Markets

Aug 26, 2011 at 09:32

On August 3, we commented that recent breakdowns called for a defensive bias. Unfortunately, our concern about the market's intermediate-term outlook has become more acute in recent weeks as we…

Aug 26, 2011 at 09:20

The one constant recently has been volatility. Volatility can be a symptom of a number of different 'diseases,' and it is often hard to tell which malady is affecting the…

Aug 26, 2011 at 09:08

On 16 August President Obama announced that the U.S. Departments of Agriculture, Energy and Navy will invest up to $510 million by 2014 in partnership with the private sector to…

Aug 25, 2011 at 17:00

Time to review cycles on major currencies. Aussie, Looney, and Euro. The thing about cycles is that no one believes the market will turn until its too late.

Aug 25, 2011 at 12:20

Readers of Gold Stock Trades continue to express an abiding interest in the "poor man's gold" known as silver(SLV). Prominent among the questions they raise are: Quo Vadis Silver?

Aug 25, 2011 at 11:56

Within days of the Budget Control Act of 2011 (aka debt-ceiling agreement) and another Eurozone bailout, global stock markets went on a roller coaster ride amid worries about the US…

Aug 25, 2011 at 10:54

One month I wrote a piece titled "Markets Trapped in a Contracting Fibonacci Spiral - Point of Singularity in 2019". This was based upon the Fibonacci sequence, 1, 1, 2,…

Aug 25, 2011 at 10:19

After Wednesday's close, the Chicago Mercantile Exchange announced that they were raising the margin requirement for gold by 27%. This means the collateral they need to hold from traders buying…

Aug 25, 2011 at 10:02

After reaching an all-time high well above $1,900 earlier this week, gold is now about $200 lower, just two days later.

Aug 25, 2011 at 09:44

I had one of those days. You know how sometimes you're just humming along in your car in the zone... green lights at every intersection... slow-pokes in front of you…