Gold Buying Opportunity
November 19, 2009 By Leave a Comment
Gold Dip "Offers Buying Opportunity" as Zero Rates Seen Until End-2010
London Gold Market Report
THE PRICE OF GOLD slipped early Thursday in London, losing almost 2% from yesterday's new Dollar record as global stock markets also fell despite a report from the OECD which doubled 2010 growth forecasts for the world's richest economies.
The US Dollar rose sharply on the forex market, but the drop in gold outpaced the drop in non-Dollar currencies, helping the gold price in Sterling retreat 1.1% from Wednesday's 9-month highs. [Read more...]
Junior Mining Stocks
November 7, 2009 By Leave a Comment
Commentary on 10 Junior Miners: A Victor Gonçalves Interview
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The Gold Report: Victor, you and many others were expecting a major pullback in the market and we had some pullback in late October. Is that what you anticipated?
Victor Gonçalves: It's roughly what I expected. It could have gone one of two ways, but technical indicators have been showing that we have one of those triple-top occurrences that cascade on the way down. Preceding that pullback was a broad based rally but it gave a false sense of hope, if you will, in the sense that it wasn't going to go any higher. The TSX, for example, which is mostly what I follow, hit about 11,700 several times and then went down. That's telling me is that we're looking at an interim market top, at least. Whether we're going to have another major crash again now is still in the air. I don't think we're going to have a major, let's say, 50% correction on this dip. I think we might have another shot at a rally before a major correction. And although I do think one is imminent and investors are taking some profits off the table, I haven't seen all the signs a full-up crash this time, and fall-to-winter typically sees seasonal strength. The economic gale-force headwind will be bit of a problem when we get into the seasonal weakness. [Read more...]
A Contrarian Gold Outlook
November 5, 2009 By Leave a Comment
Gold's Last Hurrah?
Although we haven't added to our gold position in some months at Investophoria, it's still fun to watch.
Gold Bugs are one-of-a-kind type people. When they are right, they are right. When they are wrong, they will be right. And here's the funny thing. Although most of the outside investing world goes through periods of scoffing (think late 1990's to early 2000's), to periods where telling someone "gold is going down" gets you looked at like you are some amorphous blob of alien goo that ejected itself from a UFO exhaust, they hold true to their gold-buggery through the high times and the low times. Gold bugs are one of the rare breed of individual who never lets go. [Read more...]
The Gold Standard: Why Krugman is Wrong
October 30, 2009 By Leave a Comment
Krugman, The Gold Standard and the Great Depression
Paul Krugman has concentrated his fire recently on those "thumping their chests" over the falling dollar. He has particular scorn for those recommending a return to the gold standard. In Krugman's view, a simple look at the historical facts will show that it was a superstitious fetish for the yellow metal that prolonged the Great Depression. [Read more...]
The Risk in Commodity Trading
October 28, 2009 By Leave a Comment
Martin Bedick on the Psychology of Risk in Trading
Best Financial Markets Analysis ArticleThe psychology of risk in commodity trading is not that often of an issue discussed. I want to share an interview with my colleague Martin Bedick. [Read more...]
How to Play the Moving Average and Momentum Ratios
October 28, 2009 By Leave a Comment
Technical Gold Trading Tactics
For those enamored of the current bullish moves in the Gold market, there’s still plenty of reason the believe that the yellow Gold bus has more than enough gas in its tank to make the trip up to the next important Fibonacci extension ratio without too much difficulty. [Read more...]