The best performing metal this week was palladium, up 4.41 percent. Central banks continue to stock up on gold – led by Russia, the world’s top buyer for seven consecutive years. Russia’s central bank quadrupled its gold holdings in the last decade and has...

One argument for last week’s extraordinary plunge in bond prices, which I explored as something that might happen this time of year in one of my earlier Premium Posts, was that bond prices could get crushed by the supersized US treasury auctions planned for...

This week ended with the S&P500, Dow Industrials and Nasdaq stalling near recent highs.  From a technical perspective, both Thursday and Friday setup small range price bars (Doji candles or small Spinning Top type bars) after the upside price move on Wednesday...

The long-term signal on the broad market is up. However, the current investing model favors bonds, therefore, investors should continue to overweigh with long bonds or bond ETFs for safety.

Metals investors are anxiously awaiting the market’s reaction to next week’s Fed meeting. We may see players in the futures markets move to smash gold and silver prices down to lower support zones in the trading around the Fed’s decision.

I cannot profess to tell others how to effectively manage their accounts because I am a lowly participant who is learning all the time. The truth is that 2019’s learning is much different than 2018’s learning was, which was different than 2016, 2011, 2008/2009 and...

The Energy Sector ETF has been on fire recently with big price trends.  We called a bottom/buy trigger in ERY in early July that resulted in a nearly +20% rally.  Then, on August 29th, we called for ERY to rotate lower, targeting the $46 to $47 level – setting up...

Yesterday’s session gave us a resolute follow-up to Tuesday’s reversal. Price sliding like there is no tomorrow, the bears keep pushing even lower today. Not a bit lower, but very much so lower. As black gold is trading at around $54.20 as we speak, is it time to...

For a number of years, you have been insisting that silver would experience dramatic price gains. Any change in your thinking these days?

Interest rates on the Ten-Year Note still have a long way to fall if they are going to achieve the 0.73% target shown in the chart (see inset).  Although it is mildly bullish that they have bounced from well above the 1.30% Hidden Pivot target given here earlier,...

It seemed the markets wanted to make a point to alert us that volatility may be here to stay very early in trading this week.  After a fairly flat overnight session with very little price volatility, the markets opened up to a moderately large price rotation (first...

One of the best examples of Wall Street’s propaganda machine at work is its willingness to dismiss recessionary signals. The inverted yield curve is a perfect example. Case in point, look at the story that was put out on Market Watch dated November 27th 2006—exactly...

Bitcoin has been consolidating for more than two and a half months now. Generally, the set-up is still bullish while the overbought situation has been neutralized. A move out of the triangle is coming closer. Even though lower prices might be coming first the...

Silver reacted back sharply last Thursday and Friday after a parabolic blow-off top. This was not a final top, but it does indicate that silver needs to take a rest and consolidate / react back, probably for at least several weeks.

Silver is on a major BUY signal. SLV is on short-term buy signal. Speculation may have peaked this week.