Adam Hamilton

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• Gold Stock Recovery

  Published 19 December 2009 | viewed 3,048 times

  One year ago this week, I wrote about the end of the gold-stock panic. As measured by its flagship HUI gold-stock index, this sector plummeted…

• Gold Going Parabolic?

  Published 04 December 2009 | viewed 5,680 times

  Gold's performance over the past month has truly been epic. Since late October, it has soared 18.2% higher. Over a 21-trading-day span, no fewer than…

• Gold ETF Impact 5

  Published 20 November 2009 | viewed 3,100 times

  Five years ago this week, an obscure little ETF called StreetTracks Gold Shares was born. As the first American ETF enabling stock traders to gain…

• Commodities Stocks and SPX Pullbacks

  Published 13 November 2009 | viewed 3,589 times

  With the US stock markets very overextended technically, my recent research has focused on this development's implications. Several weeks ago I outlined the extremely overbought…

• HUI and SPX Pullbacks

  Published 06 November 2009 | viewed 3,176 times

  After India's central bank gobbled up half of the gold (200 metric tons) the IMF recently offered for sale, gold surged 2.4% on Tuesday to…

• Overdue SPX Pullback

  Published 23 October 2009 | viewed 3,998 times

  It's sure been an awesome year in the stock markets! By this week, the benchmark S&P 500 index (SPX) had soared 62.3% from its despair-laden…

• Relativity Trading

  Published 16 October 2009 | viewed 4,073 times

  The ultimate key to success in all trading, both long-term investment and short-term speculation, is simple. Buy low, sell high. Excel in this, and trading…

• Gold Futures CoT 3

  Published 09 October 2009 | viewed 3,076 times

  With gold forging glorious new record highs (in nominal terms), traders' interest in this metal's 8-year-old secular bull is ballooning rapidly. And like most commodities,…

• Copper Panic and Recovery

  Published 26 September 2009 | viewed 3,004 times

  Although copper is not the largest base-metal market (aluminum is way bigger), nor the most valuable of the primary base metals (nickel is worth several…

• Real Gold Highs 3

  Published 18 September 2009 | viewed 3,772 times

  One-thousand Federal Reserve Notes per troy ounce! This past week gold edged over $1000 to close at its highest levels ever witnessed. This much-maligned investment…

• Gold Stocks Still Cheap

  Published 11 September 2009 | viewed 3,483 times

  Last week when gold started flirting with $1000, the gold stocks caught a serious bid. On an impressive 3.8% 2-day gold rally, the flagship HUI…

• Gold Bull Seasonals 4

  Published 28 August 2009 | viewed 4,302 times

  New gold investors are often surprised to learn that gold prices have a heavy seasonal component. Seasonality makes intuitive sense for commodities inexorably tied to…

• Big Autumn Silver Rally

  Published 21 August 2009 | viewed 3,141 times

  Silver's fundamentals offer plenty of reasons to be bullish in the coming years. Relentlessly growing global investment demand coupled with reduced production is a recipe…

• Central Bank Gold Agreement

  Published 14 August 2009 | viewed 5,314 times

  Last Friday, the central banks of Europe extended their landmark agreement on gold sales. 18 national central banks, along with the European Central Bank itself,…

• SPX Driving Gold

  Published 07 August 2009 | viewed 3,461 times

  Among gold investors, the major drivers of the gold price are well-known. From mine production and central-bank sales to jewelry and investment demand, gold's fundamentals…

• Gold $1000 Quest

  Published 24 July 2009 | viewed 4,133 times

  Big round numbers are irresistibly alluring. There is some kind of psychological gravity about them that captures people's attention. Remember when the Dow 30 first…

• Cheap Commodities

  Published 17 July 2009 | viewed 3,987 times

  Commodities have had a rough go lately, especially before this week. You couldn't open a financial newspaper or turn on CNBC without seeing endless bearish…

• Gold/Silver ETF Stickiness

  Published 26 June 2009 | viewed 3,402 times

  Despite gold and silver consolidating in June, investment demand for these precious metals remains robust. This is evidenced by continuing growth in the bullion holdings…

• Silver/Gold Ratio Reversion 2

  Published 19 June 2009 | viewed 3,466 times

  Silver has endured a rather tough June so far. After peaking just under $16 on the 2nd, this white precious metal plunged 12% to just…

• Stock Bear Cycles

  Published 12 June 2009 | viewed 5,864 times

  Earlier this week, a friend asked me if I thought this stock bear was over. My first thought was "which bear?", for there isn't just…