Adam Hamilton

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• Trading the HUI/Gold Ratio

  Published 05 November 2004 | viewed 4,299 times

  With gold pushing shiny new 16-year highs this week, contrarian investors and speculators continue to earn dazzling profits in this young bull market. But even…

• Valuation Wave Reversion 4

  Published 29 October 2004 | viewed 4,541 times

  Seventy-five years ago to this very day one of the worst financial calamities in financial history rocked the world markets. On Black Tuesday, October 29th,…

• Trading HUI Volume

  Published 23 October 2004 | viewed 4,882 times

  While the performance of the gold-stock sector has been nothing short of spectacular in recent years, up 614%, in the grand scheme of things this…

• Trading HUI Parabolas

  Published 15 October 2004 | viewed 4,574 times

  One of the first cognitive skills babies learn is to identify certain shapes, like circles, squares, and triangles. It is kind of funny, but technically-oriented…

• Trading the Oil Bull

  Published 08 October 2004 | viewed 4,058 times

  Whether you traffic in the circles of belligerent contrarian thought or the mainstream market consciousness, chances are today's surging crude oil market is among the…

• Relativity

  Published 01 October 2004 | viewed 7,168 times

  Whenever the word Relativity is uttered, most people immediately think of last century's legendary physicist and genius Albert Einstein. Ninety-nine years ago Einstein rocked the…

• Amazing SPX Complacency

  Published 24 September 2004 | viewed 3,950 times

  One of the most striking attributes of the US stock markets these days is the utterly amazing levels of popular complacency. Today's investors and speculators…

• Tactical Gold Trends 2

  Published 17 September 2004 | viewed 4,628 times

  Last week we took a look at the current tactical, or short-term, trends affecting silver. The white metal is certainly languishing near its major support…

• Tactical Silver Trends

  Published 10 September 2004 | viewed 4,693 times

  While the month between late August and late September typically exhibits the strongest seasonal tendencies for silver, this first full week of September 2004 has…

• Gold Bulls' Three Stages

  Published 03 September 2004 | viewed 6,760 times

  As the unofficial end of summer storms in over this long weekend in the States, I find myself pondering the changing demand profiles over the…

• US Dollar Bear Intact

  Published 27 August 2004 | viewed 4,840 times

  One of the most fascinating enigmas of the markets this summer has been the erratic behavior of the mighty US dollar. Since this leading fiat…

• Gold/Oil Ratio Extremes

  Published 20 August 2004 | viewed 5,820 times

  With crude oil relentlessly marching towards $50 this summer, market commentary is utterly dominated by the potential implications of this major oil upleg. In fact…

• Synthetic HUI Options 2

  Published 13 August 2004 | viewed 3,931 times

  In last month's "Synthetic HUI Options" I argued that today's formal HUI options market is so woefully underdeveloped that superior substitutes are necessary for precious-metals…

• Silver's New Upleg

  Published 06 August 2004 | viewed 3,454 times

  It has been somewhat of an anticlimactic summer in the precious-metals arena. Following sharp corrections and/or long consolidations, gold, silver, and the HUI unhedged PM-stock…

• Euro Gold Stealth Bull

  Published 30 July 2004 | viewed 4,986 times

  While the relentless gold bull market in US dollar terms continues to help American contrarians grow wealthy, this same gold story looks very different when…

• Ominous Stock Technicals

  Published 23 July 2004 | viewed 3,455 times

  So far 2004 has been one tough year for the US stock markets, which have been excruciatingly oscillating in an exceptionally tight trading range. In…

• Synthetic HUI Options

  Published 16 July 2004 | viewed 4,683 times

  Speculators have always loved the incredible power and versatility of options, contracts which grant the buyer the right but not the obligation to buy or…

• Tactical Gold Trends

  Published 09 July 2004 | viewed 4,040 times

  After a psychologically-challenging first half of 2004, gold has gloriously entered the second half with a dazzling display of strength this week. The Ancient Metal…

• Gold Confiscation Hydra 1.1

  Published 02 July 2004 | viewed 5,538 times

  (As we head into Independence Day weekend 2004, I have been amazed at the number of questions I have received lately on gold confiscation. Apparently…

• SPX Volatility Extinctions 2

  Published 25 June 2004 | viewed 3,918 times

  From a speculator's perspective, 2004 has been one heck of a dull year so far in the US stock markets. The very volatility that usually…