Post-Payrolls Happenings

I find it interesting that July Payrolls was pretty decent, the US dollar firmed (apparently with firming expectations of a Sept. rate hike), some stock markets and commodities are weak…

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Microcosm

Today is another microcosmic representation of the Macrocosm, whereby we note that for a day at least, things are going the way that the next market phase will go... as…

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Armstrong to Allow a Gold Rally?

Ha ha ha... well, with the way he commands the respect of reformed gold bugs it almost seems as if gold will not rally until Marty says gold will rally.…

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More on Gold Mining

Since it seems to be the time to start writing more about the miners after years on the out cycle, with only the eternally bullish pompom squad micro managing the…

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NFTRH 354, Online Edition

A commitment has come up this weekend that will only allow me the time to review key points in NFTRH 354.  What a great opportunity to put more detail than usual in an update [edit: this has turned out to be NFTRH 354, with a PDF update to be mailed on Sunday].

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Macrocosm

Below is the opening segment of this week's edition of Notes From the Rabbit Hole, NFTRH 353.  After this theoretical exercise we got down to nuts and bolts analysis, which…

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Gold’s Epic Contrary Indicator?

In yesterday's NFTRH 352 excerpt, we noted the 'gone viral' feel of the Jason Zweig WSJ bearish call last week.  Thanks to the same reader who alerted me to the…

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Gold Sector Strategy

Folks, as if it was preordained gold got blown up in pre-US trading this morning as the media are absolutely blaring all kinds of stupid things for lowly gold bugs to endure and for gold bug haters to chest thump about.  This is market sentiment and psychology on full display.  We are robots, not sentimental humans.

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Let’s Talk About Gold

Excerpted from this week's edition of Notes From the Rabbit Hole, NFTRH 352: For what seems like forever we have been mechanical in managing the precious metals because they have…

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Gold vs. Oil Today

Could this be the end of the consolidation phase?  If so, things are changing on the macro, right here in the dead of summer.  The thing bounced back in March…

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Palladium-Gold Signal

Folks, it is just one indicator and we should not promote one item as if it has mystical powers above all others (it is part of a concert with its…

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Gold Ratios Today

Gold vs. Silver is up but still in consolidation longer-term.  It must turn down here or there will be concerns for many markets. Which would add to the concerns already…

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Indicators, Weekly Charts

A look at a few items in-day, in-week, fwiw... TIP-TLT ratio, indicates that inflation protected have been favored over regular long-term T bonds for all of 2015.  This indicates the…

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