Goldilocks is the term for a not too hot (inflationary) and not too cold (deflationary) economic backdrop. Within this we'd favor Tech and possibly Semiconductors * for their leadership over…
I hate to be swayed by a man's jawbone, but you will recall that last spring said jawbone did a lot of damage and launched a bear market. So I…
Daily stock charts of four items added This is one of those non-priority updates, simply highlighting some charts to go with today's trade log entries. Leaving aside some of the…
Gold and silver prices this morning in pre-market The gold price found the first support level and is bouncing from it. The allowance for a normal correction was to around…
Gold and silver have dropped to viable support levels Gold has barely touched the top side of the 1780 to 1810 zone before bouncing a bit. While this is viable…
I originally expected the 27-28 area to hold for GDX. So let's not have some guy pretending that he predicted what is happening now. But let's do recall that we…
Observations in US pre-market Yields are bumping up again, putting further strain on bonds as would-be indications of easing inflation fears. The 10yr note has taken out its December low…
Last update for today, I promise (I think I promise). :-) I am back in my office after a scare earlier involving daughter, fainting, hitting head, emergency room. Now hopefully…
[edit] a family emergency (hopefully manageable) has happened. Makes stuff like the below seem unimportant. Please don't interpret any lack of activity in the trade log as anything other than…
If I am going to write like me as opposed to writing like a market analyst I am going to write that the recent bump in inflation signals and hence,…
As a macro economic indicator, the Cu/Au ratio (CGR) is attempting to bust bullish. But with other cyclical items like Palladium, Oil, Lumber, etc. in the dumps it's a story…
Looking at iShares bonds funds from 20+ year on down to 1 year, you can see that the bleeding is trying to stop today, and it really should stop around…
As the yield curve continues to be wildly inverted (implying hawkish Fed in control) short-term yields (2yr) are continuing upward toward the November high and long-term yields are continuing the…
In this update on the HUI, HUI/Gold ratio we also noted that GDX had not yet filled its gap below 29. Well, now it has. Filled it yesterday and is…