Adam Hamilton

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• Commodities Breakdown

  Published 13 October 2006 | viewed 6,798 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 5,278 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 4,498 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 4,559 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 4,540 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 3,665 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 4,139 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 5,898 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 5,612 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 6,358 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 4,760 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 4,847 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 5,423 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 5,777 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 4,832 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 7,354 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 5,839 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 7,756 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 7,325 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 5,453 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…