Adam Hamilton

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• Gasoline, Diesel, and Oil

  Published 09 May 2008 | viewed 3,910 times

  Gasoline, usually taken for granted, is weighing heavily on consumer sentiment today. In the States, the AAA just reported that retail gas soared to an…

• Gold, Silver, HUI Technicals

  Published 18 April 2008 | viewed 3,602 times

  After an exceptionally turbulent month in the precious-metals complex, many traders are trying to make sense out of all the chaos. Did the recent violent…

• Global Gold 4

  Published 11 April 2008 | viewed 3,306 times

  Of all the countless investments worldwide, gold is easily the most universally recognized. From the biggest banks in premier cosmopolitan cities to the smallest vendors…

• Big HUI Daily Moves

  Published 04 April 2008 | viewed 3,349 times

  For precious-metals stock traders, weathering outsized volatility is a fact of life. Yet again over the last few weeks this truth was really driven home.…

• HUI Bull Seasonals 2

  Published 21 March 2008 | viewed 3,538 times

  After an incredibly volatile week for the precious metals, PM-stock traders are very worried. Despite Bernanke's Fed forcing real interest rates even more massively negative,…

• Big SPX Daily Moves

  Published 14 March 2008 | viewed 4,586 times

  On Tuesday March 11th, the flagship S&P 500 (SPX) stock index rocketed 3.7% higher in a single trading day! This big rally proved a welcome…

• Real Rates and USDX

  Published 07 March 2008 | viewed 4,138 times

  After sliding to its lowest levels in history this week, the flagging US dollar has captured the limelight. And it certainly should. The dollar is…

• HUI Upleg Structure

  Published 22 February 2008 | viewed 3,041 times

  Despite very difficult prevailing stock-market conditions, the HUI unhedged gold-stock index has soared 55% since mid-August! You'd think gold-stock traders would be thrilled with such…

• XOI vs. Oil and SPX

  Published 15 February 2008 | viewed 2,903 times

  Crude oil's fundamentals are extraordinarily bullish. Global demand for oil is growing relentlessly, and most consumers have little choice but to pay virtually any price…

• HUI Leverage to Gold 4

  Published 08 February 2008 | viewed 3,417 times

  As a stock-market sector, gold stocks are obscure, increasingly volatile, and seemingly perpetually unloved. Yet investors and speculators choose to own them anyway. Why? Because…

• SPX Secular Bears

  Published 26 January 2008 | viewed 5,063 times

  Back in early October when the benchmark S&P 500 stock index was hitting all-time highs, "bear" was a heretical four-letter word. Merely letting it roll…

• Real Silver Highs 2

  Published 18 January 2008 | viewed 3,848 times

  Gold is definitely not the only commodity enjoying a very happy new year. The strong global investment demand for precious metals has spilled over into…

• HUI and Stock Bears 2

  Published 11 January 2008 | viewed 3,246 times

  The young new year has not been very happy at all for the stock markets. In the first five trading days of 2008 alone, the…

• CRB False Witness

  Published 04 January 2008 | viewed 3,832 times

  Around 33 centuries ago, one of the most famous men in history hiked up a mountain probably now known as Jabal al Lawz in today's…

• HUI/Gold Ratio Trends 2

  Published 21 December 2007 | viewed 3,701 times

  If you are a gold-stock investor, the dark cold days surrounding the winter solstice seem exceptionally fitting this year. As the warm sunlight has largely…

• Euro Gold Records

  Published 14 December 2007 | viewed 3,485 times

  Despite Washington and the Fed working fast and furiously to destroy international confidence in the US dollar, it still remains the currency of choice for…

• GDX Gold-Stock ETF

  Published 07 December 2007 | viewed 5,952 times

  Investing and speculating in gold stocks is a very risky business. While they tend to greatly leverage the underlying gains in gold during a secular…

• Stock Trading 101

  Published 23 November 2007 | viewed 5,813 times

  Are you interested in trading in the stock markets? Do you have questions about getting started? You are certainly not alone. Almost weekly I hear…

• Gold ETF Impact 3

  Published 16 November 2007 | viewed 4,374 times

  Three years ago on November 18th a landmark event polarized the gold world. The first gold exchange-traded fund to trade in the United States, the…

• Trading the Gold-Stock Bull 6

  Published 09 November 2007 | viewed 3,783 times

  Gold, which was a scoffed-at pariah not too many years ago, suddenly finds itself on the verge of being almost sexy again. With this metal…