Sentiment

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 25 years. At its annual seminar for sovereign institutions, UBS surveyed more than 80 central bank … Continue reading

As per Mark Hulbert’s HGNSI, Gold market timers are now more short-term bullish. I base these comments on current gold market sentiment, as indicated by the average recommended gold market exposure among a subset of short-term gold market timers tracked by the Hulbert Financial Digest (as measured by the Hulbert Gold Newsletter Sentiment Index, or … Continue reading

Ted Butler on King World News…

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, it seems that almost everyone thinks that almost everyone else is bullish on gold, and, therefore, … Continue reading

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 subscriber Larry (not a rookie is all I’ll say) the HGNSI is now registering 9.2%! Do … Continue reading

By one historically accurate contrary sentiment metric, the gold market is poised to stage a surprising move higher soon.  From the Hulbert Gold Sentiment Newsletter Index: over the three decades I’ve been tracking investment newsletters, the gold market has — on average — adhered to the contrarian pattern. That is, bullion has turned in far … Continue reading

A week after the EUR posted the biggest short covering rally in history, expunging every single weak hand after a move wiped out 44% of all net shorts, the bearish speculative bets on the EUR are once again rising, according to just released CFTC Commitment of Traders data. After dropping from net -111,945 to just … Continue reading

Focus on the real sentiment indicators…

We contrarians cringe when sentiment gets too frothy, gold is pumped on CNBC and a respectable titan of the conventional investment world speaks of gold as an “asset class”. We cringe, but also realize that at some point in the process, the public is gonna go all-in. At least that’s the script that is usually … Continue reading

Commentary: Contrarian analysis remains upbeat about gold’s prospects…