Gold has big year in 2020 and outlook for this year robust. Learn about monetary expansion and gold future prices.Read More

The gold futures price reached US$1,767/ounce this week before retreating, which was the second time it has surpassed US$1,760 in the past two months, marking some of gold's highest levels in several years.Read More

Silver is stepping back into the spotlight, glinting with the promise of rising prices, surging demand, and shifting market dynamics. Building on insights from my previous article, “Silver Worth $150-$170? Facts to Make the Case for a Major Price Surge,” it’s clear the metal isn’t just playing second fiddle to gold, it’s tuning up for its own symphony. Current Market...Read More

How many hours of work would it take topurchase one ounce of gold? Now you’ll know. Interesting, right?The 1980 Peak StillReignsGold price truly peaked in the 1980,and while it moved to new nominal highs in 2011, this wasn’t the case in termsof how much one would have to work for it. In 2011, gold peaked slightly belowthe previous high. This year, we saw another move to those extreme v...Read More

Copper, silver, and gold quite often movetogether, especially during the big moves.Impending Massive SlideAnd this is currently very helpful.Given gold’s recent decline and a muchbigger decline in silver and mining stocks, one might wonder whether miners’and silver’s weakness are telling the truth about the precious metals market’soutlook, or if it’s gold that’s...Read More

In my yesterday’s Gold TradingAlert, I wrote that we had some clues regarding the end of thecorrective upswing.CorrectiveUpswing Nearing Its EndWe saw an invalidation in the GDXJ (ofthe tiny move to new short-term highs), and before that silver outperformed ona short-term basis, which was also a bearish indication. Today, we got somemore. Today, miners are back in theirunderperform...Read More

Gold’s monster uplegremains alive and well, after weathering a sharp post-election selloff.  One had certainly been due, as gold had justsurged to extremely-overbought levels. The resulting pullback was big and fast, doing much essentialrebalancing work.  Gold’s resiliencedefying some bearish headwinds is a bullish omen.  Despite its massive size, this monster upleg...Read More

Gold has sure had awild ride in the several weeks since the US elections!  It first plunged then surged after Trump’sdecisive victory, which surprised legions of traders.  Gold’s earlier big down days helped fuelfears another Trump administration is bearish for gold.  Its poor performance after Trump’s first wineight years ago buttresses that case. But that&rs...Read More

Today we finally see it – the USDX movedlower at last. USD’s breather here is nothing surprising, and it’s not bearisheither.It’s simply normal for a market tocorrect after launching a rally as strong as what we saw in October andNovember. In yesterday’sanalysis, I wrote the following about the above chart:Yes,while I have been writing about USD Index’s likely s...Read More

That’s an interesting situation that wehave today. Gold us up, but silver and miners are down. What gives? In short, it’s almost certainly all about the temporary impact from the stock market. The S&P 500 Index is downtoday. Not significantly, but enough to make the parts of the precious metals marketmore linked to it underperform.MiningStocks: Strength in the Current SetupGDXJ is...Read More

The gold miners’ stocksare heading into their winter rally, when strong seasonal tailwinds help boosttheir advances.  This is especiallypronounced when gold stocks’ primary drivers of sentiment, technicals, and fundamentalsare bullish, which is certainly true today. This sector is nearing a psychological tipping point of surgingpopularity, making secular breakouts, and earnin...Read More

The current setup on the silver chart is alot like the start of the silver bull market of the early 2000s. In those dayssilver was under $5 and considered cheap.The current bottoming pattern from around2014 to now is very similar to the early 2000s bottoming pattern (see the chartbelow). I have highlighted two similar patterns(marked 1 to 5).The bottoming period of the early 2000s started when sil...Read More

Since the creation of the Federal Reserve,the Dow Jones has significantly outperformed silver.It was only during brief periods before the1919 and 1980 silver peaks that silver was able to outperform the Dow (see theDow/Silver chart below).                         The Dow/Silver ratio...Read More

Dear Reader,Gold might be losing out to stocks when it comes to headlines. But, the precious metal also just hit all-time highs and did it in style -- rocketing 35% in seven months. Elliott Wave International's analysts helped their subscribers get in front of gold's historic rise. That's why we're letting you know about their Gold Investor's Survival Guide.This FREE report gives you 5 principles...Read More

When the Federal Reserve decides to slash interest rates, it sets off a domino effect in the financial world, and precious metals like gold and silver are among the first to feel the impact. Yesterday, we saw a 0.50% cut, so it’s time to revisit how these metals have historically performed… and let’s just say, they’ve put on quite the show.The Golden (and Silver) Trut...Read More

The CPI data isgoing to be released today, so the markets are tense.Gold'sGains Limited by Short-Term ResistanceGold moved slightly higher, but thevery short-term resistance line based on the previous highs keeps gold’s gainsin check. The fact that goldalready confirmed the breakdown below its rising wedge channel makes the following declines likely from the short-term point of vie...Read More

When I think about the metals market, I chuckle as it has obliterated just about every expectation many have had about what drives the market.We have seen metals decline during a strong inflationary period in 2022, wherein most were expecting it to rally alongside inflation.We have seen metals rally alongside the US Dollar, when most were expecting it to move in the opposite direction to the dolla...Read More

As the summer winds down, investors are keeping a close eye on the precious metals market. August proved to be a stellar month for both gold and silver, with gold prices rising a solid 3.5% and silver not far behind at 3.2%.But what does the future hold? Well, according to Bank of America, the outlook is positively golden. In a recent note to clients, the bank stated, “We believe gold can hi...Read More

This gold bull’s latestupleg has proven mighty, surging to many new nominal record highs.  Amazingly gold’s massive gains have accrueddespite no demand from one of its primary drivers.  That’s differential gold-ETF-share buying byAmerican stock investors.  Enthralled bythe AI stock bubble, those guys have been missing-in-action.  When they finally return, gold...Read More

Copper is definitely the mostimportant industrial metal out there.Freeport-McMoRanReflects Market TrendsIn the entire commodity sector, onlycrude oil is more widely used. And given the increasing importance ofall-things-electronic, copper is unlikely to be forgotten anytime soon. Thisdoesn’t mean that the only way in which its price can move is up (far from it),but it does indicate that this...Read More

So, the GDXJ plunged about 5%yesterday, and it refused to get back up, even though goldprice did. Continuationof GDXJ Decline LikelyWhat a demonstration of weakness!After the vertical plunge, the GDXJsimply paused. This simply confirms what I wrote previously – that this is NOTthe end of the decline, it’s just an acceleration in it.My yesterday’s comments on the likelyh...Read More

No amount of wishful thinking and baseless proclamations will change that. Owning gold stocks (miners) instead of the actual physical metal (in other words, processed and refined with appropriate hallmarks and in tradable form) is a losing bet. Investors should ignore the siren song of gold mining shares.At their highs last week, gold stocks had increased eighty percent from their lows just two ye...Read More