Dan Norcini

Contributor since: 26 Feb 2010

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• Gold Commitments of Traders Report - Speculators in a World of Hurt

  Published 09 March 2015 | viewed 0 times

  Methinks the continued persistence of the entire speculative crowd (Hedge Funds, Large Reportables and the General Public) in remaining on the long side of the…

• Dan Norcini Comments on Precious Metals and Currencies

  Published 06 March 2015 | viewed 0 times

  Professional commodities trader Dan Norcini joins us to analyze the fundamental and technical factors driving precious metals and currencies. Topics discussed include the US$ breakout,…

• US Dollar Remaining Strong

  Published 01 March 2015 | viewed 0 times

  A quick update on the USDX is in order after a strong surge to the upside on Thursday of this past week. Larger Image I…

• Weekly Gold COTs and More

  Published 23 February 2015 | viewed 0 times

  Fading Greece concerns were a tough headwind for the yellow metal this week and it certainly had a negative impact on the intermediate-term chart. Larger…

• Long Bond Breakdown

  Published 15 February 2015 | viewed 0 times

  Well, here we go again. I do not know how many times over the past year or so I have noted what looked like a…

• Gold Commitments of Traders and More

  Published 08 February 2015 | viewed 0 times

  The COT report explains the reason we saw such a dramatic drop in the gold price ( along with all of the other safe havens…

• Other Precious Metals To Manipulate

  Published 30 January 2015 | viewed 0 times

  Here is a quick update for the silver surfers out there. I mentioned today that the Australian Dollar was taken out to the woodshed and…

• Decoding the Gold COTs: Myth vs Reality

  Published 26 January 2015 | viewed 0 times

  Over the many years that I have been writing about the commodity futures markets, I have tried to make a point of homing in on…

• Gold Due for a Setback?

  Published 24 January 2015 | viewed 0 times

  Now that we have had a chance to see how the dust settled after this historic day in the markets, there are some observations I…

• ECB QE Program Taking Shape

  Published 17 January 2015 | viewed 0 times

  More and more it appears as if we are going to get some form of QE next week out of the ECB. The big question…

• HUI Closes Strong - Gold Clears First Resistance Hurdle

  Published 13 January 2015 | viewed 0 times

  Two quick charts to note some developments in gold. The first is of the metal itself. Larger Image A couple of things worth mentioning. First…

• Large Speculators Returning to Gold - But

  Published 11 January 2015 | viewed 0 times

  Here is the latest chart detailing the relationship between the Hedge funds NET POSITIONING in the Comex gold market and the price of the actual…

• Bond Bull Refuses to Die

  Published 06 January 2015 | viewed 0 times

  Call this the market that simply will not die. As mentioned in some previous posts, just about the time one thinks that this market is…

• Large Speculators Play Catch a Falling Knife in Crude Oil

  Published 31 December 2014 | viewed 0 times

  Another week - another CFTC report - more of the same, namely the large speculative category, hedge funds and other reportable traders, continue their love…

• Strong GDP Numbers Sends Dollar Soaring

  Published 23 December 2014 | viewed 0 times

  This morning, the US Commerce Department released the Q3 2014 annual rate of growth number. The number shocked the analysts who had expected an upward…

• Euro Succumbs to ECB QE Expectations and FOMC

  Published 18 December 2014 | viewed 0 times

  Now that the dust from today's wild ride, we can take a look-see how the Euro fared. In watching the initial reaction to the actual…

• Australian Mining Company Hedges Production

  Published 15 December 2014 | viewed 0 times

  Some of the readers who have read my musings over the last few years understand that I am a big fan of properly designed and…

• Weekly Review of Gold

  Published 13 February 2005 | viewed 4,788 times

  Weekly Review of Gold as of the Week Ending 2-12-2005 Precious Metal Bulls received a delightful Valentine's present this week with the stunning performance of…

• Alice in Bond-er-Land

  Published 04 December 2004 | viewed 3,540 times

  "Curiouser and Curiouser" is the pithy and wondrous expression we first meet up with in Lewis Carroll's classic, "Alice's Adventures in Wonderland". Young Alice's decision…

• Japan and China - The Wild Card in the Bond Market

  Published 01 December 2004 | viewed 4,506 times

  Last Thanksgiving evening, the bond and dollar markets were sent reeling by a report in a Chinese business newspaper quoting an advisor to the Chinese…