When you’re considering investing in precious metals, you are confronted with many options. Silver or gold? Bars or coins? And what in the world is an ETF?Understanding the differences between an ETF and physical gold and silver is an important first step in the journey to precious metals investing.ETF is an acronym for “Exchange Traded Fund.” In simplest terms, an ETF represents...Read More
GDXJ declined once again yesterday,but the situation in silver juniors is even worse!Silver Juniors inTroubleYes, it is possible for a market to bein an even worse position than gold junior mining stocks – that’s the case withsilver juniors.To be precise, the GDXJ aims to beexposed to about 80% gold juniors and 20% of silver juniors, but the SILJ ETFaims to be exposed to just silver mi...Read More
I haven't written much about gold in the recent past — since the failed breakout attempt early in December — simply because I haven't known what to make of it, and that indecisiveness has been reflected in the market itself, where we have seen gold stuck in a fairly narrow trading range, but now things are starting to become a lot clearer both fundamentally and technically, and as we w...Read More
The situation in gold and gold stocksis not stagnant. Something shifted. And the implications are not minor.A Moment of RealizationIn 1993, Aerosmith released the songcalled “Amazing”. I really enjoyed it when it came out and some of the lyricsstuck in my mind. When I was reviewing the charts to prepare today’s analysis,I recalled a part of that song. I wasn’t sure why, as...Read More
Gold price rallied this week, and thisgot many heads turning. Rightfully so?Let’s check the details and see whatreally happened.Having said that, let’s take a look atgold’s rally. Gold moved above its April 2023 high.Again.HistoricalPatterns: A Look BackThis is the fourth time that ithappened if we don’t count the tiny early-January attempts.All those moves have been invali...Read More
The combination of supports and acandlestick formation encouraged the bulls to fight.How high could stock go?Last week turned out to be a breakthroughfor the bulls. They managed to maintain important support, which attractedbuyers to the trading floor and resulted in further positive technical changes.How high can the bulls climb in the following days? You will find the answer tothis question in t...Read More
Silver is underpriced.In other words, silver is on sale.The current gold-to-silver ratio reveals this.This ratio tells you how many ounces of silver it takes to buy one ounce of gold. Or to put it another way, the gold:silver ratio tells you the price of gold in silver. In general, the ratio tends to narrow as a precious metals bull market unfolds.In other words, silver outperforms gold.The opposi...Read More
Thanks to the last week’s declines,natural gas lost 32% and approached the support area. What are theimplications?Major Declinein Natural Gas PricesLast week, natural gas recorded itsbiggest decline in months. Could this have been predicted? What technicalfactors encouraged the bears to attack? What changes did this movement leavebehind on the chart? You will find answers to these questions...Read More
Which countries have the most gold?Central banks around the world have aggressively added gold to their reserves over the last several years.In 2022, central bank gold buying came in at 1,136 tons. It was the highest level of net purchases on record dating back to 1950, including since the suspension of dollar convertibility into gold in 1971. It was the 13th straight year of net central bank gold...Read More
Gold appears to have built solid support above $2,000 an ounce, but momentum to move higher in the short term has eased with uncertainty about the timing of Federal Reserve rate cuts.But short-term sentiment aside, there are plenty of reasons to remain bullish on the yellow metal.The Fed appeared to surrender to inflation at its December meeting. While the central bank held rates steady, it signal...Read More
With Bitcoin making the news last week when the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) finally approved exchange traded funds, it’s a good time to review the topic again.Bitcoin still offers the potential to serve as a form of honest money and to end-run the central bankers and politicians who have abused the fiat system so badly. Yet some proponents still market the crypto asset as &ldqu...Read More
Gold price has been falling in today’spre-market trading, but… Given the recent (HUGE!) weekly reversal, does itreally surprise anyone?The Historical ContextWell, it might surprise those thateasily forget what happened in the previous weeks and focus on just theday-to-day price swings, but the truth is that the context provided by previousweeks, months, and years (and the performance...Read More
While the yellow metal hit a newrecord high, the silver price remains below its post-pandemic peak. Recession RisksLoom Over SilverWhile gold has dominated the headlines recently,silver and mining stocks have been material underperformers. And with thelatter better barometers of investors’ enthusiasm, their relative weaknessshould concern the permabulls. Likewise, with w...Read More
While looser monetary policy may seembullish in the short term, the medium-term ramifications could upend the yellowmetal.Recession PessimismAheadThe ‘bad news is good news’ tradecontinues to dominate the financial markets, as weaker economic data isperceived as bullish for risk assets. In a nutshell: if the Fed pivots and endsQT, all of investors’ problems will disappear. Howeve...Read More
U.S. equity index futures were lower this morning. S&P 500 futures were down 15 points at 8:30 AM EDT.General Motors added $0.54 to $48.01 after announcing a $6 billion share buyback program.Eli Lilly advanced $13.44 to $878.45 after its Alzheimer drug received backing from FDA advisors. Target Hospitality dropped $2.97 to $7.53 after the U.S. government announced its intention to terminate it...Read More
The paint isn't even dry on the freshly-split NVIDIA shares and the financial media is already crowning it as the next big addition to the Dow.It's all just speculation at this point. But if NVDA keeps pace with its historic run, it would certainly be a welcome addition to the industrials. After all, NVDA just casually added another trillion bucks to its market cap as it stacks up a gain of nearly...Read More
We remain besieged by responses to our D-Day coverage.Certain readers nearly chain us Mr. Benedict Arnold. Reader B.H. for example.From whom:I find the comments about D-Day very disturbing. There was no need to disrespect D-Day on that day. Whatever your views on D-Day they could have been discussed at any time than on that day. You do all Americans a disservice when you have to dig into every a...Read More