Adam Hamilton

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• The Dollar and Rising Rates

  Published 18 June 2004 | viewed 3,938 times

  While the currency markets usually move with all the sound and fury of a glacier, some rare crosscurrents are converging to make for an exceptionally…

• HUI Tests Support

  Published 11 June 2004 | viewed 4,874 times

  In light of the latest gold-stock weakness earlier this week, once again precious-metals investors and speculators are nervously watching gold and silver and the companies…

• Put/Call Ratio Soaring

  Published 04 June 2004 | viewed 12,030 times

  In just the past couple weeks, an extremely intriguing anomaly has arisen in the US stock markets. The famous Put/Call Ratio 21-day moving average has…

• Real Rates and Gold 7

  Published 28 May 2004 | viewed 5,100 times

  With gold falling 12% and the HUI gold-stock index plummeting 29% from early April to mid May, it has been a tough couple of months…

• Gold Boiling in Oil 3

  Published 21 May 2004 | viewed 5,879 times

  Following its new all-time-record-high closes this week, crude oil is again very much in the news these days. Energy companies and speculators are rejoicing, Wall…

• Wisdom of Jesse Livermore 8

  Published 14 May 2004 | viewed 3,878 times

  Legendary speculator Jesse Livermore is surely one of the most fascinating characters in all of financial-market history. About a century ago Jesse Livermore blossomed into…

• Gold Stock Valuations

  Published 06 May 2004 | viewed 5,192 times

  The last few years have probably been the most educational and eye-opening for investors in the past seven decades. The spectacular rise, ferocious crash, and…

• Silver Corrects or Crashes?

  Published 30 April 2004 | viewed 5,980 times

  Almost 25 years ago Professor Roy Jastram wrote an outstanding book on silver, which he called "Silver: The Restless Metal". It is hard to imagine…

• The Relative Dollar and Gold 2

  Published 23 April 2004 | viewed 4,603 times

  It has been one heck of a rough week for precious-metals investors and speculators. General fear and despair is multiplying with each new down day…

• Golden Bull Buy Signals 3

  Published 16 April 2004 | viewed 5,133 times

  Wow, what an exciting week for gold! While some found the sharp drops in gold and especially gold stocks ominous and disconcerting, gold contrarians everywhere…

• Relative Gold Bulls

  Published 08 April 2004 | viewed 5,048 times

  Analyzing the gold market is more challenging than analyzing the general stock markets. While countless speculation indicators have sprung up around the enormous interest in…

• Euro Gold Challenges E350

  Published 02 April 2004 | viewed 5,100 times

  With the European Central Bank meeting this week, Europe was very much in the financial-news spotlight. The ECB's decision to sit tight on interest rates…

• The CRB and Long Rates

  Published 26 March 2004 | viewed 4,503 times

  Following a brutal two-decade bear market, today is once again a wonderful time to be a commodities investor or speculator. The venerable CRB Commodities Index…

• Trading the BPI Reversals 2

  Published 19 March 2004 | viewed 4,839 times

  After powering relentlessly higher for the better part of a year, the US equity markets are showing increasing technical signs of internal decay and weakness…

• War Rally Failing

  Published 12 March 2004 | viewed 3,892 times

  This week was a fascinating multi-pronged anniversary in the equity markets. Exactly one year ago the war rally in US equities launched when Washington, DC…

• Commodities Bull Breakout!

  Published 05 March 2004 | viewed 5,528 times

  Believe it or not, one of the most amazing market developments in decades has just transpired! The venerable CRB Commodities Index, a basket of 17…

• Stalling Monetary Growth

  Published 27 February 2004 | viewed 4,482 times

  In the financial markets, the bulls and bears can seldom manage to agree on anything. Take any number at all, it seems, and both the…

• Trading the Gold-Stock Bull 4

  Published 20 February 2004 | viewed 5,443 times

  The ongoing consolidation/correction in gold and gold stocks seems to be spawning a great deal of consternation amongst the contrarian community. Gold and gold stocks…

• Trading the BPI Reversals

  Published 13 February 2004 | viewed 5,280 times

  Regardless of how it is spun, when you cut to the chase today's US stock markets look like an echo-bubble, a mini-mania eerily reminiscent of…

• Great Commodities Bull 2

  Published 06 February 2004 | viewed 7,558 times

  Seemingly eons ago in April 2001, I penned an essay called "The Great Commodities Bull of the 00's". Its thesis, as you can certainly guess…