Analysis Topic: Commodity Markets - Metals, Softs & Oils
The analysis published under this topic are as follows.Wednesday, June 10, 2015
Gold and Silver Trading Alert: Silver Price and Its Signals / Commodities / Gold and Silver 2015
Briefly: In our opinion, a speculative short position (full) in gold, silver and mining stocks is justified from the risk/reward point of view.
Silver caught the attention of many precious metals traders earlier this year when it outperformed gold in a quite sharp manner and broke above the declining long-term resistance line. Many investors and analysts were cheering and emphasizing silver breakout’s importance and silver’s leadership as something bullish for the precious metals market. We respectfully disagreed. It was the case years ago (!) that silver’s outperformance signaled higher prices for the entire precious metals sector, but it wasn’t the case in the recent history – in fact, exactly the opposite was the case. Several weeks ago we featured the following silver to gold ratio chart (charts courtesy by http://stockcharts.com):
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Tuesday, June 09, 2015
Have YOU Heard of the 30-Year Commodity Cycle? / Commodities / Commodities Trading
Learn about a curious phenomenon in commodity prices
Where are commodity prices headed? Get some answers from Elliott Wave International's Commodity Junctures editor, Jeffrey Kennedy -- and learn about the "30-year cycle."
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Tuesday, June 09, 2015
Silver Price Looks Set for Breakdown / Commodities / Gold and Silver 2015
A lot of folks are waxing lyrical about silver, about what a great oversold undervalued investment it is, that is Real Money and how it is leveraged to gold and thus even better etc etc. The only problems are that it happens to be stuck in the same grueling downtrend that has driven it lower and lower for 4 years, and the Commercials are heavily short. Given that the folks waxing lyrical are romantics, and that the Commercials are pragmatists who make money nearly all of the time, you ought to be able to figure from this which side of the equation you should be on. It is not that the romantics are necessarily wrong in their positive assertions regarding silver - their problem would appear to rest with the small matter of timing.
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Tuesday, June 09, 2015
Gold Price Breakdown Forecast Downtrend to $1000 / Commodities / Gold and Silver 2015
Although the longer-term bullish case for gold could scarcely be stronger, over the short to medium-term the picture continues weak, with it looking vulnerable to breaking down into another downleg to the $1000 area and perhaps lower. In the last update you may recall that there was some optimism expressed that it might perk up on the dollar topping out, but such has not proved to be the case - instead it has performed miserably and now looks set to drop more steeply to new lows.
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Tuesday, June 09, 2015
Gold - Surviving The Last Few Months Of The Bear Market / Commodities / Gold and Silver 2015
In my previous article yesterday I tried to stress the importance of getting to the sidelines before gold begins the final decline into its eight-year cycle low. Today I’m going to show you what I think is in store and why.
First off let me dispel any notion that this was a natural bear market in gold. On the contrary, this has been a manufactured bear market brought about by intense paper market manipulation by the bullion banks ever since Germany asked for their gold back. It’s been my theory for almost 2 years now that the bullion banks are trying to force the gold market as far down as possible in order to maximize the potential upside once the secular bull market resumes. It’s also been my feeling that the manipulation would continue until gold at least retraces back to the $1000-$1050 level, and we may, and probably will, get a panic overshoot for a few days below that level.
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Tuesday, June 09, 2015
Central Banks Predict Gold Market - But Not The Way You Think / Commodities / Gold and Silver 2015
By Bob Prechter, Elliott Wave International
Editor's note: This article was adapted from a new multimedia report, "The New Financial Theory that Could Make the Difference in Your Investing Success," from Elliott Wave International, the world's largest financial forecasting firm. Authored by Robert Prechter, the full report demonstrates the failures of the modern investing paradigm and suggests a radically new approach that makes the difference in your investing success. Click here to read and watch the full multimedia report -- it's free.
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Sunday, June 07, 2015
Gold Price Analysis Update / Commodities / Gold and Silver 2015
After Gold and Silver topped in 2011 many have been looking for a sustainable rally to trade, or exit long term positions. Yet the decline in the precious metals has been generally steady except for a few quick rallies here and there. We have also been looking for a Primary wave A low since last year as well. But each uptrend since then has been short lived or sold off substantially. Since the wave pattern on this four year decline has been quite complex we recently looked at Platinum to possibly get some clues about Gold.
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Sunday, June 07, 2015
Silver Longs Still Vulnerable / Commodities / Gold and Silver 2015
About a week ago, I wrote a short piece detailing the excessively lopsided long position in the silver market noting at that time, that anyone who has long needed to be paying very close attention to their positions. (see that article here: http://traderdan.com/?p=4972)
In going over this week's Commitments of Traders report, I see that some of that long position being held by the hedge funds has indeed been whittled down somewhat, but unless a lot more of them bailed out from Wednesday through Friday of this week, that position is still very large and still lopsided.
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Sunday, June 07, 2015
Gold and Silver Shaken, But Not Stirred - Credibility Trap / Commodities / Gold and Silver 2015
"This strange, weak obstinacy, this persistence in the wrong path of progress, grows weaker and worse, as do all such weak things. And by the time in which I write its moral attitude has taken on something of the sinister and even the horrible.
Our mistakes have become our secrets. Editors and journalists tear up with a guilty air all that reminds them of the party promises unfulfilled, or the party ideals reproaching them. It is true of our statesmen that socially in evidence they are intellectually in hiding. The society is heavy with unconfessed sins; its mind is sore and silent with painful subjects; it has a constipation of conscience.
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Sunday, June 07, 2015
Gold Surviving the Last Few Months of the Bear Market / Commodities / Gold and Silver 2015
As most of you probably know by now, it’s been my belief for about a year that gold’s bear market would not end until at least testing the previous C-wave top at $1050. Every D-wave correction in the secular bull has at least retraced to the previous C-wave top except one.
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Saturday, June 06, 2015
Gold And Silver - Too Many Are Still Getting It Wrong / Commodities / Gold and Silver 2015
Americans labor under the misguided belief that they have freedom, and by extension, freedom of choice. This simply is not true. Corporations are dictating more and more how Americans live, what to think, what to eat, and more. Google is a perfect example of what was once a superior search engine-turned-government-tool-for-propaganda. Searches have been sanitized to provide only that information the corporate federal government wants you to know, and no more.
It used to be the will of one in this country was protected against the majority. You can no longer find any references to this line of thinking when one Googles "rights for the will of one." There is no such reference but mostly talk about the importance of a majority rule in a democratic society to get people to believe is such a dysfunctional point of view. If you want to do any research on topics the government prefers you do not know, content results will be sanitized, and depending on how "anti-government" a search may be, many available responses can no longer be found but have been cleansed.
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Saturday, June 06, 2015
Gold and Silver Move Closer to Breakdown / Commodities / Gold and Silver 2015
Gold and Silver are going to close down for the third consecutive day and the third consecutive week. As we pen this on Friday, Gold bounced from $1162/oz and could close near $1170/oz while Silver traded below $16/oz and may close at $16/oz right on the dot. Both metals are now dangerously close to their final weekly supports and therefore one step closer to an important technical breakdown.
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Friday, June 05, 2015
Radical Gold GLD ETF Under Investment / Commodities / Gold and Silver 2015
Gold remains deeply out of favor thanks to global central banks’ extreme money printing. This fueled a global stock-market levitation that has temporarily short-circuited normal market cycles, leaving investors infatuated with stocks to the exclusion of prudent portfolio diversification. This has left them radically underinvested in gold, which sets the stage for massive mean-reversion buying when they inevitably return.
Portfolio diversification is an absolutely essential tool for investment risk management. This simple and powerful wisdom is ancient, as a three-millennia-old quote from the Israeli king Solomon reveals. He advised, “Invest in seven ventures, yes, in eight; you do not know what disaster may come upon the land.” Indeed history has proven countless times that putting all one’s eggs in one basket is foolish.
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Wednesday, June 03, 2015
Why Physical Precious Metals Are Safer than Mining Stocks / Commodities / Gold and Silver 2015
David Smith writes: When investors first become interested in the precious metals, they may be drawn to invest in mining stocks.
The allure of making several times your money on an exploration company that hits a big strike can be tempting. Yes, a gold-silver producer (or an exploration stock) can sport larger gains during a bull run than the price of the underlying metal itself. This is part of a trade-off, because mining operations face all sorts of unique risks.
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Wednesday, June 03, 2015
Interest Rates, Price Controls and Silver / Commodities / Gold and Silver 2015
Every day, we are bombarded with interest rate conjecture. When will they raise them? How can they?
The simplest answer is that they can’t. But why not? And who are they anyway?
They are the monetary authorities. They form the policy that shapes the politics.
What else can Central Banks do to stimulate the economy? They certainly couldn’t admit that they broke it to begin with.
Wednesday, June 03, 2015
Euro-zone Bail-Ins Coming - EU Gives Countries Two Months To Adopt Rules / Commodities / Credit Crisis 2015
- 11 countries face legal action if bail-in rules are not enacted within two months
- Bail-in legislation aims at removing state responsibility when banks collapse
- Rules place burden on creditors – among whom depositors are counted
- Austria abolished bank deposit guarantee in April
- “Bail-in regimes” coming globally
Wednesday, June 03, 2015
Gold and - JPM Saves the Golden Day on the Comex / Commodities / Gold and Silver 2015
We are certainly in an 'active' month now for gold.
As is shown in the delivery report below, 251,000 ounces of gold have been 'claimed' or stopped month-to-date.
Good new though on the supply front. someone changed the status of 177, 409 ounces of gold to registered, or 'for delivery' in the JPM warehouse, bringing the total available 547,860.
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Tuesday, June 02, 2015
Here's What the Next Gold Bull Market Will Look Like / Commodities / Gold and Silver 2015
We measured every bull cycle of gold stocks and found there have been eight distinct upcycles since 1975.
We also discovered something exciting: Only one was less than a double. (A second was 99.9%.)
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Tuesday, June 02, 2015
Why Oil’s Price Is Baffling Analysts (but Not Us) / Commodities / Crude Oil
MoneyMorning.com Dr. Kent Moors writes: It sure has been amusing to watch the oil instant experts trying to shove “square peg” explanations into “round hole” price moves this week.
For most of yesterday’s trading session, West Texas Intermediate (WTI) crude oil prices were declining about 1% after a huge 4.5% rise on Friday. Once again, the “experts” had instant prognostications, once again they signaled a familiar refrain – a strong dollar, oversupply – and once again they missed the boat.
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Tuesday, June 02, 2015
How To Profit From A Bursting Bond Bubble / Commodities / Resources Investing
Recent economic data do not show much strength, at least not in the U.S. The Q1 Gross National Product in the U.S. pointed to an economic contraction of -0,7%. It was the second consecutive year in which the economic activity declined quarter-on-quarter. That has not happened since the credit crisis of 2008. Chart courtesy: Marketwatch.
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