Adam Hamilton

Contributor since: 26 Feb 2010

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• Copper Stock Valuations

  Published 14 April 2006 | viewed 8,523 times

  Last week I wrote an essay on gold stock valuations, which are nothing short of extreme today. Commodities investors need to be aware that the…

• Gold Stock Valuations 2

  Published 07 April 2006 | viewed 6,267 times

  With gold challenging $600 this week and the HUI achieving new all-time highs, gold stocks are on a lot of investors' minds. I have certainly…

• Tactical Oil-Stock Trends

  Published 25 March 2006 | viewed 7,590 times

  Out of all the major commodities-stocks sectors that are thriving in today's commodities bull, oil stocks are probably the surest thing. While their ultimate returns…

• Commodities Bull Portfolio Design

  Published 17 March 2006 | viewed 6,938 times

  After stealthily launching without fanfare in 2001, the Great Commodities Bull of the 00s is finally starting to pick up some steam. This powerful bull…

• Base Metals Technicals

  Published 10 March 2006 | viewed 5,869 times

  Back in 1999 whenever tech stocks had a pullback or retreated briefly, the chorus of popular consensus was deafening in declaring that any weakness was…

• Neutral HUI Technicals

  Published 24 February 2006 | viewed 5,293 times

  Financial markets have many innate characteristics that investors and speculators really need to understand in order to trade profitably. One of the most important is…

• Real Silver Highs

  Published 17 February 2006 | viewed 7,643 times

  Five weeks ago I penned an essay detailing 35 years of gold prices in real inflation-adjusted terms. At the time the financial media was trumpeting…

• Gold ETF Impact

  Published 10 February 2006 | viewed 5,131 times

  On November 18th, 2004 the first gold exchange-traded fund in the United States started trading. Known as GLD, this trust spearheaded by the World Gold…

• The Greenspan Legacy

  Published 27 January 2006 | viewed 6,217 times

  January 31st, 2006 marks the end of a financial era. The long-time Chairman of the Federal Reserve, Alan Greenspan, will retire after 18 years at…

• Tactical Gas Trends

  Published 20 January 2006 | viewed 6,066 times

  After surging well above $15 per million BTU in mid-December, just one month later natural gas prices have plunged by 44%. While this is certainly…

• Real Gold Highs?

  Published 13 January 2006 | viewed 18,314 times

  The Ancient Metal of Kings continued to dazzle this week, challenging $550. In honor of this awesome event, headlines in the financial press trumpeted gold's…

• Tactical Silver Trends 4

  Published 06 January 2006 | viewed 6,364 times

  Due to its relatively small global market, its hyper-volatility, and its proven historical potential to multiply capital many times over, silver remains a beloved favorite…

• Global Gold Breakouts

  Published 22 December 2005 | viewed 7,481 times

  Emotionally the financial markets are pressure cookers, great crucibles of concentrated greed and fear. But these dangerous emotions are wholly our own, the markets don't…

• US Govt. Energy Forecast

  Published 17 December 2005 | viewed 7,040 times

  Wall Street seems to have a pathological aversion to acknowledging the long-term secular bull market in commodities unfolding today. This is unfortunate since big Wall…

• HUI Leverage to Gold 2

  Published 10 December 2005 | viewed 4,979 times

  On December 1st gold closed over $500 nominal for the first time in 18 years. It has powered higher to four more consecutive bull-to-date highs…

• Trading Natural-Gas Stocks

  Published 25 November 2005 | viewed 9,311 times

  You wouldn't know it from the gloriously sublime autumn with which we have been blessed in much of the US, but winter is inexorably approaching.…

• Gold Bull Stage Two 2

  Published 18 November 2005 | viewed 6,141 times

  It has been a heck of an awesome week for gold, certainly one of the most exciting in recent memory. Not only is the Ancient…

• Trading XOI Volume

  Published 11 November 2005 | viewed 5,112 times

  With crude oil correcting and driving oil stocks sharply lower last month, investors and speculators are salivating over the awesome potential oil-stock buying opportunity brewing…

• Trading the Oil-Stock Bull

  Published 04 November 2005 | viewed 7,741 times

  On August 30th, the day the world started to realize just how devastating hurricane Katrina would prove to be for US oil-refining infrastructure, crude oil…

• Trading the Oil Bull 3

  Published 21 October 2005 | viewed 6,381 times

  After powering 42% higher so far in 2005, rising crude oil prices are increasingly dominating the popular market psyche. Indeed it is hard to have…