This post was just published on ZYX Short Sell Change Alert Option players are flocking to making bullish bets on gold. Now bullish bets on gold by option players are near a four-year high. BUllish bets at extremes are negative. However, gold has been under the control of momo crowd for
This post was just published on ZYX Buy Change Alert Smart Money actions in silver and miners were especially interesting today. For the first time in weeks, Smart Money was buying gold in size before release of the FOMC minutes. After release of the FOMC minutes, when gold crossed $1652
This post was just published on ZYX Buy Change Alert Our read of the FOMC statement is that QE3 is on track. Many FOMC members favor easing soon as they seem to be focused on high unemployment. As a result of the statement, stocks are spiking up, bonds became stronger and dollar slumped. Most notable is the
This post was just published on ZYX Buy Change Alert Momo crowd started buying gold this morning when the dollar weakened against euro. When gold broke out of the resistance, our algorithms show that heavy short covering ensued. Yesterday we wrote that there was a very, very short-term trading opportunity. That opportunity has
This post was just published on ZYX Buy Change Alert Last night, we informed subscribers of ZYX Global Multi Asset Allocation Alert of the Spiegel article and its significance for various asset classes including gold and silver. ZYX Global Multi Asset Allocation Alert primarily focuses on the long-term. This is where long-term calls on
European Central Bank Chief Mario Draghi may follow the U.S. lead and fire off his own bazooka. Requesting broader spending powers, Treasury Secretary Hank Paulson famously told Congress that he needed “a bazooka” to head off the financial crisis. German magazine Der Spiegel reports that the ECB is now considering
There are plenty of reasons to buy gold; buying gold just because Paulson and Soros bought gold is a fool’s game. For years, I have analyzed Form 13F Reports filed by institutional investment managers with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC). An institutional investment manager exercising discretion over $100 million
This post was just published on ZYX Buy Change Alert Gold and silver are running up on overnight comments from Chinese premier Wen that indicated higher likelihood of stimulus in China. Interestingly gold trading data from Shanghai overnight shows that Chinese investors dismissed Wen’s comments. However, American gold momo
Astute long-term investors are getting increasingly tired of quantitative easing (QE) or similar monetary moves from the Federal Reserve Bank, Bank of England, Bank of Japan, the European Central Bank, and the People’s Bank of China. In an environment where assets are artificially inflated, investors have increasingly turned to gold.
This post was just published on ZYX Short Sell Change Alert Gold and silver are falling hard this morning. As of this writing gold is at $1596 and silver is at $27.65. The reason behind the fall is that economic data both from the U.S. and Europe has come out better