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Lightening up on Gold

Posted in Gold, tagged , , on November 13, 2009 | Leave a Comment »

Closed out the gold trade today at $1,103 for a $33 move, caught out slightly by the rebound today after the strong move up in the US Dollar yesterday – which didn’t follow through, yet perhaps.
So a good trade but not that satisfying though interestingly Silver not following through on the move and other commodities [...]

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Gold reset

Posted in Uncategorized, tagged , , on November 1, 2009 | Leave a Comment »

 
A chart that shows that effectively, the appreciation in Gold price since the start of the decade has been reset via the creation of increased monetary base.

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Gold unfolds

Posted in Gold, Gold stocks, tagged , , , on September 12, 2009 | Leave a Comment »

This is truly a lovely looking chart to a technical trader like myself.  Notable features are the supportive 50 week moving average since 2005, breakouts at about $460, $730 – slightly rebuffed at the $850 area (old 1980 high resistance) then on to test $1,000 for the first time in 2008 and rolling over [...]

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Don’t mention the ‘D’ word

Posted in General commodities, General stocks, tagged , on August 16, 2009 | Leave a Comment »

Some markets have been ramping up quite nicely for some time, stock indices, commodity currencies included.  Theres been a nice bounce in stocks and it may well continue, but by historic measures it is reaching an extended point.
The S&P put/call ratio or $VIX is worth keeping an eye on as it is unlikely to fall [...]

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Gold/silver

Posted in General commodities, tagged on October 18, 2008 | Leave a Comment »

Thinking more downside maybe gold below $650 and silver around $7.50.

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Sunday Big Picture review Jan 2008

Posted in Big Picture Review, tagged , , , , , , , , , , on January 27, 2008 | Leave a Comment »

This is my first Sunday Big Picture review and I want to focus on the general state of the markets as we come to the end of a traumatic (for some) first month of 2008.
One of my favourite sites for stock market commentary is Zealllc.com as the chap who writes there (Adam Hamilton) lives what [...]

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You heard it here first…

Posted in General stocks, tagged , , on January 24, 2008 | Leave a Comment »

Commodities Higher Before Fed Decision
By STEVENSON JACOBS – 4 hours ago -associated press
NEW YORK (AP) — Commodities prices climbed broadly Thursday as expectations of another U.S. interest rate cut and rebounding global equities markets boosted investors’ appetite for gold, grains and other hard assets.

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