Friday, January 04, 2019
Will the Futures Markets Save Gold? / Commodities / Gold & Silver 2019
By: Arkadiusz_Sieron
The extreme bearish CoT positions necessarily imply the turning point in the gold market. Myth or fact? We invite you to read our today’s article about Comex positioning and find out whether futures will save gold.
Usually, the Comex is seen by precious metals investors as the main public enemy. After all, it’s a marketplace for all these short futures which allegedly suppress the gold prices. But now, the gold permabulls use the CoT report as an bullish argument in the discussion on the future of gold.
Why? Let’s look at the chart below. As you can see, the speculators (non-commercials) maintain very small long position, while the commercial traders are unusually close to being neutral. Although both groups have moderated their bets recently, their positioning is still extreme.
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Friday, January 04, 2019
The Men Who Stare at Charts: Decades of Disinflation & 7 Years Post-Op Twist / Commodities / Gold & Silver 2019
By: Gary_Tanashian
I was going to look around to see if I could find a media article out there (complete with a TA trying to sound really important) that would be appropriate to be made fun of in our little Men Who Stare at Charts series. But then I decided to create my own chart, stare at it a little, post it and talk about it (hopefully not too self-importantly).
Introducing an all too busy long-term (monthly) view of the Gold/Silver ratio, along with some key nominal markets.
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Friday, January 04, 2019
What to do With Your Money in a Stocks Bear Market / Stock-Markets / Stocks Bear Market
By: Stephen_McBride
“Sell everything, I can’t take anymore!”
My stockbroker friend got a phone call from a hysterical client on Christmas Eve.
She was panicking over all the money she had lost in the market… and was demanding to sell her whole portfolio of stocks.
December, as you surely know, was horrendous for U.S. markets.
The S&P fell 10% for its worst December since 1931 during the Great Depression.
In fact, it was the S&P’s worst month overall since February 2009.
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Friday, January 04, 2019
Bitcoin: Another Bullish Attempt / Currencies / Bitcoin
By: Ryan_Wilday
Some time has passed since I wrote a more lengthy article, but not nearly as long a time as this gruelling bear market in cryptos - now 12 months long, and counting. So, in this article I’d like to rewind the clock a bit.
When we first saw our bull market top in cryptos, I did not fully expect a long bear market such as we’ve seen. While the March breakdown confirmed in my mind that the $3000 to $4700 zone would be visited again, I did not think it would take this long.
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Friday, January 04, 2019
Rising Cost of Moving Home / Personal_Finance / UK Housing
By: Submissions
It continues to be a time of uncertainty for the housing market with the ongoing Brexit saga. Therefore many people are choosing not to move home, when they usually would have done so. The cost of moving home also continues to rise as expected. Here we cover the breakdown of the average costs in 2018.
It is difficult to figure out an exact overall cost but based around the average house price in the UK, and the different services required for moving home, it is likely to add up to around £10,000. This of course would include the main areas of buying, selling and moving home. This is all based around the average house sold in the UK which in 2018 was £224,144 (according to the Property Price Index).
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Friday, January 04, 2019
Silver Price Trend Analysis 2019 / Commodities / Gold & Silver 2019
By: Nadeem_Walayat
This is the 3rd article in a series of 4 articles that concludes in a trend forecast for the Silver price 2019.
- Silver Price Trend Forecast 2018 Review
- Gold - Silver Ratio
- Silver Price Trend Analysis 2019
- Silver Price Trend Forecast Conclusion for 2019
The whole of this analysis was first been made available to Patrons who support my work.
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Friday, January 04, 2019
What to Know When Buying an Approved Used Land Rover 2019 / ConsumerWatch / Motoring
By: N_Walayat
Here's what you need to know when buying an approved used Land Rover in 2019. As my comprehensive mega review of after having owned and driven Land Rover's popular Discovery Sport's model in a HSE Black trim for over 1 year! Answering questions I should have asked a year earlier of what you would need to know before buying, after having put the car through its paces of what to expect under real world driving conditions, with the video covering the following topics -
Thursday, January 03, 2019
Gold Hedges Stock Market Falls In 2018 – Gains 2.7% In Euros and 3.8% In Pounds / Commodities / Gold and Silver 2018
By: GoldCore
– Gold acts as hedge in 2018 – up 2.7% and 3.8% in euros and pounds (see tables & charts)
– Stocks fall sharply – S&P500, FTSE & Euro Stoxx 5o fall 6.25%, 12.5% & 15% respectively
– Worst year for most international equity indices since 2008
– Sharp falls in economically sensitive commodities: oil (WTI), gasoline and lumber down 24.2%, 27% & 23.8% respectively
– Volatility surges as seen in VIX rising over 110%
– Volatility continues in 2019 as stocks globally fall with Apple falling 8% overnight
– Gold and silver likely to outperform risk assets again in 2019 (see Outlook 2019 Podcast)
Thursday, January 03, 2019
Will Technology Save Baby Boomers? / Politics / Demographics
By: Patrick_Watson
Baby Boomers get blamed for all kinds of problems.Much of the blame is unfair. But there is no doubt the first postwar generation brought a lot of changes—culturally, economically, and otherwise.
Last month, I helped John Mauldin write his Pyramids of Crisis letter. As a result of decisions made decades ago, there’s a rapidly growing proportion of older people in the US.
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Thursday, January 03, 2019
What are Stablecoins, Stable Coins or Stable Tokens about? / Currencies / BlockChain
By: Submissions
It is no secret that the crypto market has taken a serious hit this year in terms of the decline of crypto prices across the board - although fundamentally the crypto market is stronger than ever before, measured by the number of crypto projects that have made great progress in terms of product development, etc. - regardless of the percentage of failures (real or perceived).
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Thursday, January 03, 2019
Sri Lanka’s Short Term Outlook Is Hazy: Limited Pockets of Value Present / Economics / Asian Economies
By: Dylan_Waller
Sri Lanka 2019-2020 Outlook: Neutral Outlook for the Equity Market/Looking Elsewhere
The recent political crisis in Sri Lanka, coupled with its less favorable external position, has resulted in the depreciation of its currency and sell off in the stock market this year. Moody’s downgraded Sri Lanka’s sovereign credit to B2, while other countries funding Sri Lanka previously announced concerns due to the rising political risks. These issues all came at a time when Sri Lanka’s economy was beginning to rebound somewhat from the lows of 2017, though growth has still not been able to break 4% in recent quarters. Poor Q3 performance further exacerbates economic concern for the market, which should now not see a meaningful rebound until 2020. Sri Lanka’s external debt still remains a looming issue, and foreign exchange reserves have also been depleted somewhat in recent months compared to historical norms. FX reserves currently only cover around 3.8 months of imports and 54% of the country’s short term external debt. Notably, the increased political clarity seen in recent weeks will result in a gradual release of funding that was put on hold due to the political uncertainty, and paints a brighter economic picture. This would include funding from Japan, Millenium Challenge Corporation, and the IMF.
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Thursday, January 03, 2019
Stock Market Invstors Be Careful Going Into 2019 / Stock-Markets / Stock Markets 2019
By: Troy_Bombardia
With the start of a new year, some of these market studies are going to look at the stock market in 2018 and see what that implies for 2019.
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Thursday, January 03, 2019
Warning: The Stock Market Bounce Was a Head Fake / Stock-Markets / Stock Markets 2019
By: Graham_Summers
In December, Jerome Powell confirmed that he is going to implement a financial reset.
That reset will crash stocks.
We know this because the Fed didn’t even HINT at tapering its Quantitative Tightening program at this latest Fed FOMC despite stocks staging the worst December since the Great Depression.
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Thursday, January 03, 2019
Gold and Dow Jones Big Profits from Big Channels / Stock-Markets / Financial Markets 2019
By: readtheticker
Big profits come from big swings within the long term channels. Here are the big channels for gold (GLD) and Dow Jones (INDU). Readtheticker has price data for 100+ years for the important securities. The red arrows are points of interest. Gold holds support, demand present.
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Thursday, January 03, 2019
Money Metals 2019 Precious Metal Markets Outlook / Commodities / Gold & Silver 2019
By: MoneyMetals
Precious metals markets enter 2019 with an opportunity to shine. Several major bullish drivers are lining up to start the New Year – including technical, fundamental, monetary, and political drivers.
Before delving into each of them, let’s consider where we’ve been over the past 12 months.
To be frank, 2018 wasn’t a particularly bright year for gold and silver prices. Gold will finish with a slight loss; silver with a larger loss just shy of 10%.
Thursday, January 03, 2019
Britain's Tortured Commuters Hit With Rail Fare Hikes / ConsumerWatch / Travel & Holidays
By: Adnaan_Walayat
Britain's tortured commuters have been hit with their annual new year rail fare price hikes of typically 3.2% as an automatic reward for the rail companies for delivering another year of anxiety inducing bad rail services, one of daily delays and cancellations with the rail companies ready with a string of worthless excuses as they play pass the parcel between themselves and network rail.
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Wednesday, January 02, 2019
January 2019 Financial Markets Analysis and Forecasts / Stock-Markets / Financial Markets 2019
By: Nadeem_Walayat
The primary focus of my in-depth analysis for January will continue to be on the UK housing market and I will seek to forecast the prospects for the US housing market for at least 2019, seeking to replicate the accuracy of my last US housing market 3 year trend forecast https://youtu.be/82ncGGgbhAk.
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Wednesday, January 02, 2019
Stock Market What to Expect in the First 3~5 Months of 2019 / Stock-Markets / Stock Markets 2019
By: Chris_Vermeulen
As we near the end of 2018 and have recently witnessed an incredible price rotation in the US stock market, it is time for traders to take stock of the incredible opportunities that are set up for early 2019 and beyond. Our research team, at www.TheTechnicalTraders.com, has put together some truly incredible longer-term Adaptive Dynamic Learning (ADL) predictive price modeling system charts that will help you understand and identify incredible opportunities that should play out in early 2019. We know you will not find this type of analysis anywhere else on the planet and we know just how valuable these charts are too skilled traders. So, get ready for some incredible moves – as impossible as they may seem.
Let’s get started with Crude Oil. This Monthly chart of Crude showing our ADL price modeling system is clearly indicating the first few months of 2019 will include increased price volatility. One thing to pay attention to as we review these charts are the BLUE TRIANGLES, which is where we asked the ADL predictive modeling system for a detailed analysis, and the CYAN, YELLOW, and WHITE DASHED LINES, which is where the ADL system is showing us the highest probability price outcome into the future. On this chart, we can see that the predicted price levels of the past have been relatively close to where the price has closed on each monthly price bar. Going into the future, we can see 3~4 months of price volatility between $50 and $65 (roughly) with rotating higher/lower price objectives. We interpret this as greatly increased price volatility with the potential of supply events disrupting global expectations in oil. These could be intermediate-term price rotations that keep the price within our $50~65 price range, or they could be large range, very dramatic price rotations as a result of massive global supply events.
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Wednesday, January 02, 2019
Gold Looking Back, Looking Ahead 2019 – How Low Can Gold Price Go? / Commodities / Gold & Silver 2019
By: Kelsey_Williams
Each year we are treated to calls for gold’s next big move. We heard it last year; and the year before, too. And the year before that. It may not be a broken record , but it is the same song.
Predictions for gold’s price are more than guesses, but they might as well be just guesses. That’s unfortunate, because no small amount of time is spent trying to analyze gold. And it is time wasted.
The analysis is faulty. Not only is it faulty, it is sometimes overly complex. The complexity exacerbates the problem. How do you analyze something that cannot be analyzed?
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Wednesday, January 02, 2019
Gold - Silver Ratio 2019 / Commodities / Gold & Silver 2019
By: Nadeem_Walayat
This is the 2nd article in a series of 4 articles that concludes in a trend forecast for the Silver price 2019.
- Silver Price Trend Forecast 2018 Review
- Gold - Silver Ratio
- Silver Price Trend Analysis 2019
- Silver Price Trend Forecast Conclusion for 2019
The whole of this analysis has first been made available to Patrons who support my work.
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