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One of our favorite analysts, Doug Casey, Casey
Research over the last few months has referred to 'The Shopping Season';
a time to pick up at bargain prices, some of your favorite stocks and long-term
warrants (editors comment) before this Fall's resumption of the bull market.
We and some other analysts, including Lawrence Roulston, Resource
Opportunities, have been anticipating the markets to take off before
the end of August. And now Peter Grandich, Grandich
Publications proclaims in his recent article, "Get Ready For Some Fall
Action".
Staying abreast of the current news, we see that mining companies are actually
reporting some good earnings and that exploration projects are advancing and
the news is good. All of this, setting the stage for one heck of a rally.
As we write this article at 1:00 CST with Gold at 625.60 (up 13.70), Silver
at 12.27 (up .30) and the XAU at 146.56 (up 5.84), we have to conclude that
investors should now be leaving the grocery store, proud of their new purchases,
take a deep breath and exercise patience. Sure we will have some 'backing and
filling' but don't dilly dally. Not that you can't buy later, albeit at higher
prices, but those of you reading this are the savvy investors, right? We are
the one's who have arrived early at this party and the party is still just
getting started. We will be selling out only when our friends and neighbors
(who now think we are crazy) awaken to this bull market in the months and years
ahead. Building inventory is what we like to call our accumulation process;
an inventory of shares and warrants that will be sold at much higher prices
in the months and years ahead.
Ourselves, we are aggressive investor's preferring to purchase the shares
of the junior mining exploration companies and or their long-term warrants,
if trading. We had our personal 'Shopping List' prepared 2 months ago and during
this corrective phase have made numerous new additions to our portfolio and/or
added to existing positions. We were aggressive buyers when some of our favorites
were beaten down on this correction. We wish to say thanks to the sellers of
those shares that we picked at the lows.
For now, we're done, tapped out! "ALL IN" as the poker players
love to say. How about you?
We share with you some charts to reflect where we are currently and keep in
mind; as I recall Paul van Eeden has
said, "it's all about the U.S. Dollar".
The Dollar Index closed today at 84.52 (down .46). Reviewing the charts below
on the HUI and the XAU it is apparent that we need a clean breakout of the
350 level and 150 level respectively to really get this party going once again.


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