Analysis Topic: Commodity Markets - Metals, Softs & Oils

The analysis published under this topic are as follows.

Saturday, April 14, 2018

Sugar Commodity Buying Levels Analysis / Commodities / Commodities Trading

By: Austin_Galt

Pattern – price is clearly in a downtrend…which I think is finished, for the time being anyway. Price made a little inside candle the day before last and the last day’s trading saw price breach the high of the previous day which is often a sign of a change in trend. Price will, obviously, need to trade further up to confirm this suspicion of mine.

PSAR – this has indicator has now turned bullish with the dots now underneath price. A good sign for the bulls but nothing to get too excited about.

Saturday, April 14, 2018

The Oil Trade May Be Coming Alive / Commodities / Crude Oil

By: WMA

In all asset classes, following a major bear market, prices tend to stumble along at depressed levels – sometimes for years. Negative sentiment permeates across all types of investors, from the short-term traders to long-term retail investors. Once everyone is convinced that the paradigm has changed for the asset and prices at depressed levels are the “new normal”, the seeds will have been sown for the next bull market.

Friday, April 13, 2018

Will Debt Leverage Leverage Gold? / Commodities / Gold and Silver 2018

By: Arkadiusz_Sieron

Attention, please! The leverage in the stock market has been recently rising. As one can see in the chart below, the stock market margin debt surged more than $113 billion in 2017, one of the largest annual surges. Moreover, it was the ninth annual increase in a row.

Friday, April 13, 2018

Coup d'État That May Shake the Gold World / Commodities / Gold and Silver 2018

By: Arkadiusz_Sieron

Everyone focuses now on the chemical attack in Syria. Meanwhile, the most important turnover in the world remains mostly unnoticed. But we’re on guard. Let’s read our analysis of the key revolution of 2018 and find out the implications for the gold market.

Hawks Take Over the Fed
Are we going to write about Syria? North Korea? China? No. You already know everything you should about these geopolitical threats. The media bomb you with news about bombings, trade wars, nuclear trials, etc. But the key upheaval is taking place in silence, in the cool marble rooms of the Federal Reserve Banks. ‘The Hawkish Revolution’ – this is how the future historians will call it.

Friday, April 13, 2018

How I Own My Gold / Commodities / Gold and Silver 2018

By: Axel_Merk

Those who own gold often argue how to best own it. I encourage anyone holding gold to assess the pros and cons of different choices of gold ownership to make an educated rather than emotional decision. Let me explain.

I commissioned the above cartoon back in 2011 in response to an assertion by CNBC’s Steve Liesman no one would accept a gold coin in a grocery store. My take was that, hell, if I offered a gold coin, I’m pretty sure I would find a taker if I wanted to exchange it for some groceries.

Thursday, April 12, 2018

Rise Of The New Commodities Bull Market? / Commodities / Commodities Trading

By: Chris_Vermeulen

New massive breakout patterns have been setting up in the markets for months and our research team at the Wealth Building Newsletter has been quietly watching these setups – waiting for the right time to alert our followers of these exceptional opportunities.  Today, we are announcing our research and triggers to all of our followers so you can attempt for profit from our hard work and see just how critical our “Adaptive Learning Tools” are for success.

We believe the following charts clearly show just how important these breakout patterns are for traders.  This first chart shows the Stage 1 Basing formation that we’ve been following for quite a while with our Adaptive Dynamic Learning Cycles.  These cycle projections help us to determine the future potential of any markets as well as help us to understand historical and current price cycle rotations.

Thursday, April 12, 2018

Gold Hedging From Hedge Funds & Traders Continues to Surge / Commodities / Gold and Silver 2018

By: GoldSilver

It’s a relatively quiet trend, but the most active of investors—hedge funds and traders—are aggressively putting gold hedges in place.

It shouldn’t really be a surprise, given the recent spike in volatility in the stock market. It hasn’t been reported much in the mainstream, but an increasing number of people who make their living from investing are betting on gold.

Tuesday, April 10, 2018

Gold Cycle is Up / Commodities / Gold and Silver 2018

By: The_Gold_Report

Technical analyst Jack Chan updates the gold and silver charts and finds buy signals for both gold and silver.

Our proprietary cycle indicator is up.

Tuesday, April 10, 2018

Gold Holding Its Own / Commodities / Gold and Silver 2018

By: Richard_Mills

As a general rule, the most successful man in life is the man who has the best information
What the heck is going on with gold? The past few weeks have seen global equities falling amid a broad selloff in tech stocks, but the traditional safe haven metal has barely budged, floating along in a fairly tight range of between around $1320 and $1330 an ounce with the exception of a spike to $1354 on March 26 and a slip on March 16 and 20. See the tech stock-dominant Nasdaq one-month chart versus one-month gold.

Tuesday, April 10, 2018

David Morgan: Silver Market Set Up Is “Best I’ve Seen for a Very Long Time” / Commodities / Gold and Silver 2018

By: MoneyMetals

Mike Gleason: It is my privilege now to welcome in our good friend David Morgan of The Morgan Reports. David it's always a real pleasure to have you on and welcome back, how are you sir?

David Morgan: Mike I'm doing well, thank you very much for having me on the show.

Mike Gleason: Well David we've seen a tremendously tight trading range in the metals markets over the last several months, especially in silver, and before we get into some other topics with you today I wanted to get your thoughts on what these prolonged periods of a range trade or a base building market generally means for us moving forward. When you see this type of thing on the charts for one of the precious metals or for some other commodity for that matter, I know you cover a lot of different markets, does it mean that we're likely to see a big move one way or the other? Is it a bullish indicator that we're building a major base of support from which to launch, what do you think?

Monday, April 09, 2018

Which is Right: Gold or Real Rates? / Commodities / Gold and Silver 2018

By: Jordan_Roy_Byrne

Readers know that I have beaten this drum all too often. Gold’s major fundamental driver is declining or negative real rates. There is a strong inverse correlation because Gold is money. That’s what JP Morgan said and he’s far more qualified to understand than quotable celebrities like Mark Cuban. But I digress. When real rates are increasing or strongly positive (during most of the 1980s and 1990s and 2011 through 2015) Gold performs poorly because one can earn a real return on their money unlike with Gold. However, when real rates decrease and particularly when they are negative, Gold flourishes. That being said, right now there is an interesting development. Real rates have increased over the past year but Gold has held steady. Reviewing recent history can help us answer which is right. 

Monday, April 09, 2018

The Beautiful Chartology of SLV Silver ETF / Commodities / Gold and Silver 2018

By: Rambus_Chartology

SLV along with the PM stocks have been under performing gold in a pretty significant way. Normally you would like to see the PM stocks outperforming gold on the front end of a bull market similar to what we saw back in the beginning of the 2000 bull market in the PM complex. So far that hasn’t been the case.

Below is a weekly chart for SLV we’ve been following for a long time now as it has been chopping out the nearly four year diamond trading range. The first thing that would get my attention would be if the price action could takeout the top rail of the seven point diamond which is technically a reversal pattern at the moment. A touch of the bottom rail would complete the 8th reversal point which would be a consolidation pattern to the downside if the bottom rail is broken. It wouldn’t hurt to see SLV trade back above the 65 week ema if one is a bull.

Monday, April 09, 2018

Gold to Rally Due to Increased Stock Market Volatility? Really?! / Commodities / Gold and Silver 2018

By: P_Radomski_CFA

We were recently asked if the price of gold is likely to rally because of the increased volatility in stocks. This seems believable at the first sight, as gold is seen as a safe-haven asset and thus people could be buying it when the stock market’s movement becomes chaotic, scary and/or unpredictable.

So, the stock market’s volatile decline in the recent days is likely to become the catalyst for gold’s breakout above the $1,350 - $1,400 trading range, right?

Monday, April 09, 2018

Donald Trump's False Bravado Trade War, Implications for Gold Market / Commodities / Gold and Silver 2018

By: The_Gold_Report

Precious metals expert Michael Ballanger discusses Donald Trump's trade war with China and the implications for the gold market. When I played pro hockey in Richmond, Virgina, it was during the era of "Slapshot!" and the Broad Street Bullies when gooning (fighting) was fashionable and an integral part of the sport. Stocking your team with two-or three enforcers meant that the finesse players could sail around the ice doing pirouettes and triple axles and dipsy-doodles without the fear of some 250-lb lumberjack from northern Quebec impaling them. I learned quickly from our coach, the legendary Forbes Kennedy (one of the toughest NHL players ever) that the way to avoid getting into a donnybrook with someone you really did not wish to engage was "Don't fookin' look at 'em!" because if they caught your eye and were staring you down, you then were forced to drop the gloves. I made a habit of staring into the eyes of all the finesse players and upon the skates of the goons. Of course, there was the odd occasion I forgot and wound up holding on for dear life when one of the Neanderthals tricked me up and forced me to drop 'em but for the most part, old "Forbie" was absolutely spot on and you could stay safe if you avoided the glaring, maniacal eyes of the Gilles Bilodeaus and Billy Goldthorpes of the world but ONLY if you just "didn't fookin' look at 'em."

Saturday, April 07, 2018

New Silver Bull Market Coming / Commodities / Gold and Silver 2018

By: Zeal_LLC

Silver has been dead money over the past year or so, relentlessly grinding sideways to lower.  That weak price action has naturally left this classic alternative investment deeply out of favor.  Silver is extremely undervalued relative to gold, while speculators’ silver-futures positions are extraordinarily bearish.  All this has created the perfect breeding ground to birth a major new silver bull market, which could erupt anytime.

Silver’s price behavior is unusual, making it a challenging investment psychologically.  Most of the time silver is maddeningly boring, drifting listlessly for months or sometimes years on end.  So the vast majority of investors abandon it and move on, which is exactly what’s happened since late 2016.  There’s so little interest in silver these days that even traditional primary silver miners are actively diversifying into gold!

Saturday, April 07, 2018

21 Trillion Reasons to Own Gold / Commodities / Gold and Silver 2018

By: Arkadiusz_Sieron

Do you know how much a trillion is (we refer here to the short scale)? A billion is hard enough to imagine, much less a trillion. But let’s try. We can write it as 1,000,000,000,000 – that’s a 1 with twelve zeroes. In other words it’s million million, or ten to the twelfth (1012). One trillion of dollars in $100 dollar bills would stack up to about 631 miles high. Given that the average annual income in the U.S. is around $50,000, Joe Schmo would have to save 20 million of years (and not consuming at all) to stockpile a trillion dollars. Sounds enormous, right? So now multiply it by 21 and you will obtain the new level of the U.S. federal debt (here you can watch a movie visualizing the U.S. debt of $20 trillion).

Thursday, April 05, 2018

As Volatility Spikes, Here’s What Could Be Ahead for Gold and Silver / Commodities / Gold and Silver 2018

By: GoldSilver

The shift from low to high volatility in the markets is on. And almost by default, that’ll include gold and silver, since they’re inversely correlated to stock markets most of the time.

We’ve already seen this at work. The S&P 500 fell 2.2% on April 2, and in response, gold rose 1.2% and silver 1.6%.

Thursday, April 05, 2018

Gold Price Set For Sparkling Rally / Commodities / Gold and Silver 2018

By: Austin_Galt

Latest Price – $1340.20

Pattern – price looks to have been consolidating these past few months and as price rose into this consolidation pattern it should leave the same way – up. Breaking below the low of this consolidation phase at $1303 could be one area to place stops.

Bollinger Bands – price found support three separate times at the lower band. I doubt there will be a fourth time and price looks to have recently found support at the middle band.

Wednesday, April 04, 2018

Crude Oil Price Bears - Stay the Course / Commodities / Crude Oil

By: Nadia_Simmons

What a day! The beginning of the new quarter, the new month and the new week was undoubtedly the triumph of oil bears. Thanks to their attack crude oil lost almost 3% in one day, which was the biggest decline since weeks. What impact did this drop have on the short-term outlook? Where are the nearest supports? For these and other questions you will find answers in today's alert.

Wednesday, April 04, 2018

Gold Outperforms Stocks In Q1, 2018 / Commodities / Gold and Silver Stocks 2018

By: GoldCore

– Gold signs off Q1 2018 with best run since 2011
– Gold price supported by safe haven demand, interest-rate concerns and inflation
– Trade wars and concerns over equity market have sent investors towards gold
– ETF holdings highest in nearly a decade
– Goldman Sachs: ‘The dislocation between the gold prices and U.S. rates is here to stay’