HUI

A variety of factors are lining up that lead us to believe we are on the cusp of a major move higher in the gold stocks. We feel we have been saying this for a while but the reality is we are moving closer and closer to that moment. The fundamentals couldn’t be more obvious … Continue reading

The number, market cap and currencies of the constituents of the HUI, XAU, GDX, XGD and CDNX indices differ considerably from each other and, as such, each index presents a different picture of what is really happening in the precious metals marketplace. This article analyzes the make-up of each index to reveal the biases of … Continue reading

May was the worst month for the S&P 500 since August 2010, but the percentage loss for the month only ended up being about 1.5%.  The four day rally at the end of May, including the big up day on Tuesday, served to soften some of the damage done in May.  But the market … Continue reading

At the start of the year we wrote about what we could expect from the gold stocks and juniors over the first half of the year. All of these markets experienced significant multi-year breakouts in late 2010. This year called for a retest of those breakouts before the next advance would begin. We believed that … Continue reading

Silver has been red hot lately and the silver shares have joined in the fun. Yet, we haven’t seen a corresponding breakout in Gold or in the gold shares (as evidenced by GDXJ and GDX). In the chart below we show SIL (large silver stocks), Silver, Gold, GDXJ (gold juniors) and GDX (large cap golds). … Continue reading

The gold bull is now on the verge of launching the most spectacular up leg of this 10 year bull market. This spring we should see the final parabolic rally of the massive C-wave advance that began in April `09 with a test of the 1980 high at $860. First off let me explain gold’s … Continue reading

Seems like everyone has now jumped back on the energy band wagon.To be precise energy, solar’s, uranium and rare earths. I hear it constantly in the media. However if something has gone up long enough and far enough to garner the attention of the media it’s usually closer to a top than a bottom. For … Continue reading

Gold begins a new week up a touch from where it ended last week. The spot price as we write is $1,348. Silver is off a few pennies, to $27.45.

We appear to be at the 3rd wave juncture where the large cap producer gold and silver stocks and intermediate precious metals producer/developer stocks tend to start to move much better….

  This essay is based on the Premium Update posted on November 19th, 2010 A recently published paper that studied the stimulus efforts in 44 countries showed some interesting findings. Ethan Ilzetzki of the London School of Economics and Enrique G. Mendoza and Carlos A. Vegh of the University of Maryland argued in their National … Continue reading

Excerpted from the November 7th edition of Notes From the Rabbit Hole: Precious Metals – Wild Man, Stodgy Old Man & 3 Snowmen Let’s begin with a weekly view of the wild man… silver. I am going to tweak the target to 31.50 from the previously noted 33. Before this target is reached, one can … Continue reading

China is the world’s largest producer of gold, but it has plenty of other precious metals and rare minerals as well…..