Often we have preconceived notions about what affects the price of gold. Commonly it is believed that inflation is the primary factor in the price of gold but in an article entitled Is Gold really a good Inflation Hedge? I showed the history of Gold and how it really was a fear hedge rather than […]
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No market goes up without a correction. Speculators typically get ahead of themselves. They need to be slapped around a bit… tested… and tempered. Like a steel blade, they need to be hammered before they are ready for the final battle.
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You’ve undoubtedly read about the dramatic increase in demand for gold and silver bullion products since the big correction. Supply has gotten tight, premiums are rising, and inventory is hard to come by, especially for certain silver products. But it’s worse than you may know. Many of these reports come from the retail side of the business, including those from sovereign mints. This information is indicative but more important is the activity among the wholesalers. It’s possible the retail trade is just experiencing a giant bottleneck, which would come with a different set of conclusions than if behind the scenes the wholesale industry is seeing net sales.
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Looking at the factors forcing the price of gold down last week caused me to scratch my head a bit. Even though the price of gold was falling on the futures market anecdotal evidence showed that physical gold dealers were doing a booming business as sales volume was actually up by 50% last week as buyers of the physical metal were jumping on the opportunity to buy gold at a discount. So I wondered how could demand for physical gold be up while prices continued to fall? The answer it appears is that there is a major disconnect between physical gold vs. “paper gold”. In today’s article, Bud Conrad looks at the factors in this disconnect.
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The establishment is telling you that gold is done for, finished, kaput. It was all just a bubble in fear of the massive bailout. It’s had a good run for the last 12 years but now it is time to move on to “real investments” you know, those made out of paper like stocks and derivatives. In
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Generally markets slowly climb “a wall of worry” gaining a bit of ground and losing a bit until the final “blow-off top” where the market goes parabolic and the few remaining investors are fighting to get in on a “sure thing” but at this point the insiders are in the process of unloading their shares to
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Investors are quietly accumulating physical silver and silver ETF’s, while holdings in gold ETFs have plummeted. Meanwhile, the price of silver is drifting slightly lower. What does it mean and how can you profit? In today’s article Jeff Clark, Senior Precious Metals Analyst for Casey Research will look at these factors and where they are pointing.  ~Tim
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“Look at them, all these poor tragic people. The South sinking to its knees. It’ll never rise again.” Rhett Butler in Gone with the Wind. Â Just like Rhett Butler many people are beginning to believe Gold will never rise again. Given the profoundly bearish sentiment that has gripped so many participants in the resource
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Sometimes the herd is wrong… usually at the beginning and end of a new trend. In the middle as the trend and momentum is building the ordinary investor looks like a genius. But at the beginning of a trend only the bold like Warren Buffet are willing to take a chance and then at the
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Most precious-metals investors know that silver is more volatile than gold. But do they know just how big that difference really is? We thought it would be interesting to measure how much greater silver’s daily moves are—both in gains and declines—than gold. We documented the daily price movements for both metals, and then calculated the
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