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Analysts and pundits provide various reasons for the bull market in Gold. This includes emerging market demand, low interest rates, money printing, central bank accumulation, central bank policies and falling gold production. These are all good reason but there is one reason which stands apart and will drive precious metals to amazing heights. It is … Continue reading

With little fanfare, the November budget deficit of $150.4 billion was reported, which happened to be the worst fiscal November in the history of the US, and just out of the top 10 of worst deficit months ever, including the traditionally weak seasonal months of December, April and September (indicatively, the worst deficit month was … Continue reading

In past commentaries, I’ve written about my favorite form of technical analysis. That is intermarket analysis. Intermarket analysis takes traditional technical analysis much further. Normally, we’d look at a market by itself. We’d look at its price action, potential patterns and its momentum. Intermarket analysis takes this a step further by comparing the market at … Continue reading

In the past week I’ve seen more than a few mentions of the potential head and shoulders pattern in Gold. A head and shoulders pattern occurs when a market forms three peaks and the middle peak is noticeably higher than the left and right peaks. However, that is not enough for the pattern to play … Continue reading

The Commitment of Traders report (COT) comes out every Friday. The data is as of Tuesday so there is a lag. The COT data provides important data about the construct of the market. It tells important information such as who is holding long positions (commercials or speculators) and the total open interest. The commercials are … Continue reading

GDXJ is the ETF for junior miners and in particular junior gold companies. This sector has been very strong in 2010 and has solidly outperformed its counterpart, GDX as well as Gold. GDXJ made a key breakout in September and continued to soar into early November. The market soared above our target of $39 and … Continue reading

Dave Skarica, who has a new book out, joined us about a week ago to discuss Gold, Silver, the Juniors and Oil/Gas at the end. You can also find Dave at AddictedtoProfits.net.

Gold and Silver are likely in a corrective state after fantastic gains in the late summer and early fall. Where might we expect some support? Take a look at the chart below which shows Gold at the top and Silver at the bottom.   Gold has lateral support at $1325. Trendline support will hit $1300 … Continue reading

By The Mogambo Guru 11/12/10 Tampa, Florida – There are a lot of intricacies in the Federal Reserve’s evil ways, especially as concerns creating $900 billion in the next six months in another round of quantitative easing, and one of them is explained by Daniel R. Amerman of DanielAmerman.com. He says, “There is something else … Continue reading

A great quote from William Osler typifies the evolution of our current monetary system. He said: “The philosophies of one age have become the absurdities of the next, and the foolishness of yesterday has become the wisdom of tomorrow.” Decades and centuries ago, no one would have done without a hard money standard. The founders … Continue reading

Silver has obviously had a very strong run. After breaking out past $19.50/oz, Silver has run all the way to nearly $27 with gains in eight of the past nine weeks. How much further can Silver run? We see some confluence of targets at $32. Note that back in 1980 there was barely any trading … Continue reading

When a market makes a strong vertical type move coming out of a consolidation or correction, odds are a bull flag might follow. A bull flag is essentially a small rectangle or triangle-like consolidation that seperates two very strong moves that tend to be equal in terms of size and duration. Note the chart below: … Continue reading