Crude Oil Spikes, Spills but Up-Trend Remains Intact
WTI Crude Oil (CL) opened the week trading aggressively higher, reflexively spurred through $104/bbl as traders responded to derivative supply concerns in the wake...
Price Surge: The Rise Of Soft Commodities In Early 2014
Just when everyone had written off the commodity sector as being a serial underperformer for the last two years, it has resurged in 2014...
Charting The Gold and Silver Price Breakouts
This past week was important for Gold and Silver investors. After breaking out above multi-week downtrend lines, both precious metals saw strong follow through (i.e....
Crude Oil Set To Rally Past $100 Price Level?
Crude Oil prices have been operating like an offense that's consistently trying to set up the play-action pass. On two separate occasions, Crude Oil...
Investing ETFs To Watch For Global Deflationary Signals
The stock market has been pretty choppy to begin the New Year. Could this be a deflationary signal? Stocks have see-sawed up and down...
NFP Risk Off? Metals, US Treasuries, Yen On the Uptick
It's no secret that the much-maligned precious metals complex, belly-to-long end of the US Treasury yield curve and the carry trade-funding Japanese Yen have...
2014: See It Market Insights
From the very beginning, 2014 seems determined to assert its independence from 2013's steady and timeworn market themes. Active investors enter the New Year...
7 Defining Charts for 2014
With everyone offering up lists of 14 for 2014, I decided to follow a less ambitious but still mathematically justified route (2+0+1+4) with a...
Gold Investors: 4 Gold Charts To Watch Into 2014
As the Federal Reserve releases its final FOMC statement of 2013, the Gold market remains jittery. And that is for good reason: Equities have been in favor...
2014 Market Cycle Forecasts
As the annual market cycle is coming to a close, I have been feverishly working to analyze the upcoming cycle forecasts for key commodities...