Silver Editorials & Commentary

Gold has been hot this year, and for good reason: the Coronavirus pandemic, unprecedented bailout programs announced by the Federal Reserve and Treasury Department, and now riots developing around the United States have all contributed to the rise in bullion. For...

The stock market promoting mainstream media this morning reported “U.S. Retail Sales Rose Record 18% in May” (e.g. the Wall St Journal).  The S&P futures jumped from up 45 points to up 90 points.

As I was watching the pompom news channel (CNBC), they went into full damage control over Thursday's massacre, and I thought to myself, "What markets or media bullet points do 'the boys' need to control today in order to avoid a weekly sell signal and ensuing panic...

Just as I called for, there wasn't much S&P500 downside left, and I am hugely profitable on the upside reversal from near yesterday's premarket lows. That's quite a turn in momentum, isn't it? So, is the correction in the last throws?

“No one ever loses equity in a bankruptcy case,” U.S. Bankruptcy Judge David Jones said during a status conference in the J.C. Penney case last month. “Equity gets lost long before the case is filed.”

The Federal Reserve has become more aggressive again, after several years of acting docile. As you can see on this chart of the Fed’s balance sheet, it has very rapidly expanded from a baseline from (prior to) 2015 through 2018, of about $4.4 trillion. After which,...

After Thursday's blood bath, Friday's recovery fizzled out, new weekly lows were made and as well rejected – where next in this correction? Given the preceding momentum, I would look for some more down-to-sideways action before the upswing reasserts itself. Despite...

Silver is on a major SELL signal. Long-term – on SELL signal as of end of May. Short-term – on sell signal. Cycle is down.

It is my privilege now to welcome back Michael Pento president and founder of Pento Portfolio Services. Michael is a well-known money manager, market commentator, and author of the book, The Coming Bond Market Collapse: How to Survive the Demise of the U.S. Debt...

Our benchmark S&P500 is on a long term sell signal, a major correction is in progress. The current investing model remains in favor of bonds, therefore, investors should continue to overweigh with long bonds or bond ETFs for safety over growth.

Key to watch for Friday is the market's reaction to the 3085/3100 resistance levels on the Emini S&P 500 (ES), as we’re treating this as a dead-cat bounce.

Post-Fed selling took on a life of its own yesterday – so far so good, but isn't the downswing getting a little ahead of itself? Today, it's primarily the credit and debt markets that will shed more light. And what about today's inflation expectations and consumer...

Macroeconomics has become so far removed from reality that its practitioners cannot understand what is happening in the real economy. Never has this been more obvious than today. While they claim to be economically literate, macroeconomists are in thrall to their...

Yesterday's Fed statement drove stock lower, but did the overnight slide tick all the boxes so far – that's the question to ask. And why exactly did the market get so disappointed with the FOMC moves? I'll answer these questions in today's analysis, and lay out the...

The first graph gives you a glimpse of the “huge jobs rebound” that shocked the stock market into spurting past its 200 DMA barriers because retail investors and algos aren’t looking past the headlines.

Few investors realize that the fundamentals for silver continue to improve each and every day. Unfortunately, the bullish case for owning silver is lost in a market that has gone utterly insane trading high-flying over-leveraged tech stocks and other assorted...

Egon and Grant address global market risks, the now total disconnect between the recent price rise of risk assets and the current collapse in economic and social signals. They obviously also cover the role of gold as a historically consistent solution to both...

Going from strength to strength, but isn't a soft patch in stocks drawing near – or better yet, aren't we entering it with today's premarket action? The bulls have shaken off anything coming their way recently, and I continue to think it'll turn out as a blip on the...

I believe in it in the sense that I believe it will stupidly become even stupider for a short time. So, I’m putting money back into stocks in order to bet on stupid, not because I believe in a phantom V-shaped recovery, but because I constantly hear plenty of people...

If Americans thought the U.S. Government would be in serious trouble as its ability to service its ballooning debt would become unmanageable, guess again.  After the U.S. Government added nearly $3 trillion more debt in just the past eight months (fiscal year), the...

Stocks shaking off whatever comes there way was the essence of my call – and with surprisingly strong non-farm payrolls, the fuse was lit. Rising relentlessly, they broke out of the bearish wedge to the upside. In today's flagship Stock Trading Alert, I'll examine...

Silver is on a major SELL signal. Long-term – on SELL signal as of end of May. Short-term – on buy signal. Cycle is down.

Our benchmark S&P500 is on a long term sell signal, a major correction is in progress. The current investing model remains in favor of bonds, therefore, investors should continue to overweigh with long bonds or bond ETFs for safety over growth.

It is my privilege now to welcome back Michael Pento president and founder of Pento Portfolio Services. Michael is a well-known money manager, market commentator, and author of the book, The Coming Bond Market Collapse: How to Survive the Demise of the U.S. Debt...

Something big to move stocks is brewing under the surface – Treasuries are down, the dollar is under pressure, gold refusing to decline much… I think it's the market's growing realization that all the post-corona money printing, stimulus bills, will be hugely...

More than 100 companies are competing to be first in the race to get a COVID-19 vaccine to market. It’s a race against time, not because the death rate is climbing but because it is falling – to the point where there will soon be too few subjects to prove the...

Trading and chart software provides many features. The ones most commonly used are alerts for extremes. Session opening and closes. Highs and lows of the day (week, month, year). Volume, range and price percentage spikes and so forth.

The NFTRH plan is and has been that the gold mining sector, due to the fundamentals implied by the handy graphic below, could eventually lead a world full of inflatables higher. The miners, leveraging gold’s out performance to most everything else during liquidity...

The price of silver soared in May, jumping more than 19 percent on safe haven demand as well as increased expectations of a swift economic recovery, given its many industrial applications. Not only was this silver’s best month since 2011, but it also marked an...

So far this year, the story in precious metals markets has been all about gold. Speculators have this idea that gold is a hedge against inflation. They don’t question it, don’t theorise; they just assume. And when every central bank issuing a respectable currency...

The US Dollar Index is getting close to the breakdown that will signal a massive Silver rally. A type of Silver rally that was last seen in the 70s, when Silver went from around $5 to $50.

The 2020’s are shaping up to be a great period for silver. Before diving into why, it’s worth reminding about a key difference between gold and silver.

Some might say “Silver’s performance over the past several weeks has been nothing short of phenomenal.” Others talk and act as if all of their wildly crazy price predictions have already come true.

Neither on Monday, nor on Tuesday did we see strong volume, but prices rose regardless –is it time to bet the farm on higher stocks right next? As quite a few yesterday-mentioned reasons to be cautious were resolved bullishly, the buyers' case got stronger.

Just when it seemed as though America may be turning the corner after months of lockdown… just when it seemed as though we were on a path to reopening and gradually returning to normalcy… just when the prospects of panic-induced social unrest seemed to be behind us...

What goes up, must come down.  And, this is most certainly true for the mighty North Dakota Bakken… the second-largest shale oil-producing region in the United States.  Even after the global contagion fades away, the North Dakota Bakken has likely reached peak...

Monday’s session was an inside day within a potential inside week/high-level consolidation context. Basically, the regular trading hours (RTH) session was confined to a 3059-3027 range on the Emini S&P 500 (ES), which is about 1%.

History repeats itself with staggering similarity. The Crises of the 3rd Century and today have much in common. All empires have the seeds of their own destruction within them. So if we look back almost 2000 years to the Roman Empire we will find exactly the same...

When it comes to closing prices, stocks entered the month of June on a strong note, but the daily volume wasn't exactly convincing. While many signs though continue to be arrayed behind the slow grind higher, first swallows of short-term non-confirmation are...

Index futures have done a tentative alley-oop Sunday night, feinting lower before moving as though to challenge Friday's nutty highs. They occurred, apparently, because Trump was not as hard on China as he could have been when he addressed the nation ahead of the...