The Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC) of the Federal Reserve today released its customary statement after its meeting. Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke seems to have borrowed a page from Mervyn King, Governor of the Bank of England. King has made an art of playing a game with the markets by a lot
One of my bedrock principles is to leave my opinions at the door and let the data speak for itself. There is widespread belief among American investors and a large number of proclamations that the Chinese and Indians are not selling gold and silver into the swoon. Hard data from
The number-one problem for gold and silver investors is that the world does not end very often. You must understand that unlike stocks, bonds and forex markets, gold and silver markets are not very deep. In plain English, this means that typically at any one time there are not enough
The China super cycle is over. China will still grow at a heady pace, but I believe the torrid growth rates of 10% plus are a thing of the past. In my article, Generate wealth in 2012 and beyond , I described that the last big-picture macro cycle was ending.
First a clarification, the gold position taken this morning is a short position. In other words, the objective is to benefit from gold going down. Those interested in gold and silver may benefit from reading our morning post from today. Subscribers to ZYX Buy Change Alert and ZYX Short Sell
The U.S. Department of Labor just reported employment numbers for January. This number is known as ‘œmother of all numbers.’ January nonfarm private payrolls increased by 257,000 vs. 168,000 consensus. There are several components to this number, but our models focus on nonfarm private payrolls. The number was a blowout
We often trade gold ETF GLD and silver ETF SLV. These ETFs are not available in some international markets. However, different gold and silver ETFs are available in most markets. Please consider ETFs that trade in your market with the following two characteristics: the highest volume ETF and the smallest
S&P today downgraded France and other European countries. Such a downgrade just before the long weekend should have caused about $70 of up move in gold. GLD and SLV not only did not respond, GLD and SLV are now down. Gold futures GCG2 are now down to $1633 and silver
On the morning of January 11, 2012, there was a repeat of twin lessons for long investors in gold and silver miners. First it pays to understand the condition of mines. And second that the money is often made on the short side. Established in 1891, Hecla Mining /quotes/zigman/229110/quotes/nls/hl HL
As gold and silver continue a steady move up from recent lows they face a cluster of resistance. The cluster has been formed by the convergence of a number of popular moving averages. Most charts show jagged price movement. The jaggedness makes it difficult to get a good