Short-Term Trading Opportunity
Be owners of PMs and related items before the Fed meeting concludes today. This is a very short-term opportunity. Wanted to get this out pre-FOMC today. Per the silver post-bubble analog chart below, the next three weeks have the metal…...
Has the Gate Become Sufficiently Narrow?
The history of gold since the 60s is one of major multi-year rallies, followed by major multi-year sell-offs, followed by another leg of major multi-year rallies and so on. Forgive the self-indulgent melodrama, but a quote from Matthew 7:13 might…...
Lower-Risk/Higher-Reward Spread Trade Idea Useful for Those Looking to Deploy Excess Cash Balances
In the following chart we show the ratio of the Nikkei vs. gold. Into its 2012/2013 low of ~5, this ratio had fallen ~90% from its 2000-era high of ~70. However, upon hitting 12.38 last week, note the ratio has…...
Gold & Related Miners…Will the Bloodletting Ever Cease?
We’ve spent a significant amount of time on silver over the past year on this site, largely at the expense of gold. We harbor no bias against gold, we’ve simply not seen any noteworthy set-ups from which to develop a…...
How Gold’s Recent Decline Measures Up Against History
In the chart below I plot gold against its 2 Yr RoC. Though it stands at only -15% right now, come August/September when it will be lapping its August/September 2011 highs, its 2 Yr RoC will be ~-35%, assuming steady…...
PMs Experienced a Crash of Sorts in April, Now What?
I’m not convinced that when an asset experiences a crash/mini-crash-like event as PMs did in April that they immediately bottom and begin a sustained thrust higher like nothing happened. Such technical destruction tends to result in highly volatile bottoming processes…....
Gold at its Most Critical Juncture Since 1999 Secular Lows; About to Begin Out-Performing Again?
The chart below plots the ratio of the SPX vs. gold. As of mid 2011 that ratio had declined by ~90% from its 1999 highs, defining the opposing secular bear and bull markets for the SPX and gold, respectively, over…...
Global Macro Overview
In the charts below the following noteworthy events are occurring: Mega-cap gold miner ABX is at 20-year support as well as its 2008 panic lows while its YoY is more negative than it’s ever been at -56% The ratio of the…...
Isn’t the USD Supposed to Drive PMs?
A few weeks back we plotted the Yen against various PMs in this post and suggested the latter had to “catch down” to the former given 1) they have tended to act as leading indicators for one another’s fair value, with…
How Bearish is Gold Sentiment?
Not all that bearish, at least in the context of history, when gold is in a bear market, according to SentimenTrader. In other words, public opinion can sour much further than it already has, and stay that way, when the…