Analysis Topic: Commodity Markets - Metals, Softs & Oils
The analysis published under this topic are as follows.
Monday, March 21, 2011
Why Gold Is No Longer An Effective U.S. Dollar Hedge / Commodities / Gold and Silver 2011
By: Bob_Kirtley
During the first nine years of this gold bull market, gold prices moved with a near perfect inverse relationship to the US dollar. Indeed, in the early years gold was only really moving up against the greenback, it was only after a few years that it began to appreciate against all currencies. The game plan was simple; the dollar is going down, so gold in USD terms is going up with some leverage factor. Gold worked well as both a USD hedge and as a tool to speculate on a USD decline. This is no longer the case.
Sunday, March 20, 2011
The Failure of Gold to Breakout Despite Compounding Crisis / Commodities / Gold and Silver 2011
By: Merv_Burak
So, why hasn’t gold shot up through the roof with all that’s been going on lately? It’s a good thing I’m a technician and don’t have to come up with a WHY, as I don’t have a clue why. Let’s just go ahead and see where we are and possibly which way the wind is blowing. But first, the Merv’s Venture 30 Index.
Saturday, March 19, 2011
Wheat, Sugar, Corn, Coffee, Orange Juice... Commodities Trading Where Next ? / Commodities / Commodities Trading
By: EWI
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Saturday, March 19, 2011
Reflections on the PPI and the Commodity Bubble / Commodities / Commodities Trading
By: Mike_Shedlock
Here is a pair of interesting charts showing the correlation between the Canadian and Australian dollar vs. the price of West Texas Intermediate crude.
Saturday, March 19, 2011
Crisis Creates Opportunity with Junior Gold Miners / Commodities / Gold and Silver 2011
By: The_Gold_Report
Good rocks and good people are the core building blocks of successful junior miners. Casey Research Senior Editor and Mining Strategist Louis James wants to see the mineralization close up and talk to geologists to verify the powerful upside potential that may be in these stocks, which are also vulnerable to staggering corrections. In this exclusive interview with The Gold Report, Louis reveals how to benefit from the combination of geopolitical and domestic uncertainty and growth potential in the ground.
Saturday, March 19, 2011
Significant Breakdown in Gold or a Short-term Bottom in Platinum? / Commodities / Gold and Silver 2011
By: Przemyslaw_Radomski
Japan is definitely the talk of interest in capital markets. The economic fallout in the recent days did not lag much behind nature’s destructive forces. The financial aftershocks gathered force as investors fled from assets deemed risky such as stocks, oil and gold (the latter is quite surprising). Amid worries that the crisis could slow down a global economy, investors were also spooked by a 16 percent drop in Japanese shares early during the week. Stock markets slumped around the world as investors sought what they believe to be safe havens, like United States dollars and Treasury Bonds. (We are constantly amazed that people deem these assets to be safe havens.) It is inevitable that most investors will feel the ripple effects of Japan’s disaster in their portfolio one way or another.
Saturday, March 19, 2011
Power and Profit for Gold and Silver Partisans / Commodities / Gold and Silver 2011
By: DeepCaster_LLC
“Nothing will unnerve the paper gold shorts more quickly and do more to undercut their confidence than to strip them of the real metal and force them to come up with more hard gold bullion to make good on deliveries. ‘Stand and Deliver or Go Home’ should be the rallying cry of the gold longs to the paper gold shorts." - Trader Dan Norcini
Friday, March 18, 2011
Silver in SPX Stock Market Selloffs / Commodities / Gold and Silver 2011
By: Zeal_LLC
Silver’s massive surge since late January has naturally made it wildly popular these days. But with the general-stock-market weakness gathering steam, silver traders are increasingly wondering if it could somehow spill into and affect silver. Market history not only shows it likely will, but the odds favor a rather severe downside impact.
Friday, March 18, 2011
Silver: Buy, Hold Or Sell? / Commodities / Gold and Silver 2011
By: Peter_Zihlmann
1980 to 2011: From bear to bull
Friday, March 18, 2011
Crude Oil Underpinned Despite Weakness as the Only Alternative to Nuclear Power / Commodities / Crude Oil
By: Seven_Days_Ahead
The recent rally in oil markets, driven by unrest in the Arab world, has paused in the aftermath of the Japanese natural disaster and possible and impending nuclear disaster. Traders are trying to assess the implications for energy demand as the world’s 3rd largest economy looks set to endure a recession.
Friday, March 18, 2011
Sugar Turns More Negative After 76.4% Resistance Test / Commodities / Commodities Trading
By: Seven_Days_Ahead
In our last Sugar Update we were looking at potential resistance from a long term Fibonacci level. So far the reaction around this has been negative and now there are further reasons to expect continued weakness.
Friday, March 18, 2011
We Love Silver But We Respect The Trends - Be Careful / Commodities / Gold and Silver 2011
By: Investmentscore.com
We believe in investing in long term bull market trends. To illustrate this point consider the following. In theory, with only two trades and two and a half long term trends, an individual could have turned only $10,000 into more than $47.6 million dollars.
Friday, March 18, 2011
Gold and Silver Correction Ending / Commodities / Gold and Silver 2011
By: Mike_Paulenoff
Although gold and silver have yet to show much, if any, upside volatility amidst the Japan crisis, the patterns carved out during the past several sessions strongly suggest corrections are ending and new uplegs about to emerge.
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Friday, March 18, 2011
Uranium Future Remains Intact Despite Japan Nuclear Meltdown / Commodities / Uranium
By: The_Energy_Report
Even in the face of problems at Japan's Fukushima Dai-Ichi nuclear reactor following a massive earthquake and tsunami, Jennings Capital Mining Analyst Alka Singh takes a positive long-term view on uranium prices. In this exclusive interview with The Energy Report, Alka explains why uranium demand will increase globally in the next two years and offers a few companies poised to capitalize on that need.
Friday, March 18, 2011
Oil Shale Stock Plays From Around the World / Commodities / Oil Companies
By: Keith_Schaefer
Dear OGIB Reader,
How much oil is there in newly economic shale oil deposits around the world?
We won’t know that for 50 years or more, but it’s not stopping energy companies from publicizing some extremely large prospective resource estimates – like, tens of billions of barrels of oil – with almost no data to back it up, and only one similar play on earth with any operating history. A prospective resource is an estimate of the amount of oil that might be the recoverable volume of oil in an area.
Thursday, March 17, 2011
The World’s Best Gold Experts: “Buy and Hold!” / Commodities / Gold and Silver 2011
By: Jeff_Clark
Jeff Clark, BIG GOLD
In January, Jeff Clark of Casey Research’s BIG GOLD advisory set out to get opinions from some of the smartest, most accomplished investors in the gold industry – where is the gold price going to go, how volatile will the markets be, what’s the outlook for precious metals stocks? Read on for some of the most insightful answers you’ll see anywhere…
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Thursday, March 17, 2011
Gold Breakout, Three Years Ago to the Day / Commodities / Gold and Silver 2011
By: Adrian_Ash
A quick reminder of recent history...
REMEMBER Bear Stearns? You know, that quaint little investment bank which blew up 6 months before Lehmans and a full 12 months before quantitative easing began.
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Thursday, March 17, 2011
Gold's Track Record / Commodities / Gold and Silver 2011
By: Douglas_French
Anyone who has bought gold for the entirety of this bull market is always looking for signs of a top. Not to sell — one doesn't get rid of their insurance — but just to wait until the insurance goes on sale.
A price steadily holding over $1,400 per ounce (until the Japanese quake) has put gold on the cover of a few magazines, along with constant hawking of the yellow metal on daytime Fox News.
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Thursday, March 17, 2011
The Once-a-Decade, 1200% Profit Trade Is Set Up / Commodities / Natural Gas
By: DailyWealth
Matt Badiali writes: Rick Rule is buying natural gas...
Longtime DailyWealth readers are familiar with our friend Rick Rule, founder of Global Resource Investments. Rick is one of smartest, most successful resource investors in the world. In one of the greatest "runs" in investment history, from 1998 to 2006, Rick turned $15 million into roughly $460 million (before fees) for his customers.
Thursday, March 17, 2011
"No Alternative" to Gold as Global "Tipping Point" Looms Amid Japanese Nuclear Crisis / Commodities / Gold and Silver 2011
By: Adrian_Ash
THE PRICE OF GOLD prices stalled just above $1400 per ounce for the second day running on Thursday, as crude oil rose sharply amid the near-meltdown at Japan's Fukushima nuclear reactors.
Major-economy government bonds slipped back as Western stock markets rallied.