Adam Hamilton

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• Silver in Crisis

  Published 21 November 2008 | viewed 5,627 times

  The unprecedented financial turmoil plaguing all markets these days is dominating everyone's attention. In a troubled time when the flagship S&P 500 stock index can…

• Gold ETF Impact 4

  Published 14 November 2008 | viewed 5,832 times

  Amidst our seemingly endless slog through today's dark sentiment wastelands plaguing the markets, we have a birthday to celebrate. Four years ago this week, a…

• Stock Bull Being Born?

  Published 07 November 2008 | viewed 7,719 times

  With the election of a new President, it was an important week for the financial markets. Whether you were part of the 53% of Americans…

• Dollar-Driven Gold Plunge

  Published 24 October 2008 | viewed 7,157 times

  During this unprecedented month where the flagship S&P 500 has plummeted 23.0%, it isn't surprising this brutal stock-market selloff is monopolizing investors' attention. Thus gold's…

• Stock Bear Extremes

  Published 17 October 2008 | viewed 4,658 times

  The brutal stock markets have been exceedingly hostile to long-term investors for a couple months now, crushing all stocks regardless of their individual fundamentals and…

• Trading Stock Bears 2

  Published 10 October 2008 | viewed 5,689 times

  Last week was one of the wildest witnessed in the stock markets in modern history. On Monday September 29th stocks started plunging immediately after the…

• Commodities Cycles

  Published 26 September 2008 | viewed 6,450 times

  Overshadowed by the pathetic drama gushing forth from the ailing financial stocks these days, other markets have slipped out of the limelight. In particular commodities,…

• Junior Mining Stock Crisis

  Published 19 September 2008 | viewed 6,988 times

  Commodities investors were treated to an extraordinary event this week when gold skyrocketed 11.1% in a single trading day! This was all the more impressive…

• Commodities and Oil

  Published 12 September 2008 | viewed 5,400 times

  After starting to recover a bit in mid-August, commodities have just been crushed in September. Selling is overwhelming and universal, shattering countless technical support lines.…

• SPX Bear Technicals

  Published 22 August 2008 | viewed 4,008 times

  Back in mid-July, as Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac teetered on the edge of collapse, the flagship S&P 500 (SPX) stock index plunged to 1215…

• Epic Gold-Stock Buying Op

  Published 15 August 2008 | viewed 4,448 times

  The precious-metals stocks did not take kindly to gold's steep selloff this week. On Monday the flagship HUI gold-stock index plunged 6.0% at the climax…

• Gold Bull Seasonals 3

  Published 08 August 2008 | viewed 3,612 times

  It's been a tough few weeks for gold investors. In mid-July this Ancient Metal of Kings closed near $976, within spitting distance of its all-time…

• PM Summer Doldrums

  Published 25 July 2008 | viewed 2,900 times

  For the most part, this summer has not been kind to precious-metals investors and speculators. While gold did rally rather sharply from mid-June to mid-July,…

• Dow Hits Fair Value

  Published 18 July 2008 | viewed 4,472 times

  In recent weeks a major secular milestone was achieved in the US stock markets. But because of all the distracting market turbulence, very few investors…

• Trading Stock Bears

  Published 11 July 2008 | viewed 4,072 times

  Earlier this week, the flagship S&P 500 stock index (SPX) officially entered bear-market territory. As it edged past a 20% loss since its all-time high…

• SLV Silver ETF

  Published 20 June 2008 | viewed 4,689 times

  On April 28th, 2006, Barclays launched the first silver exchange-traded fund in the US. Traded on the AMEX as SLV, the iShares Silver Trust was…

• SPX Bear Downleg

  Published 13 June 2008 | viewed 4,923 times

  The early summer weeks of June have not been kind to the US stock markets. Across June's initial 8 trading days, the flagship S&P 500…

• Gaming Oil Corrections

  Published 06 June 2008 | viewed 3,308 times

  Without a doubt, crude oil is the most important commodity on our planet. Hypothetically if it vanished overnight, our entire modern world would collapse. No…

• Silver Technicals 2

  Published 23 May 2008 | viewed 3,717 times

  I've never seen any other commodity generate such a fanatical following as silver. There are many investors and speculators interested in nothing but silver and…

• Money Inflation

  Published 16 May 2008 | viewed 3,887 times

  Due to all kinds of prices rising to levels that would have seemed inconceivable only a few years ago, inflation concerns are mushrooming today. And…