Recent world events tell us that gold and silver have lower to go. The events on which gold and silver should have gone higher, precious metals staged only weak bounces. The events on which precious metals should have shown slight weakness, gold and silver fell out of bed. First let’s
The set-up for gold and silver to be slaughtered was perfect yesterday. There have been considerable outflows from popular ETFs like SPDR Gold Shares (GLD), iShares Silver Trust (SLV), Market Vectors Gold Miners (GDX), and Market Vectors Junior Gold Miners GDXJ. The selling today was quite different from the typical patterns over
On Wednesday, I received numerous emails from investors who are mostly in cash wanting to know what to do now. It appears that the floodgates for such emails opened when the Dow Jones Industrial Average hit a new high. A typical email also contains links to contradictory pronouncements from gurus,
There is much debate about the effect of currency wars on gold and its future direction. Currently, the fundamentals of gold are muddled. On the one hand, central banks continue to print lots of money, and some believe currency wars are imminent. On the other hand, inflation is stable, and
On Thursday gold staged a bullish ‘outside day.’ In traditional technical analysis, an outside day is traced when the low of the day is lower than the previous day’s low and the high of the day is higher than the previous day’s high. Candlestick or OHLC chart displays make it
This post was just published on ZYX Buy Change Alert. SYMBOL SMART MONEY BUYING IN MILLIONS OF $ SMART MONEY SELLING IN MILLIONS OF $ GLD 0 0 SLV 20.72 ABX 5.21 NEM 37.20 GDX 0 0 GDXJ 0 0 GG 0.62 SLW 0 0 PAAS 0.30 CDE
The Federal Reserve provides a gold mine of both medium-term investment opportunities and short-term trading opportunities. The Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC) holds eight regularly scheduled meetings every year. One of those is being held this week, with a rate decision set to be announced at 2:15 p.m. Eastern on
This up-leg in gold and silver was first initiated by speculation about QE3, and then gathered steam after QE3 was announced. The announcement of the bond buying program from the European Central Bank (ECB) helped stoke the fires of the precious metal bulls. Gold and silver investors should take notice
This post was just published on ZYX Buy Change SYMBOL SMART MONEY BUYING IN MILLIONS OF $ SMART MONEY SELLING IN MILLIONS OF $ GLD 22.41 SLV 6.32 ABX 12.21 NEM 8.35 GDX 20.56 GDXJ 6.23 GG 4.24 SLW 0.77 PAAS 1.23 CDE 1.39 Smart Money in our parlance is the
On September 25, 2012, the news was that central banks were buying gold. Gold fell from its morning peak. On September 26th gold continued to fall with some recovery in the afternoon. The International Monetary Fund (IMF) reported in its monthly statistics that Turkey, Korea, Russia, Kazakhstan, Ukraine and Kyrgyz were buying gold