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The S&P 500 has rebounded about 100% in 100 weeks. What crisis? What new normal? The economy is recovering and happy times are back again. Old normal is back. Stocks for the long run! Permabears be damned! The permabulls are back! Rates are low, core inflation is low, its Goldilocks time! US stocks are only … Continue reading

Last we checked, Silver was trading at $32.53/oz. It is higher by more than 2% today after its breakout yesterday. All is good and merry right? While Silver has surged in recent days and weeks, the silver stocks have lagged tremendously. In the chart below we show SLV and the SIL/SLV ratio. SIL is an … Continue reading

Why is Silver continuing to outperform Gold? The Silver/Gold ratio tends to lead or follow the stock market. Risk assets are outperforming. Silver is outperforming Gold as a risk asset. It is not outperforming for monetary reasons. That occurs when both Gold and Silver advance but Silver outperforms Gold. This is one of several reasons … 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

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