Three Decade Perspective on Gold Miners
As you might have noticed over the past week or so, I’ve begun tempering my precious metals bearishness. My disposition has turned most noticeably on gold – not yet an outright pound the table bull, but have warmed up to…...
Quick Global Macro Overview
The ratio of the Nikkei vs. gold is reaching resistance after a massive 55%, four month rally off support. At the same time, gold sits at support itself. The Dow analog calls for a correction if the index can rally…...
An Alternative Way to Think About Silver
Given today’s post and numerous discussions we’ve had on the site about gold and the potential that it’s run isn’t over and that it might be coiling for another move higher, I figured we’d try to apply the same logic…...
Nikkei in the Early Stages of a New Secular Bull Market?
I’ll let the economists debate why or why not Japanese stocks should or should not go up. All I know is that I feel that there is a reasonably compelling price-based justification for viewing the Nikkei’s nearly quarter-century secular bear…...
The Conundrum that is Gold (To Bubble or Not to Bubble?)
Let’s continue to beat a dead horse. Is gold a bubble? If so, did the bubble run end in September 2011 when gold peaked around ~$1,900? We know that thus far, if gold was a bubble and the run ended…...
Is Gold Playing Catch up to the Yen and is its Fair Value $1,200?
Here’s the original post on this subject matter. We noted that since the early 2000s the gold had tended to lead the Yen. Deviations resulted in the Yen rallying or selling hard to catch up with gold. We also alluded…...
Evolving FX and PM Set-Ups
Forgive me for continuing to focus so much attention on the PM space. However, I do tend to think it currently offers very solid risk/reward set-ups and more importantly, the opportunity to make some money on the short side in…...
Fresh Thoughts on Gold
We’ve done a lot of work on gold on the site over the past six months in various posts trying to determine two important things: 1) Was/is gold a “bubble”? and 2) If the answer to #1 above is “yes”,…...
Strong Linkage Between the Yen and Gold Breaking Down for First Time in Over a Decade
The Yen and gold have tended to broadly trade in lock-step fashion since the latter’s secular lows in the early 2000s. If deviations have appeared in that pattern the Yen has appreciated or depreciated rapidly to make up the difference…
Silver Highlights
This post updates our last post on silver from January 11th right here. In that post we said two important things: 1) “…it (silver) will peak out a dollar above current levels on a weekly closing basis at ~$32 (potentially more…...