks: Here are today’s best  performing Silver stocks:     Here are today’s worst  performing Silver stocks:    

The past few weeks traders and investors have been completely spooked from the surge of negative news and collapsing stock prices.

We have written many articles over the past couple of months whereby we compared historical price movements with current developments. To show you a couple of them: *Gold Headed To $5,000 per ounce? *Silver 2006 vs Silver Today, Does It Look Familiar? *USD-JPY: Let The Crash Begin To make the comparisons easier, I developed an … Continue reading