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Adam Hamilton

Adam Hamilton

Contributor since: 26 Feb 2010

Biography

Mr. Hamilton, a private investor and contrarian analyst, publishes Zeal Intelligence, an in-depth monthly strategic and tactical analysis of markets, geopolitics, economics, finance, and investing delivered from an explicitly pro-free market and laissez faire perspective.

  • Commodities Breakdown

    Published 13 October 2006 | viewed 6,882 times

    With the Dow 30 continuing to carve its new series of all-time record highs, the excitement it is creating is sucking in capital like a…

  • Dow 30 Record Highs

    Published 06 October 2006 | viewed 5,381 times

    Over the past couple of weeks a curious sort of frenzy has erupted around the venerable Dow Jones Industrial Average first challenging and then surpassing…

  • Gaming HUI Corrections 2

    Published 22 September 2006 | viewed 4,608 times

    September has been a brutal month for commodities investors. While the oil and natural gas routs have garnered most of the financial media attention, the…

  • Oil and XOI Corrections

    Published 15 September 2006 | viewed 4,648 times

    So far in September, blood has been gushing in great torrents from many major commodities. As of this past Tuesday, gold had bled 6.0%, silver…

  • HUI/Gold Ratio Limitations

    Published 08 September 2006 | viewed 4,673 times

    From August 28th to September 5th, the venerable HUI gold-stock index rallied an impressive 8.7%. Not surprisingly since gold is the primary driver of gold…

  • Tactical Copper Trends

    Published 25 August 2006 | viewed 3,798 times

    Copper, a lowly industrial metal seemingly incapable of capturing investors' imaginations, has become the dark horse champion of our unfolding commodities bull. It just keeps…

  • Tactical Silver Trends 5

    Published 18 August 2006 | viewed 4,226 times

    This year has been the most exciting witnessed in silver for decades. The fabled white metal entered 2006 below $9, blasted up to challenge $15…

  • Oil-Stock Bull Seasonals

    Published 11 August 2006 | viewed 5,982 times

    Oil stocks played prominently in the news this past week. With the corrosion problem in BP's transit pipelines at Prudhoe Bay necessitating a shutdown of…

  • Oil Bull Seasonals

    Published 04 August 2006 | viewed 5,692 times

    Speculation is a grand game of probabilities. When a speculator chooses to make a trade, he never has a 100% chance of winning or losing.…

  • Real Oil Highs

    Published 21 July 2006 | viewed 6,467 times

    Since last week when Israel decided that Hezbollah's ongoing guerilla war against the Jewish state would no longer be tolerated, oil prices have dominated the…

  • Gas Stock Divergence

    Published 14 July 2006 | viewed 4,856 times

    Since the spectacular interim tops in the precious and base metals back in early May, investors and speculators have been anxiously trying to divine just…

  • Oil-Stock Streak Odds

    Published 07 July 2006 | viewed 4,970 times

    The flagship XOI oil-stock index has been a wonderland for options speculators this year. A combination of factors including strong energy prices, outstanding oil-stock fundamentals,…

  • Gaming HUI Corrections

    Published 23 June 2006 | viewed 5,505 times

    After nearly five weeks of getting relentlessly hammered and eviscerated, it was great to see the flagship HUI unhedged gold stock index stabilize a bit…

  • Expected Metals Corrections

    Published 17 June 2006 | viewed 5,869 times

    This past Tuesday the entire precious metals realm watched in stunned silence as gold plunged 7.3% and silver plummeted 10.8% in a single trading day.…

  • Base Metals Technicals 2

    Published 09 June 2006 | viewed 4,959 times

    Some of the most fascinating and amazing market action this year has occurred in the base metals. They have blasted stratospheric in mighty parabolic surges,…

  • Curse of the Trading Range 3

    Published 26 May 2006 | viewed 7,477 times

    Propelled by the recent massive spikes in the metals as well as the persistently strong energy prices, the 2006 markets have been very much dominated…

  • Relative Gold Bulls 2

    Published 19 May 2006 | viewed 5,953 times

    This past week has been rather traumatic for gold investors. Just two days after achieving dazzling quarter-century nominal highs above $720, gold had fallen 5%.…

  • Trading the CRB Index

    Published 12 May 2006 | viewed 7,938 times

    What an amazing week in the commodities markets! The combination of the first $700+ gold closes in over a quarter century, all-time-record platinum highs above…

  • Gold Bull Stage Two 3

    Published 06 May 2006 | viewed 7,465 times

    2006 has been a banner year for gold, with the Ancient Metal of Kings powering from $515 to over $650 in just the first four…

  • Trading the Oil Bull 4

    Published 21 April 2006 | viewed 5,564 times

    This past week was one of the most fascinating I have seen in this commodities bull yet. Major commodities were hitting new highs all over…