Ray Dalio, founder of Bridgewater Associates, joined CNBC's "Squawk Box" at the World Economic Forum in Davos on Tuesday to discuss what he's watching in the markets for 2020. When asked what investors should buy to protect themselves from the inevitable stock market volatility coming down the pike, Mr. Dalio made the following comments:"You can't jump into cash - cash is trash...because they're g...Read More

- Peter DegraafA good place to start is at the seasonal tendencies for gold. There are seasons when gold drops in price, simply due to a lack of interest on the part of investors, and there are times when there is a seasonal tendency for investors to flock into the gold market. This chart courtesy goldchartsrus.com shows January is historically the best month for owning gold and gold produ...Read More

By: Ira EpsteinGold monthly shows gold still up $37. Gold monthly shows upside breakout, Bollinger upper band around $1,600 and rising on the monthly charts, bullish. Weekly chart gold at highest close in years. Gold has broken out of this drifting pattern:Read More

Eric Sprott joins us from Antarctica and offers his assessment of the initial gold and silver trading action as we begin 2020.Read More

"INTERVIEW - Rick Rule of Sprott shared his thoughts on the lessons of the last decade and how to harness them for the future. #TSXV #mining #bullmarket #investing"Read full newsRead More

On Power Trading Radio, investors and traders across the nation are able to get live perspective on the market from experienced professional traders. The show is aimed at an audience that wants to improve its edge through active participation whether the market is moving up, down or sideways. In addition to stocks, topics will include foreign exchange, options, futures and wealth management.Read More

Gold miners' stocks blasted higher this past week, breaking out of their correction downtrend. Rapidly-improving psychology fueled such strong upside momentum that sector benchmarks are challenging months-old upleg highs. Most traders assume this is righteous, that gold stocks' next upleg is starting to accelerate. But key indicators argue the contrarian side, that this breakout surge is...Read More

Over the moderately quiet 2019 Christmas holiday season, while the US and global stock markets continue to push higher, precious metals and miners have begun to move dramatically higher as fear settles into the markets.  Our researchers believe this upside move in metals and miners represents a measured increase in investor concern related to early 2020 and the global economy.Our research tea...Read More

By: Ira EpsteinGold is bullish -- but the bullish crossover hasn't occurred yet, but I would not be surprised this occurs in early January. Longer-term traders are going to look at the gold chart favorably..https://www.iraepstein.com/Read More

Maurice Jackson of Proven and Probable interviews Andy Schectman of Miles Franklin Precious Metals Investments about the implications of monetary policies being implemented by central banks worldwide, and about the state of the U.S. economy. Maurice Jackson: Joining us for a conversation is Andy Schectman, the president of Miles Franklin Precious Metals Investments. Today we will address Basel II...Read More

Global gold prices are hitting a two-month high following this weekend's US strikes in Iraq and Syria. Meanwhile, China's Commerce Ministry said on Sunday it has "proactively dealt with" trade frictions with the US this year. How will the trade war play out for gold and the US dollar? CEO of Euro Pacific Capital Peter Schiff joins In Question to dive in.Peter Schiff is an internationally recognize...Read More

Gold is now a major bullmarket as evidenced by its strong breakout from a giant 6-year long base pattern in August. The larger trend is up. We had thought that it might react back closer to the breakout point before turning higher again, but it didn't, and started higher again in recent days over the Christmas period. This is a sign of greater strength.There is a broad array of fundamental reaso...Read More

StrengthsThe best performing metal this week was platinum, up 3.85 percent, with silver and palladium just trailing. Gold traders and analysts were overwhelmingly bullish on their outlook for the yellow metal in the weekly Bloomberg survey. Sentiment was bolstered as gold cracked back above $1,500 per ounce. Gold hit a seven-week high despite comments by President Trump that a trade deal signi...Read More

When it comes to precious metals, most of us think gold and silver. After all those two metals are the most common and almost everyone on the planet has heard of or seen both metals mostly because of jewelry and maybe old coins etc. But there is two other metals that are part of the precious metal family and those are palladium and platinum and it's palladium that we'll take a look at today.Pallad...Read More

If it isn't grown, it has to be mined. You've probably heard some variation of this saying. It is used by people concerned about the environmental effects of mineral depletion, as well as people bullish on mining stocks. Although these two groups have a very different emphasis when they speak it, they are both right - mining is big business. Almost every commercial product has elements th...Read More

1. The amount of debt in both China and the United States is horrifying and it continues to grow. 2. Debt growth is worshipped by millions of people who think it is a cure rather than a disease. 3. Please click here now. Until the trade war began, the Chinese government was pressuring the country's private sector to reduce debt.4. The government did stimulate modestly whe...Read More

By: Ira EpsteinGold has a bullish and negative bias -- what's next for gold this holiday week:Read More

TECHNICAL SCOOPCharts and commentary by David ChapmanChief Strategist, Enriched Investing Inc.Phone: 416-523-5454 Email: david@davidchapman.comdchapman@enrichedinvesting.comTwitter: @Davcha12December 23, 2019 "Gold is money. Everything else is credit." J.P. Morgan, American financier, banker, dominated corporate finance on Wall Street during the Gilded Age; 1837-1913 "Because gold is honest mo...Read More

Not only are gold fundamentals excellent, dollar fundamentals help...Read full newsRead More

StrengthsThe best performing metal this week was platinum, up 3.57 percent as money managers increased their bullish outlook and took their net long position to a 22-month high. Gold traders remained bullish on the price outlook for bullion even amid trade optimism early in the week, according to the weekly Bloomberg survey. Turkey's gold reserves rose $348 million from the previous week and a...Read More