David Chapman

Industrial Alliance

Contributor since: 26 Feb 2010

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• The Gold is Going from the West to the East!

  Published 16 January 2014 | viewed 0 times

  Nick Laird's "Gold Charts 'R' Us" may be the best source of gold charts in the world (www.sharelynx.com). Nick has literally 1000's of pages and…

• Silver Bottoming?

  Published 10 January 2014 | viewed 0 times

  Larger Image - Charts created using Omega TradeStation 2000i. Chart data supplied by Dial Data Much has been written about gold but fewer talk about…

• 'Taper'? Not Yet!

  Published 12 December 2013 | viewed 0 times

  Much has been made of the 203 thousand jobs that were added in the November employment report in the US. It was the second month…

• Not All Boats Are Rising For The SP500!

  Published 05 December 2013 | viewed 0 times

  There is no doubt that the S&P 500 has made new all-time highs. So has the Dow Jones Industrials (DJI) and the Dow Jones Transportations…

• The Fed's Exploding Balance Sheet!

  Published 28 November 2013 | viewed 0 times

  Source: www.federalreserve.gov What is one to make of a balance sheet that has exploded from roughly $870 billion in 2007 to almost $4 trillion today.…

• Hard to Believe but Gold Remains in a Bull Market!

  Published 21 November 2013 | viewed 0 times

  Chart created using Omega TradeStation 2000i. Chart data supplied by Dial Data In case anyone is wondering, the long-term bull for gold remains intact. However,…

• The Fed and Rising Interest Rates!

  Published 14 November 2013 | viewed 0 times

  Charts created using Omega TradeStation 2000i. Chart data supplied by Dial Data What is one to make of the fact that in the US the…

• That Inflation Feeling!

  Published 07 November 2013 | viewed 0 times

  Looking at a picture of the S&P 500 on an inflation adjusted basis you get a different picture then what is being painted by the…

• The Roman Denarius And The US Dollar: Birds Of A Feather?

  Published 31 October 2013 | viewed 0 times

  Larger Image - Source: www.sharelynx.com Note: on the chart above, the listing of Trajan Decius between the emperors Titus (79-81 AD) and Hadrian (117-138 AD)…

• Houston, We (May) Have a Problem!

  Published 10 October 2013 | viewed 0 times

  Source: www.stlouisfed.org Above is a chart of the US's total public debt as a percent of GDP. As of Q2, the ratio was at 100.5%.…

• Gold Ratio Charts

  Published 03 October 2013 | viewed 0 times

  It was only recently that I looked at the Dow Jones Industrials/Gold ratio (DJI/Gold ratio). I wanted now to add another ratio that is often…

• Where Is The Money Growth?

  Published 26 September 2013 | viewed 0 times

  Source: www.shadowstats.com Since the beginning of the year, the US monetary base (MB) has increased $912 billion or just over 34%. The monetary base is…

• That Big Expanding Triangle!

  Published 19 September 2013 | viewed 0 times

  Charts created using Omega TradeStation 2000i. Chart data supplied by Dial Data As was expected, at least in this corner, the Fed has decided not…

• War And The Markets

  Published 12 September 2013 | viewed 0 times

  Wars tend to drive markets. If the war goes well (Gulf Wars 1 and 2, Kosovo), the markets tend to rally. If war is unexpected…

• Gold Silver Ratio

  Published 29 August 2013 | viewed 0 times

  Charts created using Omega TradeStation 2000i. Chart data supplied by Dial Data The Gold/Silver ratio is currently just under 58:1. Many have cited that the…

• The Bullhorn

  Published 23 August 2013 | viewed 0 times

  Larger Image* I confess. This was a new one on me. I had never heard of a "Bullhorn" pattern. I saw it mentioned first in…

• Dow Gold Ratio Revisited

  Published 15 August 2013 | viewed 0 times

  Charts created using Omega TradeStation 2000i.  Chart data supplied by Dial Data Gold in relation to the Dow Jones Industrials (DJI) has taken a bit…

• It's All About the Debt

  Published 08 August 2013 | viewed 0 times

  Source: www.macrotrends.net If anyone thought that the US's standard of living was all about how hard they worked, productivity gains and technology innovations to make…

• Stress in the Gold Market

  Published 25 July 2013 | viewed 0 times

  Charts created using Omega TradeStation 2000i. Chart data supplied by Dial Data With gold headed to hopefully its first good up month in the past…

• Inflation Takes a Bite!

  Published 18 July 2013 | viewed 0 times

  Larger Image - Source: www.sharelynx.com When it comes to the market indices, everyone focuses on the nominal level. The nominal price is the most visible…