Ole Hansen10 hours ago (Nov 25, 2019 2:32 PM GMT)The below summary highlights futures positions and changes made by hedge funds across 24 key commodity futures up until last Tuesday, November 19. The report covered a week where the prospect for a “phase one” U.S.-China trade deal received a knock from the Senate vote on Hong Kong. While stocks climbed bonds saw 10-year yields tumble...Read More
Bob Moriarty ArchivesNov 26, 2019Investors spend a lot of time pondering both Technical Analysis and fundamentals to determine entry and exit points for investing. Perhaps they would make more money studying human behavior. Investing is not as difficult as the Gurus and Expert try to make it; it is no more complex than buying cheap and selling dear.Every year human behavior gives us a month long s...Read More
Stewart Thomsonemail: stewart@gracelandupdates.comemail: stewart@gracelandjuniors.comemail:admin@guswinger.comNov 26, 2019With India’s titanic physical market now switching from a price discount to a premium, the door is open for the end of gold’s healthy and graceful price reaction.Pleaseclick here now.Double-click to enlarge this daily chart.A beautiful bull wedge pattern has formed....Read More
European central banks are slowly preparing for plan B: gold.Deutsche Bundesbank [CC BY-NC-ND 2.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/2.0/)]Written by Jan Nieuwenhuijs, formerly known as Koos Jansen.It was long believed in the gold space that Western central banks are against gold, but things have changed, for quite some years now. Instead of discouraging people from buying gold, or...Read More
Daniel R. AmermanA new era began for us all in September and October of 2019, with the introduction of a new element that is likely to become one of the dominant investment market influences in the 2020s.What is shown in the orange area of the graph above is something brand new. When we understand why the Federal Reserve abruptly reversed course, created $280 billion in new money in two months a...Read More
By: David Chapman, Chief Strategist, Enriched Investing Inc. "History is a collection of agreed upon lies." Voltaire, French philosopher, writer, historian, advocate of free speech; 1694-1778 "Experience is helpful, but it is judgement that matters." General Colin Powell, Chairman Joint Chiefs 1989-1993, Secretary of State 2001-2005; b. 1937 "I'm very big on having clarified principles. I don...Read More
Keith Weiner, Monetary MetalsPhysics students study mechanical systems in which pulleys are massless and frictionless. Economics students study monetary systems in which rising prices are everywhere and always caused by rising quantity of currency. There is a similarity between this pair of assumptions. Both are facile. They oversimplify reality, and if one is not careful they can lead to spect...Read More
By Avi Gilburt, ElliottWaveTraderWith the latest news of Louis Bacon's closing down his hedge funds, we are seeing further evidence of the difficulties hedge funds have been having during recent years.But, if you think about the counter-intuitive nature of this trend, it is actually quite interesting. Let me take a step back and walk you through what I am thinking.For those that follow the mar...Read More
By: Ira EpsteinGold being weighed on by the general markets. The 100-d.ma. at $1,400 area, $1,445 Bollinger band support area -- oversold market with supports a bit below. Gold is a whipsaw market..Read More
If gold and silver fall today, they will crash. Inverse correlation between gold and crude oil will be there. I will prefer to call the current softer prices in gold and silver as just a correction and not even a short term bearish trend. Trend on or after second week of December will be the key not just for bullion but for currencies as well. Central banks from Europe have started increasing th...Read More
Tulsi Gabbard is a 2020 Presidential Candidate of the Democratic Party and is currently serving as the U.S. Representative for Hawaii's 2nd congressional district since 2013.Jocko Willink is a decorated retired Navy SEAL officer, author of the book Extreme Ownership: How U.S. Navy SEALs Lead and Win, and co-founder of Echelon Front, where he is a leadership instructor, speaker, and executive coach...Read More
Last piece of fake good news? China trade deal coming? Not so fast. Phase 1 is the easy part. Bloomberg enters the presidential fray. Is he for real? Deval who? They've lost faith in Biden and they're completely panic-stricken. Neither of these candidates has a prayer. They've jumped in very late and really can't be taken as serious candidates. The idea of a Bernie candidacy has smoked them out. N...Read More
A lot of dysfunctions within America's economy can be traced back to the Federal Reserve's heavy hand in setting interest rates and tweaking the money supply. Danielle Dimartino Booth, CEO of Quill Intelligence and former advisor to the Dallas Fed, believes the US central bank lost its way in the 1970s when Congress tasked it with ensuring both maximum employment and price stability. Instead, she...Read More
Peter feels that a slowdown is coming but that there won't be an official recession in 2020, perhaps 2021. The overall equity markets will likely be flat next year because of the Fed's actions in keeping up the markets.There was a lot of physical off-take of gold and silver by North American investors between 2008 and 2011. The price of gold will need to head higher than $1550 to attract retail in...Read More
"We're in the final throes of a very important deal, I guess you could say one of the most important deals in trade ever. It's going very well but at the same time we want to see Continue...Read More
Federal prosecutors have reportedly opened a criminal investigation into whether pharmaceutical companies intentionally allowed opioid painkillers to flood communities.Continue...Read More
Dallas Fed President Robert Kaplan says fourth-quarter growth will be "weak" but he sees growth reaching about 2 percent in 2020.Continue...Read More
Every year human behavior gives us a month long sales event where investors dump shares just like the after Christmas sales rack at Macy's. Continue...Read More
"When the Armistice Line comes down not long from now, Korea is going to be the most interesting place in the world."Continue...Read More
Within the tested zone, results show two discrete areas of mineralization and extend the strike length. Benchmark Metals Inc. (BNCH:TSX.V; CYRTF:OTCQB) announced in a news release new drill results from the Amethyst Gold Breccia zone at its Lawyers project in British Columbia's Golden Horseshoe. In drill hole 19AGBDD007, two separate zones of mineralization were encountered. The upper zone demons...Read More