Today gold and silver got slammed and in preparation Commercial traders had bulked their modest net short positions and large Specs had bulked their modest net longs in gold as…
[edit] Also see this post on inflation/deflation excerpted from NFTRH 525, hot off the presses. Crude Oil and Industrial Metals continue downward. This is significant per this NFTRH monthly chart…
Well, there is interest, but when it comes about it is more often negative. Here are responses my perfectly rational article about the Gold/Oil ratio got at Stocktwits. The first…
We have a lurch in a favorable direction this week as gold saw reduced Spec net longs (including the little guy) and net short covering by the Commercials. In silver…
It sure is not positive economic - or for that matter inflationary - signaling as Industrial Metals lose the short-term consolidation and break down on Monday and Tuesday. That also…
[edit] When viewing the sector through a technical lens it has been 'bounce only'. As this post shows, the fundamentals are in the process of changing for the better. What…
A well thought out piece by Biiwii.com's newest author, Trey Reik. Brinkmanship This senior portfolio manager at Sprott obviously does not need me to inform his well presented analysis, but…
In this post Steve Saville shows the long-term correlation between the 30yr bond and the Gold/Commodities ratio. Revisiting the Age-Old Relationship Between Interest Rates and Prices Almost as if Steve's ears…
We began the Amigos theme last year in order to be guided by the goofy riders during the ending stages of a cyclical, risk-on phase that was not going to…
Curiously, in a rising long-term interest rate environment... The Banks are still dropping. The Banks are still dropping harder than the S&P 500 (SPY). Despite the yield curve, which is…
K.N.E.E. J.E.R.K.s That is what I called the big pile-in to gold in 2011 as the refugees of the Euro crisis gave gold its final push to a top. They…
Okay, so the stock market cracked. We will look at daily charts of SPX, INDU, NDX and SOX to update the status and see what might be directly ahead. Of…
With interest rates making big headlines so too will dollar-bullish headlines come about. Any short-term weakness in the gold sector would theoretically be the 'anti-USD' gold bulls selling out. That…
It has been a long while since the last Amigos update because frankly if the characters, images and shticks I invent to portray market status begin to wear on me…