Adam Hamilton

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• Gold/Oil Ratio Extremes 2

  Published 01 April 2005 | viewed 7,966 times

  The financial markets are endlessly fascinating to study, but it is really not very often that we are blessed to witness extremes never before seen…

• Real Rates and Gold 8

  Published 25 March 2005 | viewed 6,936 times

  This week witnessed some big news on the real interest rate front. Notable developments hit the wires in both key components of real interest rates,…

• Trading with the CRB

  Published 18 March 2005 | viewed 5,358 times

  In last week's essay I discussed the magnificent breakout of the CRB Commodities Index back above 300 for the first time in 24 years. I…

• CRB 300 Breakout!

  Published 11 March 2005 | viewed 8,196 times

  As a diligent student of the markets I always find their various machinations intriguing and worthy of study. But it really isn't too often that…

• Tactical Silver Trends 3

  Published 05 March 2005 | viewed 5,904 times

  Silver's performance was excellent in February, up more than 9%. Since its latest major interim low on January 4th, it has rallied a very impressive…

• Contending Gold Perspectives

  Published 18 February 2005 | viewed 6,893 times

  Like probably every other major market move in world history, the bull market in gold is generating ever-increasing interest. Not surprisingly though, while the raw…

• US Stocks in Euros

  Published 11 February 2005 | viewed 5,787 times

  Since Washington launched its invasion of Iraq in March 2003, the US stock markets have generally been performing strongly in varying stages of a cyclical…

• Gold Stock Bull Healthy

  Published 04 February 2005 | viewed 6,845 times

  With the HUI unhedged gold stock index grinding relentlessly lower since mid-November now, it is understandable that gold stock investors are getting nervous. It is…

• Currency Countertrends

  Published 28 January 2005 | viewed 7,130 times

  The recent technical reversals in the dollar, euro, and gold are spawning a lot of discussion in the markets these days. Sizable currency moves broadly…

• Curse of the Trading Range 2

  Published 21 January 2005 | viewed 5,725 times

  Due to the stock markets' largely poor performance in 2004, the idea of a trading range has come back into vogue. Whenever Wall Street temporarily…

• No Fear in Stocks 2

  Published 14 January 2005 | viewed 4,533 times

  The behavior of the US stock markets in recent months has been utterly fascinating. From the market-igniting presidential elections a couple months ago to the…

• Tactical Silver Trends 2

  Published 07 January 2005 | viewed 5,724 times

  The past month has not been a happy time for silver longs, and the New Year has yet to bring any respite. After reaching its…

• Surviving Speculation

  Published 31 December 2004 | viewed 9,989 times

  Speculation is truly a strange art. It is one of the few undertakings in life that has virtually no external limits. In most undertakings, outside…

• Madness of Hostile Bids

  Published 24 December 2004 | viewed 3,503 times

  For gold-stock investors and speculators, 2004 proved fascinating on multiple fronts. While gold stocks didn't perform as well as they did in 2003 in general,…

• Trading the Oil Bull 2

  Published 17 December 2004 | viewed 4,211 times

  Last summer's boiling oil market has cooled considerably and plunged by 26% since its latest interim top. After surging from $42 in early September to…

• The Relative Dollar and Gold 3

  Published 10 December 2004 | viewed 5,490 times

  The global currency markets boiled this week with all the fury of a raging storm-driven sea, leading to some of the biggest daily swings in…

• Behold Gold's ETF

  Published 03 December 2004 | viewed 5,059 times

  Late last month I was researching the new gold exchange-traded fund in preparation for discussing its ramifications in the new December issue of our Zeal…

• HUI Leverage to Gold

  Published 26 November 2004 | viewed 4,468 times

  Gold-stock investors and speculators, blessed with dazzling realized profits for years now, are growing ever-more nervous over an increasingly obvious anomaly in the premier HUI…

• Real Commodities Bull

  Published 19 November 2004 | viewed 5,417 times

  The world of commodities, long a pariah during the great stock boom and bubble of the 1990s, is finally starting to win some mainstream respect.…

• US Dollar Bear Notoriety

  Published 12 November 2004 | viewed 4,894 times

  The very foundation of contrarian investing is the premise that the crowd is always wrong near major market turning points. Contrarian investors carefully watch the…