Silver Editorials & Commentary

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.

Silver is on a long term SELL signal. Major signals can last for months and years and are suitable for long term investors.

Every fraud has its own demise built in. I have written this many times in the past, but I believe now that we are seeing a few examples of what I am talking about.

While copper went through its correction we have been noting each week in NFTRH that the Industrial Metals index, GYX had never aborted its bullish stance. Trends remained up and the index price held the SMA 50’s intermediate trend all the while copper (CPER, which...

As most can recall, in 2008, banks — the ones deemed “too big to fail” — were supported by one of the largest government bailouts in world history. Expect to see another banking crisis soon, but this time, it’ll be different.

“Robinhood is the poster boy for the craziest, most unregulated stock market era since 1929. That one ended in tears. This one will also.” – WallStreetOnParade.com

The September 26 election was an extremely close race, with the eyes of the world fixed upon the country as it tried to find the successor of Angela Merkel, one the most influential and longest-serving leaders in Europe.

The S&P 500 index extended its short-term decline yesterday. Is this a new downtrend or still just a correction following last week’s breakout?

Globally, the picture is similar to the situation in the United States, with slowing economic recoveries, rising inflation, and for the most part central banks—and governments—without dry powder to fight any slowing.

If I had to pick one chart that shows why the bull market is probably not over, it would be the one above. To be sure, the 157.26 peak recorded by Apple shares a month ago was a great place for an important top to have occurred; this chart shows why.

To taper or not to taper, that is the question. So far, the Federal Reserve’s constant talk and threats of an impending taper have performed the job better than actually doing anything. Stocks are flat, gold is down, as are bonds. But markets are beginning to grow...

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.

Silver is on a long term SELL signal. SLV is on short term buy signal. COT data is in bear market values. Testing support now.

We have surging energy costs that are crippling both industry and families in Europe and Asia. Companies are closing because of the excessive cost of natural gas. This is leading to far less products being produced. Some industries impacted are fertilizer, ammonia...

Below is an excerpt from an NFTRH report (#676, due out on 10.10) that has not even been written yet, outside of this opening segment that clarifies and makes some of the concepts NFTRH deals in more standard and hence, more readily understandable by more people.

Stocks broke above their consolidation yesterday. Is this an upward reversal or just another upward correction? The NFP release leaves question marks.

As China’s massive (and massively corrupt) real estate developer Evergrande circles the drain, an anxious world is wondering if this is an isolated and therefore manageable problem, or the first in a cascade of failures that threaten to pop the everything bubble.

Stocks extended their consolidation yesterday as the index gained over 1%. But today it is expected to open lower again. Is this a bottoming pattern?

The post-COVID inflation surge that was supposed to be “transitory” is looking a lot more permanent. On Friday, the Bureau of Economic Analysis Friday released data on Personal Consumption Expenditures (PCE), the Federal Reserve’s preferred inflation gauge.

Mining-friendly jurisdictions (mainly Canada and Australia). Agnico Eagle estimates pre-tax synergies of $800 million over five years and $2 billion over 10 years, implying annual synergies of $200 million, with most of the synergies in Canada. The combined company...

The chart above shows how bull-market tops are made when nearly everyone is expecting one. That's the case now -- for so many good reasons that I won't bore you with a checklist. Just take my word for it: the bull is dying.

Stocks bounced from the new local low on Friday. Is this the end of a downward correction or just some consolidation before another leg down?

In an effort to prove the Fed’s tapering won’t matter, I recently saw one stock advisor claim that, when the Fed tapered its QE from late 2015 into 2016, “the stock market rallied 60% in an almost straight line higher.”

Anyone schooled in the Canadian educational system in the 1960’s is by default familiar with William Shakespeare’s famous play Hamlet about a Danish prince that seeks revenge upon his uncle who was believed to have murdered his father to seize the Danish throne.

Silver is on a long term SELL signal. SLV is on short term sell signal. COT data is in bear market values. Testing support now.

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.

Lack of fresh water is now a global crisis. Water shortages mean food shortages, with hunger creating death tolls substantially exceeding those of the current Covid-19 crisis. According to the United Nations, some 800 million people are without clean water, and 40%...

Peter Lynch was a renowned master of stock market investing for the storied Magellan Fund for Fidelity for 13 years, generating an annual return on the fund of 29%, which compounded annually during that period meant an increase of 21 times an original investment ($1...

Below, we look at The hidden bankruptcy of the US in the wake of even more inflationary forces confirmed by cost-of-living-adjustments, Uncle Sam’s interest expenses, objectively unloved Treasuries and a roaring as well as convenient COVID narrative.

Silver has suffered a series of sharp selloffs since mid-June, serious collateral damage from gold-futures speculators’ fears of Fed tightening.  Naturally silver bearishness has steadily mounted in recent months as this precious metal cascaded lower on balance. ...

The S&P 500 index fell very close to its recent local low yesterday. Will the market break below the 4,300 level? It may fluctuate for some time.

The price of silver dropped a dollar, or over 4% on Wednesday. Some voices in the precious metals press want you to think that there is only one conceivable cause. We should coin a term for this form of logical fallacy: argumentum ad ignorantia. This is an argument...

A prominent U.S. Senator just called the head of the nation’s central bank “dangerous.” Unfortunately, the true dangers of U.S. monetary and fiscal policy were lost on everyone involved.

Ed discusses the Big Four Commercial Traders involved in trading precious metals futures on the COMEX  and the control and influence they have on the gold price and #silverprice. But who are these Big Four Traders? Find out more in this episode:

Stocks went lower yesterday following the failed attempt at extending their last week’s rebound. Is the market poised to break below the recent low?

Not so long ago, companies that make recreational vehicles were great indicators of market tops. Since RVs were frequently the final pointless toy that people bought (after motorcycles, boats, and massive pickup trucks) in the debt orgy that defines late-stage...

Following revelations that Federal Reserve officials made trades in financial assets while the Fed was taking extraordinary efforts to “stimulate” the economy, Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell ordered a review of the Fed’s ethics rules. While these trades...

Pretend you’re a country that over the past decade has engineered the mother of all real estate booms, in the process encouraging your citizens to load up on houses, apartments, raw land, anything related to the property sector. Your households now have 74% of their...

The S&P 500 index remained above 4,400 level on Friday. Will it get back to its early September record high? Or was it just a short-term upward correction?