The market's just four trading days into 2018 and we're already witnessing some downright crazy action...The major averages have posted a perfect record so far this year. The S&P 500 is up 2.6% after 2018's opening week. The tech-heavy Nasdaq is up almost 3.4%. Meanwhile, cryptocurrencies continue to go berserk. Dogecoin, an "altcoin" that was named after an internet meme, just saw its market...Read More
Dear Reader,More men die of jealousy than die of cancer, said Joseph Kennedy.Today, a brief reflection on that ignoble but staggeringly human emotion...It is said a man is jealous of his betters.But it is only partly true.The average man harbors no jealousy for the great man.He is not jealous of the Alexanders... the Caesars... the Napoleons of this world.These are men stamped from a finer metal.....Read More
The wrong people - rebels, outsiders, nerds and techies - got on the cryptocurrency boat while their insider/rentier “betters” blew it and are now raging bitterly onshore, watching the crypto boat sail away.The psychology of money, wealth and speculative manias is endlessly fascinating. Most of what’s written on these subjects focus on the process of building wealth as if it were...Read More
I'm calling 2018 "The Year of Living Dangerously."That description might seem odd to lot of observers. Major U.S. stock indexes keep hitting new all-time highs. 2017 went down as the first calendar year in which the Dow Jones industrial average was up for all 12 months.Even in strong bull market years there are usually one or two down months as stocks take a breather on the way higher. Not last ye...Read More
Dear Reader,My regular readers are familiar with my use of the "snowflake and avalanche" metaphor.Avalanches emerge from unstable snowpacks on mountain slopes. The snowpacks resemble complex dynamic systems because each snowflake exists in a densely connected network with all of the others.When new snow comes, a single snowflake can land in such a way as to disturb some others, create a slide that...Read More
Stewart Thomsonemail: stewart@gracelandupdates.comemail: stewart@gracelandjuniors.comemail:stewart@gutrader.comJan 9, 2018I told subscribers to expect $1320 to function as a headwind for gold on this rally, and that’s happening right on schedule. To understand the nature of this headwind, pleaseclick here now. Double-click to enlarge this important weekly gold chart.Note that the two biggest...Read More
CloseGain/LossGold $1314.00-$6.00Silver$17.00-$0.12XAU84.95-1.55%HUI192.30-1.33%GDM647.49-1.30%JSE Gold1286.67-32.45USD92.51+0.17Euro119.39-0.28Yen88.88+0.41Oil$62.96+$1.2310-Year2.548%+0.069T-Bond150.21875-1.50Dow25385.80+0.41%Nasdaq7163.58+0.09%S&P2751.29+0.13% The Metals: Gold fell $11 to $1309 in midmorning New York trade before it bounced back higher into the close, but it still ended...Read More
By Jordan Roy-Byrne CMT, MFTA The rally in Gold and gold mining stocks easily surpassed our expectations and targets. The strength has been far more than we anticipated. The gold stocks blew past their 200-day moving averages while Gold blew past $1300/oz. Now it is time to take a technical look and focus on the key support and resistance targets. The strength of the rebound pushed the miners...Read More
Graceland Updates By Stewart Thomson 1. I told subscribers to expect $1320 to function as a headwind for gold on this rally, and that's happening right on schedule. To understand the nature of this headwind, please click here now. Double-click to enlarge this important weekly gold chart.2. Note that the two biggest volume bars both occurred as key events in India occurred. It...Read More
By Clint SiegnerGold and silver premiums have been following the demand for physical metal lower in recent months. As investor selling ticked up, popular bullion products poured back into dealer inventories. The result has been some of the lowest premiums we've seen in a decade for items like gold and silver American Eagles.The "premium" is the amount over the market price for gold or silver com...Read More
Gregory Mannarino started his financial career working for the securities and trading arm of the now defunct Bear Stearns before the dot-com bubble. He is an active trader of the capital markets and has published several books pertaining to finance, global economics, and equity trading; His most recent book is titled Ultimate Guide To Money and The Markets (free ebook). Gregory currently hosts a b...Read More
By Gary SavageJoin me in a look at the long term trends that are currently reversing in gold, silver, dollar, euro and the yen.https://blog.smartmoneytrackerpremium.com/ Read More
Fund Manager David Kranzler tells Silver Doctors the economy is headed for collapse.Kranzler sees a major red flag in the stock market. Bullish sentiment of investors is extremely high. Historically, this signals a market top. Also, he explains why sub-prime auto loans are headed for collapse.As for the precious metal markets, gold and silver have risen for a month, and Kranzler says we are headed...Read More
TECHNICAL SCOOPCharts and commentary by David ChapmanPhone: 416-523-5454 Email: david@davidchapman.comTwitter: @Davcha12January 8, 2018 "I would say Happy New Year but it's not happy; it's exactly the same as last year except colder." Robert ClarkWelcome to 2018. So far it looks the same as 2017. The President of the United States ended the old year and began the one with a barrage of tweets,...Read More
Catherine talks about her own breakaway from the corrupted system, and her work now at www.solari.com where she is helping people to understand our system, and move towards a more symbiotic one, based on empathy, morals, truth and co operation.Catherine Austin Fitts is a former Wall Street investment banker, macroeconomic expert and publisher of The Solari Report https://solari.com/.Read More
By Frank HolmesThe price of gold and gold mining stocks were very competitive in 2017. The yellow metal ended the year up a little more than 13 percent its best year since 2010 while gold stocks, as measured by the NYSE Arca Gold Miners Index, gained more than 11 percent. All of this occurred even as large-cap stocks regularly closed at all-time highs and cryptocurrencies invited massive specula...Read More
The World is $233 Trillion In Debt: It's Time to Rebalance To Gold- Record level global debt level hit $233 trillion in Q3 2017- World's per capita debt now more than $30,000- UK personal debts climbed to the highest level since credit crunch, reaching more than ?200bn- US consumer credit highest jump in 2 years by 8.8% in November to $3.83 trillion- BofE warn UK banks could incur ?30bn of losse...Read More
Gold and silver will see a sell off if they fail to break key resistances of $1327 and $1740. Copper needs to trade over $318.40 for the rest of the week to prevent a sell off. Crude oil looks headed for $65.00. Crypto currency volatility (I will not call it a sell off) should be positive for bullion. Chinese demand will zoom in bullion before their New Year next month. Chinese buyers will be us...Read More
Maybe.Since central banks began their B.S. back in 2001, when the Bank of Japan first began Quantitative Easing efforts, I've warned that it wouldn't be enough... that none of Continue...Read More
Gross: Bond bear market confirmed today. 25 year long-term trendlines broken in 5yr and 10yr maturity Treasuries.Continue...Read More