Puts on Silver (SLV)

I don't often short the precious metals other than for hedging purposes, but this time I am taking a kick at the can and buying puts against SLV, just because…

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SIL-SLV & GDX-GLD Do Not Inspire

Silver miners vs. the metal they dig out of the ground are not doing well at all. Gold miners vs. the metal they dig out of the ground have a…

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Gold and Silver Stopped At Key Resistance

We have been noting a break in the equivalent resistance in the miner indexes and ETFs, but gold and silver came close, caught a whiff of the cigar, but then…

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Gold and Silver at Resistance

Everybody knows gold had resistance at the nice, round 1200 number.  It got through there yesterday, but can still be considered at resistance defined by the spring lows.  At the…

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GDX Pre-Trump Jitters; 60 Min. Chart

Here is another 'day trader' chart (hourly) of GDX showing the lower (Jan. 5) gap being filled (ref. Jan. 9 post using a 5 min. chart).  So that gap is…

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GDX: Almost Too Perfect

We have been noting that it is a bounce within a downtrend for the precious metals.  In subscriber updates I've gone into detail on the parameters, and publicly we noted…

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Gold in Euros Forecasting Gold’s Future?

Gold vs. the Euro index can be a leader for gold in nominal terms.  I was reminded of this when reading an aside within Tom McClellan's article Copper Leads the…

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Newsflash: Da Boyz Manip’d Silver!

If anyone else wants to email me crowing about this then feel free; the contact link is right up above.  As one mailer put it... "Still no manipulation, my credulous…

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Improving Sentiment Backdrop in Gold & Silver

While I find the public opinion data (like Sentimentrader.com's 'OPTIX') to be too jumpy from week to week to set your watch by, one thing that is more stable is…

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Attn: Gold & Silver Bugs; a Line in the Sand

Where just 1.5 weeks ago a Trump victory would have been hailed to be bullish for gold by the Pompom wavers (I failed to see why either candidate would have…

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HUI Target, etc.

HUI has been targeting as low as the gap at the 180 area for months now, since losing the 50 day averages.  I may have shown this chart once publicly,…

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