Doctor Copper checks in, takes your pulse, utters a few reassuring words and then promptly leaves the room with little more to say. No prescription yet as he waffles around…
Copper lurched higher today and like the stock market, eased its enthusiasm a bit into the close. Click for a better view. I think you can sort of tell the…
So the Trade War Food Fight (TWFF) has hammered Doctor Copper and his Industrial Metals pals of late, along with the strong dollar (now taking a much needed pullback). But…
The title is just an excuse to reference an old market saying about copper as the metal with a Ph.D. in Economics. I think that is just so much noise…
The GDX/COPX ratio has broken above the 50 & 200 day moving averages and is still going, despite gold's ignominious state at the moment. Here's what gold (GLD) looks like…
People look at the Doc, with his Ph.d. in Economics as a key cyclical indicator. The Wall Street Journal gave investors handy reasons why Copper was under performing broader commodities...…
Much like the Industrial Metals in general, the copper miners (COPX) are in a post-2015 uptrend. That uptrend can break at any time but the trend being the trend, if…
Well, it's just a day. But after the big bounce back in stocks one set of indicators is not confirming the big upward burst. I took a look at PALL/Gold…
I am already long two of its top 3 holdings (First Quantum & Teck) along with RIO. But the Global X Copper Miners ETF is the latest in the bull…
Some monthly charts of interest in the commodity sector, including precious metals. CRB Index dwells below key resistance. A break of 200 would target around 250 in 2018. CRB/SPX Ratio…
Sometimes I like to trot these lumbering monthlies out so we can quiet everything down and see where various markets are slowly heading. First of all, as I go down…
This may be one of the simplest updates ever. As I was looking through some monthly charts for a post on big picture multi-market status I saw something that hit…
Every once in a while I like to trot out the monthlies so we can refresh the big picture view. So, here they are on a few varied items. The…
We are already studying these things from different angles and time frames, but I thought I'd put two economically sensitive and positively correlated metals (Palladium and Copper) and old friend,…