The stock market has been in this run-away move which usually ends in a crash or a mini-crash. All previous corrections have held the prior resistance zone (support).

The gold and silver futures markets were designed to increase volatility and discourage physical ownership of precious metals, as revealed in 1970s-era disclosures. The futures markets have also created opportunities for manipulation.

If you are still waiting on silver to bring you huge profits, your wait just got longer. Below is a chart (source) of SLV prices for the past week…

Stocks are breaking down! The S&P 500 index fell almost 1% on Friday and today it is poised to open 1.8% lower. Are we getting close to a local low?

China’s Evergrande has been in the news lately, but not always in an understandable way. The real estate developer is just too big and its financial arrangements too obscure to be easily grasped by people with a lot of other things on their plates. Plus, China has...

With silver down over $1 today, it has many wondering, is this the bottom? While the COMEX silver price still isn’t showing you yet, there are a lot of developments happening NOW, that are laying the conditions for the REAL silver price to rise.

Silver is now on a long-term SELL signal. Long-term – on SELL signal. Short term – on sell signals. We closed out all of our positions with good profits.

Our long term stocks/bond model remains in favor of stocks over bonds. Investors should overweigh their portfolios with stock/stock ETFs for maximum growth. We have closed out our positions in the energy sector with excellent profits, and will now wait for new set...

Back on June 21 we compared inflation with the fading CDNX/TSX Ratio using this chart (updated here). Nearly 3 months later, while inflation expectations look poised to turn back up TSX-V/TSX continues to robo-trend down.

Precious metals markets got dealt a technical blow after gold and silver sold off on Thursday. Stronger-than-expected economic reports boosted the U.S. Dollar Index, which in turn gave futures traders all the rationale they needed to pound longs with sell orders.

Stocks are going sideways since last Friday. Will they break higher and go back to the record high? Or the opposite? It still doesn’t look bullish.

When it comes to modern markets, risk assets and the now normalized yet twisted tango of fiscal and monetary policy gone wild, it’s safe (rather than sensational) to simply confess that nothing is real.

Stocks extended their short-term downtrend as the S&P 500 index fell slightly below its Monday’s daily low. Is more downside trading action coming?

With recent news from Saudi Arabia, Nigeria and Russia, it is clear the Petrodollar is dying. How will this affect the Gold and Silver markets long term as the dollar loses it's world reserve currency status?

On Friday stocks were the lowest since the end of August. We may see a rebound today, but is the market poised to go even lower then?