Adam Hamilton

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• Silver Lagging Gold

  Published 26 October 2007 | viewed 5,008 times

  Since the middle of August alone, gold has powered 18% higher driving a 40% rally in the HUI gold-stock index. Just a week ago the…

• Oil Bull Cycles

  Published 19 October 2007 | viewed 4,214 times

  After powering above $85 per barrel this week, crude oil is one of the hottest commodities around. Although this week's stellar prices haven't yet reached…

• Wheat and Inflation

  Published 12 October 2007 | viewed 4,715 times

  With gold challenging $750 and oil quite comfortable north of $80, this young autumn trading season has already proven exceedingly exciting and profitable for commodities…

• HUI Bull Seasonals

  Published 05 October 2007 | viewed 3,959 times

  As the nights lengthen, the leaves change color, and the chill winds of autumn begin to blow, the seasons are on everyone's mind this time…

• Real Gold Highs 2

  Published 21 September 2007 | viewed 5,692 times

  Holy cow! How about that gold price this week? With the Ancient Metal of Kings powering to awesome new bull-to-date highs, gold traders are rejoicing.…

• HUI Upleg Cycles

  Published 14 September 2007 | viewed 3,754 times

  Remember the brutal first hour of trading on August 16th? That was the fateful day when a mini-panic ripped through gold stocks like a tornado.…

• Real Rates and Gold 9

  Published 07 September 2007 | viewed 5,349 times

  Back in the young days of this gold bull, early 2001, gold languished in the $260s following a multi-decade bear. With little encouraging price behavior…

• What the HUI?!?

  Published 24 August 2007 | viewed 3,986 times

  After weathering a consolidation running for 16 months now, the remaining precious-metals-stock investors and speculators are a pretty hardened lot. Used to being the ridiculed…

• Long Valuation Waves 3

  Published 17 August 2007 | viewed 6,864 times

  Just one month after the US stock markets achieved new all-time highs, today's fear-stricken equity landscape looks radically different. Investors and speculators alike are frantically…

• HUI and Stock Bears

  Published 10 August 2007 | viewed 4,992 times

  The turbulent financial markets of the past few weeks have certainly been exciting, a welcome respite from the usual lackluster summer doldrums. But whenever volatility…

• Gold and USDX

  Published 27 July 2007 | viewed 5,531 times

  Over the past couple weeks the financial markets have burst free from their usual summer doldrums to provide some welcome excitement. Prices that have long…

• Energy Stock Correction

  Published 20 July 2007 | viewed 4,364 times

  In a rapidly developing world starved for energy, the powerful surge in energy stocks in recent months certainly has a strong fundamental foundation. With decades…

• Gold Bull Seasonals 2

  Published 13 July 2007 | viewed 4,200 times

  Investment and speculation are ultimately the world's greatest probabilities games. Traders exist in a realm of constant uncertainty, where capital must be deployed today well…

• Global Gold 3

  Published 06 July 2007 | viewed 4,196 times

  As American investors and speculators in precious metals and their miners, it is really easy to lapse into a provincial perspective. Although the American PM…

• China 2007 vs. NASDAQ 2000

  Published 22 June 2007 | viewed 4,894 times

  The phenomenal performance of this year's red-hot Chinese stock markets has led them to become the most-eagerly-watched financial markets on the planet. While even just…

• HUI Irrational Pessimism

  Published 15 June 2007 | viewed 4,495 times

  In a December 1996 speech, former Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan uttered one of the most famous catch phrases in modern market history. Buried deep…

• China Gold Technicals

  Published 08 June 2007 | viewed 4,612 times

  Two years ago I suspect American investors would have unanimously scoffed at the notion that the world would soon look to China's stock markets for…

• Gold Futures CoT 2

  Published 25 May 2007 | viewed 4,522 times

  I have loved reading my entire life, so when I am not studying the financial markets one of my favorite pastimes is reading great fiction.…

• Gold Stock Valuations 4

  Published 18 May 2007 | viewed 4,576 times

  This week the International Monetary Fund, which has long commanded the world's third largest official holding of gold bullion, once again made some noise about…

• US Dollar Bear 5

  Published 11 May 2007 | viewed 5,688 times

  With the headline US stock indexes doing so well this year, they are understandably absorbing trader attention and news coverage like a black hole. It…