"No warning can save people determined to grow suddenly rich" - Lord Overstone
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Gold •678 days | 2,368.70 | +35.30 | +1.51% |
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Platinum •15 mins | 2,179.50 | +60.40 | +2.85% |
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WTI Crude •11 mins | 101.84 | -0.34 | -0.33% |
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Gasoline •15 mins | 3.683 | -0.014 | -0.39% |
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Ethanol •678 days | 2.161 | +0.000 | +0.00% |
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Silver •678 days | 30.82 | +1.16 | +3.92% |
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Silver • 678 days | 30.82 | +1.16 | +3.92% | |
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Copper • 678 days | 4.530 | +0.111 | +2.51% | |
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Brent Crude • 11 mins | 107.70 | -0.07 | -0.06% | |
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Natural Gas • 11 mins | 2.831 | -0.012 | -0.42% | |
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Heating Oil • 11 mins | 4.118 | -0.041 | -0.99% |
Markets / Other
The State of the Trend
There has been a lot of speculation lately about whether the 10.04.11 low of the SPX is the low for this downleg, to be followed by a multi-month rally, or…
This Past Week in Gold
Summary: Long term - on major buy signal. Short term - on sell signals. Risk management has prevented us from taking on new positions recently and kept us out of…
Tuesday
The markets are somewhat relieved to see policymakers now completely engaged. Yet I don't foresee an increasingly enlightened marketplace really buying into any notion that policymakers are getting their arms,…
Is the SP 500 About to Stage A Multi-Month Rally?
There is no easy answer to that question as the headline risk coming out of Europe over the weekend could have a dramatic impact on prices on Monday. Just as…
Understanding Fibonacci
The Fibonacci ratio can be an invaluable tool for calculating price retracements and projections in your analysis and trading. This excerpt from The Best Technical Indicators for Successful Trading explains…
Mervyn's Pringle Problem
Bank to Treasury: Forget credit easing. It's your debt that needs queasing... Unlike Pringles tasty potato snacks, quantitative easing doesn't come with a resealable lid. So the famous sales line…
As The Crow Flies
If you would like to outperform the indices in conditions such as these, check your dogma at the door and open your peripheral vision to your ego in one corner…
United States versus China Round Two
The Chinese government, in an effort to maximize exports and minimize US imports, prints their Yuan to buy dollars. This prevents their currency from rising and the dollar from falling.…
Hyper-Oversold Markets
The recent sharp selloffs in stocks and commodities have fueled an incessant drumbeat of pessimism plaguing the financial markets. Greece is doomed, Europe is fracturing, China is slowing, the US…
Can a Global Stimulus Stop Deflation?
The year 2011 has been a strange and unusual one on many counts. If anything, 2011 can be characterized as the first year since the credit crisis started in which…
